STATUTORY RULES.
1904. No. 48.
PROPOSED AMENDMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE REGULATION No. 199.
Schedule.
Regulation No. 199 made under the provisions of the Commonwealth Public Service Act 1902 reads as follows:—
“Every applicant for appointment as telegraph messenger must be between the ages of thirteen and fifteen years at date of examination. Every applicant nominated for appointment as telegraph messenger must be not less than thirteen nor more than fifteen years of age at his last birthday previous to appointment, and must cease to be so employed when he attains the age of eighteen years, unless in the meantime he has been transferred or promoted to some other position in the service for which he has qualified by passing the required examination.”
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The Governor-General has approved of the above Regulation being amended by the addition of the following words, such amended Regulation to come into operation forthwith (vide Commonwealth Gazette of 20th August, 1904) as a Provisional Regulation:—
“Provided, however, that no person shall be appointed as telegraph messenger in the State of Western Australia under the age of fourteen years.”
By Authority: Robt. S. Brain, Government Printer, Melbourne.
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