EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
STATUTORY RULES 1982 NO 42
PUBLIC SERVICE (SALARIES) REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT)
Issued with the Authority of the Public Service Board
Sub-section 97(1) of the Public Service Act 1922 provides that the Public Service Board may, with the approval of the Governor-General, make regulations prescribing all matters which are required to be prescribed for giving effect to that Act. Sub-section 30(2) provides that officers of the Second, Third and Fourth Divisions shall be paid salaries at such rates, or in accordance with such scale of rates, as are prescribed.
Regulation 14 of the Public Service (Salaries) Regulations made pursuant to sub-section 97(1) of the Public Service Act, provides that the salary payable to Fourth Division officers holding certain offices shall be the same as that payable to officers holding Third Division offices having the same designation.
These regulations amend regulation 14 of the Public Service (Salaries) Regulations to include the designation Prosthetist to permit offices of Prosthetist to be occupied by officers of the Fourth Division.
Positions in the new Prosthetist structure have previously been restricted to officers having Third Division qualifications. The Public Service Board has however recently endorsed a transitional arrangement which will allow certain officers of the Limb Making and Fitting group in the Fourth Division to apply for positions as Prosthetists.