STATUTORY RULES.
1961. No. 69.
REGULATIONS UNDER THE PUBLIC SERVICE ACT 1922-1960.*
THE PUBLIC SERVICE BOARD, acting in pursuance and exercise of the authority conferred upon it by the Public Service Act 1922-1960, hereby makes, subject to the approval of the Governor-General, the following Regulations.
Dated this tenth day of May, 1961.
F. H. WHEELER
Chairman.
K. E. GRAINGER
Commissioner.
J. E. COLLINGS
Commissioner.
I, The Administrator of the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby approve the following Regulations.
Dated this eleventh day of May, 1961.
DALLAS BROOKS
Administrator.
By His Excellency’s Command,
A. R. DOWNER
for Prime Minister.
Amendments of the Public Service Regulations.†
Recreation leave for officers serving in isolated districts, &c.
1. Regulation 49 of the Public Service Regulations is amended—
(a) by omitting sub-regulation (1a.);
(b) by inserting in sub-regulation (2.), after the word “absence”, the words “, exclusive of Sundays,”;
* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 18th May, 1961.
† Statutory Rules 1935, No. 18, as amended to date. For previous amendments of the Public Service Regulations see footnote † to Statutory Rules 1961, No. 35, and see also Statutory Rules 1961, No. 68.
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(c) by omitting sub-regulation (3.) and inserting in its stead the following sub-regulations:—
“(3.) Where, in a year, the service of an officer is, or includes, service in an isolated district or overseas, the maximum period of leave of absence for recreation that may be granted to the officer in that year is, subject to this regulation, eighteen days, exclusive of Sundays and holidays.
“(3a.) Where, in a year, the service of an officer is, or includes, service in a prescribed isolated district or a prescribed place overseas, the maximum period of leave of absence for recreation that may be granted to the officer in that year apart from this sub-regulation is, subject to the succeeding provisions of this regulation, increased by such period in respect of each month of his service in that district or place in that year as is, for the time being, determined by the Board for the purposes of this sub-regulation in relation to service in that district or place.
“(3b.) A determination of the Board under the last preceding sub-regulation may require, as a condition of its application to an officer included in a particular category of officers, completion of a specified period of service in a district or place to which it relates.
“(3c.) Nothing in sub-regulation (3a.) of this regulation authorizes the granting to an officer of leave of absence for recreation exceeding thirty days, exclusive of Sundays and holidays, in a year.”;
(d) by omitting from sub-regulation (5.) the words “remote localities” and inserting in their stead the words “isolated districts”; and
(e) by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulation:—
“(6.) In this regulation—
‘overseas’ has the same meaning as in section 8b of the Act;
‘prescribed isolated district’ means an isolated district for the time being determined by the Board to be a prescribed isolated district for the purposes of sub-regulation (3a.) of this regulation;
‘prescribed place overseas’ means a place overseas for the time being determined by the Board to be a prescribed place overseas for the purposes of sub-regulation (3a.) of this regulation.”.
Reimbursement of fares where officer stationed in isolated district.
2. Regulation 98 of the Public Service Regulations is amended—
(a) by omitting from sub-regulation (1.) the words “locality included in a determination made by the Board for the purposes of sub-regulation (3.) of regulation 49” and inserting in their stead the words “prescribed isolated district as defined by sub-regulation (6.) of regulation 49”;
(b) by omitting from sub-regulation (1.) the words “that locality” and inserting in their stead the words “that district”;
(c) by omitting from sub-regulation (7a.) the words “at a locality included in a determination of the Board under sub-regulation (3.) of regulation 49” and inserting in their stead the words “in a prescribed isolated district as defined by sub-regulation (6.) of regulation 49”;
(d) by omitting from sub-regulation (8.) the words “at, a locality included in a determination of the Board under sub-regulation (3.) of regulation 49” and inserting in their stead the words “in, a prescribed isolated district as defined by sub-regulation (6.) of regulation 49”; and
(e) by omitting from sub-regulation (8.) the words “the locality” and inserting in their stead the words “the district”.
3. After regulation 137 of the Public Service Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—
Additional recreation leave for employees employed in isolated districts.
“137a.—(1.) Where an employee referred to in paragraph (a) of sub-regulation (1.) of the last preceding regulation is, in a year, employed in a prescribed isolated district, the maximum period of leave of absence for recreation that may be granted to him in that year apart from this regulation is increased by such period in respect of each month of his employment in that district in that year as is, for the time being, determined by the Board for the purposes of this regulation in relation to employment in that district.
“(2.) A determination of the Board under the last preceding sub-regulation may require, as a condition of its application to an employee included in a particular category of employees, completion of a specified period of employment in a district to which it relates.
“(3.) In this regulation, ‘prescribed isolated district’ means an isolated district for the time being determined by the Board to be a prescribed isolated district for the purposes of this regulation.”.
By Authority: A. J. Arthur, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.