Commonwealth Public Service Regulations (Amendment)

STATUTORY RULES.

1927. No. 67.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE COMMONWEALTH PUBLIC SERVICE ACT 1922-1924.

THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS appointed under the Commonwealth Public Service Act 1923-1924, in pursuance and exercise of the authority conferred upon it by the said Act, and subject to the approval of the Governor-General, hereby makes the following amondments of the Regulations, such amendments to come into operation forthwith.

Dated this twenty-seventh day of June, 1927.

Approved in Executive Council this sixth day of July 1927.

(Sgd.) STONEHAVEN

Governor–General.

By His Excellency’s Command.

for Prime Minister.

Amendments of Commonwealth Public Service Regulations.

(Statutory Rules 1926, No. 212, as amended to this date).

Allowance to Telegraph Messengers for performance of certain duties.

1. The following regulation is inserted before regulation 88:—

87a. Subject to the approval of the Board, a Telegraph Messenger who is employed for the greater portion of his time on duties of a Postman, or on work of corresponding character and importance, may while performing such duties, be granted an allowance, not exceeding such amount as raises his total remuneration to that of a Postman of similar age.

C.7622.—Price 3d.

2. Regulation 104 is amended—

(a) by inserting in the table in sub-regulation (1), after the office “Accountant, Federal Capital Commission,” the following particulars:—

(b) by omitting from the third column of the table in sub-regulation (1), opposite the office “Crown Solicitor,” the figures “1,200,” and inserting in their stead the figures “1,250.”

(c) by inserting in the table in sub-regulation (1), after the office “Director, Serum Laboratories,” the following particulars:—

3. Regulation 105a is amended by omitting paragraph (b).

4. Regulation 105b is amended by inserting in the table after the office of Clerk, Administrative and Accounts Branch, Department of Works and Railways, the following particulars:—

5. Regulation 105c is amended by omitting from sub-regulation (2) the words “Smoky Bay” and inserting in their stead the word “Cook.”

6. Regulation 106 is amended:—

(a) by inserting in Table “E,” after the office “Assistant (Correspondence),” the following particulars:—

(b) by inserting in Table “F,” before the office “Checker (Female), Loans,” the following particulars:—

(c) by adding at the end of Table “F,” the following particulars:—

(d) by inserting in Table “G,” after the office “Locker (Excise),” the following particulars:—

(e) by inserting in Table “H,” after the office “Assistant (Staff and Industrial),” the following particulars:—

(f) by inserting in Table “H,” after the office “Armourer, Chief, Western Australia,” the following particulars:—

(g) by inserting in Table “H,” after the office “Assistant (Female), Western Australia,” the following particulars:—

(h) by inserting in Table “I,” after the office “Stationer, Stores Branch, the following particulars:—

(i) by omitting from the fifth column of Table “I,” opposite the office “Telegraph Messenger,” the following words:—

“Allowance at the rate of £8 per annum may be paid to officers under 21 years of age upon qualifying in telegraphy at the rate of twenty words a minute.”

and inserting in their stead the following words:—

“Allowance at the rate of £8 per annum may be paid to officers under 21 years of age upon passing such tests in telegraphy as are approved by the Board.”

Salaries of Fourth Division officers previously temporarily employed.

7. After regulation 106a the following regulation is inserted:—

106b. (1) The following conditions shall apply to any person temporarily employed at the date of his permanent appointment to a Fourth Division position which has status similar to that of his temporary position:—

(a) If he is in receipt of pay above the minimum rate prescribed for a permanent officer of like position, he shall be appointed without diminution of pay, and shall, if not in receipt of the maximum salary of his position, be eligible for incremental advancement, subject to the usual conditions governing the granting of increments, twelve months from the date of receipt of pay drawn as a temporary employee at the time of his permanent appointment; and

(b) If he is in receipt of the minimum salary of the position, he shall be eligible for incremental advancement, subject to the usual conditions governing the granting of increments, on the following basis:—

(i) If he has had less than twelve months’ temporary service—increment to be granted twelve months from the date of his permanent appointment; and

(ii) If he has had twelve months’ temporary service but less than two years’ temporary service—increment to be granted from the date of completion of two years’ combined temporary and permanent service.

(2) Where a temporary employee is permanently appointed to a position in the Fourth Division and at the time of his permanent appointment or at any time during his temporary service he was employed in a position higher than that to which he is permanently appointed, his salary on appointment and incremental advancement shall be determined as if the whole of his continuous temporary service had been in the position to which he is appointed.

(3) The salary paid from 1st July, 1926, of any officer appointed to the permanent staff after 1st January, 1924, and prior to 1st July, 1926, shall be adjusted to a rate not less than that which would have been payable on 1st July, 1926, if the foregoing conditions had been in operation at the time of his permanent appointment.

(4) The salary paid from the date of appointment of any officer appointed to the permanent staff after 1st July, 1926, and prior to the date of this regulation, shall be adjusted, to a rate which would have been payable upon appointment if the foregoing conditions had been in operation at the time of his permanent appointment.

(5) No increase shall be granted under this regulation which would place an officer in a more favorable position than if the whole of his service had been on the permanent staff.

8. Regulation 119 is amended by omitting the words “the next succeeding regulation,” and inserting in their stead the word and figures “regulation 120.”

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