STATUTORY RULES.
1964. No. 161.
REGULATION UNDER THE PUBLIC SERVICE ACT 1922-1964.*
THE PUBLIC SERVICE BOARD, acting in pursuance and exercise of the authority conferred upon it by the Public Service Act 1922-1964, hereby makes, subject to the approval of the Governor-General, the following Regulation.
Dated this eighteenth day of December, 1964.
K. E. GRAINGER
Commissioner.
J. E. COLLINGS
Commissioner.
I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby approve the following Regulation.
Dated this twenty-fourth day of December, 1964.
DE L’ISLE
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
J. G. GORTON
Minister of State for Works for and on behalf of the Prime Minister.
Amendment of the Public Service Regulations.†
Regulation 47 of the Public Service Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—
“47.—(1.) Where—
Reduction of recreation leave on account of other absences.
(a) an officer has, in a prescribed period, been absent from duty on leave of absence without pay, other than leave of absence without pay granted on account of illness, for more than twenty-six working days; and
(b) the period during which the officer was so absent does not, by reason of the operation of section 72aa of the Act, form part of the officer’s period of service under the Act for the purposes of the grant of recreation leave,
the period of leave of absence for recreation which may be granted to the
* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 29th December, 1964.
† Statutory Rules 1935, No. 18, as amended to date. For previous amendments of the Public Service Regulations, see footnote † to Statutory Rules 1964, No. 18, and see also Statutory Rules 1964, Nos. 18, 40, 45, 46, 49, 53, 72, 88, 96, 109, 110, 118, 120, 131, 140, 147, 150 and 151.
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officer in respect of the next year after the expiration of that prescribed period shall be reduced by one-twelfth of the period of leave of absence that the officer may be granted under section 68 of the Act for each twenty-six working days on which the officer has been absent from duty during that prescribed period.
“(2.) Where an officer has, in a prescribed period, been absent from duty on leave granted under section 73 of the Act for more than fifty-one working days, the period of leave of absence for recreation that may be granted to the officer in respect of the next year after the expiration of that prescribed period shall, subject to this regulation, be reduced by one-twelfth of the period of leave of absence that may be granted to the officer under sub-section (1.) or sub-section (4.), as the case may be, of section 68 of the Act for each twenty-six working days, other than the first twenty-six working days, on which the officer has been absent from duty during that prescribed period.
“(3.) Where, by reason of the operation of paragraph (b) of sub-section (4.) of section 73 of the Commonwealth Public Service Act 1922 or of that Act as amended from time to time before the commencement of the Public Service Act (No. 2) 1951—
(a) an officer was not granted leave of absence for recreation in respect of any year; or
(b) a period of leave of absence for recreation was regarded as part of the period of leave of absence under that section,
and that officer is granted leave of absence under section 73 of the Public Service Act 1922-1964, the period for which the officer is absent on that last-mentioned leave of absence shall not be taken into account for the purposes of sub-regulation (2.) of this regulation.
“(4.) Sub-regulation (2.) of this regulation shall not operate, in relation to the absence from duty of an officer in a prescribed period by reason of his having been granted leave of absence under section 73 of the Act, so as to result in any reduction being made in the period of recreation leave that may be granted to the officer in respect of the year next succeeding that prescribed period which would, when added to reductions previously made, exceed the period of recreation leave that may be granted to the officer in that next succeeding year.
“(5.) Sub-regulation (2.) of this regulation shall not operate, in relation to the absence from duty of an officer in the prescribed period that commenced on the first day of January, 1964, by reason of his having been granted leave of absence under section 73 of the Act if a reduction in the period of the officer’s recreation leave has been made under regulation 47 of these Regulations as in force immediately before the commencement of this regulation in respect of that absence.
“(6.) For the purposes of this regulation, each of the following periods is a prescribed period—
(a) in the case of an officer who has completed only one year of service—the first year of the officer’s service;
(b) in the case of an officer who has served until the thirty-first day of December next succeeding the day on which he completed his first year of service, but has not completed two
years of service—the period that commenced on the day immediately after the officer completed his first year of service and ended on the next succeeding thirty-first day of December; and
(c) in any other case—the period of twelve months commencing on the first day of January in each year.”.
By Authority: A. J. Arthur, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.