EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
STATUTORY RULES 1984 NO. 86
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) of the Act provides that officers of the Second, Third and Fourth Divisions shall be paid salaries at such rates, or in accordance with such scales of rates, as are prescribed.
These Statutory Rules amend Group 25A of Part 1 of Schedule 1 to the Public Service (Salaries) Regulations by substituting the designation Court Counsellor, Class 3 for Director of Court Counselling and inserting a new level of Court Counsellor, Class 4.
The amendment follows examination by the Public Service Board of the levels of Court Counsellors at the Family Court of Australia Registries and its agreement with a proposal from the Attorney-General’s Department that an additional level was warranted.
The new Class 4 level is required to exercise a higher level of management skills in directing and co-ordinating Court Counselling activities in the larger registries leaving the Class 3 officers at these registries to perform the duties of ‘casework supervisors’.