EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
STATUTORY RULES 1982 NO 29
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.
These Statutory Rules amend Part 1 of Schedule 1 to the Public Service (Salaries) Regulations to prescribe revised rates of pay for academic staff in the Service.
The quantum and date of effect of the increase are the same as those determined for academic staff at Commonwealth institutions of tertiary education and recommended for academic staff at other institutions of tertiary education by the Academic Salaries Tribunal on 27 October 1981. On 3 December 1981 the Government announced its decision that the determinations and recommendations of the Academic Salaries Tribunal should be accepted.
Sub-regulation 2(2) of these regulations has the effect of applying the Academic Salaries Tribunal rates for the period from 7 November 1980 to 14 January 1981, the date of effect of the January 1981 National Wage Case.
Sub-regulation 2(3) of these regulations has the effect of further amending the rates for the period from 15 January 1981 to 6 May 1981, the date of effect of the May 1981 National Wage Case, to reflect the January 1981 National Wage Case decision.
Regulation 1 of these regulations has the effect of further amending the rates with effect from 7 May 1981 to reflect the May 1981 National Wage Case decision.
The designations of Tutor, Senior Tutor, Principal Tutor and Professor which are included in regulation 1 of these regulations but not in regulation 2 are designations inserted into Group 1 of Part 1 of Schedule 1 to the Public Service (Salaries) Regulations by Statutory Rules 1981 No 361.