EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
STATUTORY RULES 1984 NO. 141
PUBLIC SERVICE REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT)
Issued with the Authority of the Public Service Board
Sub-section 97(1) of the Public Service Act 1922 (‘the Act’) provides that the Public Service Board may, with the approval of the Governor-General, make regulations prescribing all matters which are required or permitted to be prescribed, for carrying out or giving effect to the Act.
The statutory rules have amended provisions in the Public Service Regulations (‘the Regulations’) which make reference to the Public Service (Salaries) Regulations. The Public Service (Salaries) Regulations were repealed on the day on which the statutory rules came into operation. Accordingly, the statutory rules have made the necessary consequential amendments to regulations 62 and 109CA of the Regulations.
The statutory rules have also amended sub-regulation 33E (1) of the Regulations by inserting a new provision. Regulation 33E provides a review mechanism which may be used by an officer to seek reviews of specified decisions affecting the officer. The new provision in sub-regulation 33E (1) added two further categories of decisions which may be reviewed under the regulation 33E mechanism. These categories are: (a) a decision of the Permanent Head to defer an increment to which an officer would otherwise have been entitled; and (b) decisions of the Permanent Head to refuse an application by an officer for the grant of a subsequent increment that would have been payable to the officer but for the deferment. Further, the statutory rules have amended sub-regulation 33E(4) to make a consequential amendment.
Finally, the proposed statutory rules have repealed sub-regulations 87(1), (13), (14) and (15) of the Regulations. The matters provided for in these sub-regulations are now provided for in a Public Service Board determination under section 82D of the Act. This determination came into operation on the day the sub-regulations were repealed.