Statutory Rules
1977 No. 259
REGULATION UNDER THE PUBLIC SERVICE ACT 1922*
THE PUBLIC SERVICE BOARD, acting in pursuance and exercise of the authority conferred upon it by the Public Service Act 1922, hereby makes, subject to the approval of the Governor-General, the following Regulation.
Dated this fourteenth day of December 1977.
K. SHANN
Chairman
J. C. TAYLOR
Commissioner
R. J. YOUNG
Commissioner
I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby approve the following Regulation.
Dated this sixteenth day of December 1977.
ZELMAN COWEN
Governor-General
By His Excellency’s Command,
A. A. STREET
Minister of State for Employment and Industrial Relations for and on behalf of the Prime Minister
* Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 21 December 1977.
AMENDMENT OF THE PUBLIC SERVICE REGULATIONS*
Lapsing of recreation leave credit General provisions
Regulation 48 of the Public Service Regulations is amended by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulation:
“ (5) The Board may direct that, where, by reason of the exigencies of the Public Service, it is found to be impracticable to grant, before 1 January 1978, leave of absence for recreation to an officer in respect of the whole of the recreation leave credit that accrued to the officer on 1 January 1976—
(a) where leave of absence for recreation has not been granted to the officer in respect of that credit—that credit; or
(b) where leave of absence for recreation has been granted to the officer in respect of that credit—the part of that credit in respect of which leave of absence for recreation has not been granted,
shall not lapse until 1 October 1978.”.
* Statutory Rules 1935, No. 18 as amended to date. For previous amendments of the Public Service Regulations see footnote † to Statutory Rules 1977, No. 9 and see also Statutory Rules Nos. 9, 12, 15, 57, 62, 74, 75, 94, 119, 194, 195, 212, 222, 245 and 257.