Commonwealth Public Service Regulations (Amendment)

STATUTORY RULES.

1924. No. 141.

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE COMMONWEALTH PUBLIC SERVICE ACT 1922 (THIRTEENTH AMENDMENT, 1924).

THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS appointed under the Commonwealth Public Service Act 1922, in pursuance and exercise of the authority conferred upon it by the said Act, and subject to the approval of the Governor-General, hereby make the following amendment of the Regulations, such amendment to come into operation as from the 9th October, 1924.

Dated this tenth day of September, 1924.

Approved in Executive Council this seventeenth day of September, 1924.

STRADBROKE,

Deputy of the Governor-General,

By His Excellency’s Command,

L.l. ATKINSON,

for Prime Minister.

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Amendment of Commonwealth Public Service Regulations.

(Statutory Rules 1923, No. 93, as amended to this date.)

Regulation 79 is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

“79. (1) Officers regularly employed on relieving duties shall, where employed at a temporary station for less than one week, be paid the scale of allowances provided by regulation 75, but otherwise shall, subject to the provisions of sub-regulation (4) of regulation 75, be granted an allowance on the following scale.—

(2) An officer temporarily transferred to perform duty at another station or stations involving absence from home for a period of not less than six weeks shall, subject to the provisions of sub-regulation (4) of regulation 75, be paid an allowance as prescribed in the last preceding sub-regulation, provided—

(a) that the officer is informed in writing before leaving his head-quarters of the allowance to be paid;

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(b) that a period of not less than three weeks elapses between the time of an officer’s first arrival in, and time of ultimate departure from, any town;

(c) that where an officer is required to leave his temporary head-quarters for a period of not more than one week and has to continue payment for board and lodging at his temporary head-quarters during his absence, he shall be paid travelling allowance during absence as provided by sub-regulation (1) of regulation 75 in addition to the allowance under this regulation; and

(d) that this regulation shall not apply to cases of officers temporarily required to perform duty in a capital city.”

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