STATUTORY RULES.
1947. No. 16.
REGULATION UNDER THE AUSTRALIAN SOLDIERS’ REPATRIATION ACT 1920-1946.*
I, THE ADMINISTRATOR of the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulation under the Australian Soldiers’ Repatriation Act 1920-1946.
Dated this nineteenth day of February, 1947.
W. DUGAN
Administrator.
By His Excellency’s Command,
H. C. BARNARD
Minister of State for Repatriation.
Amendment of the Repatriation (Staff) Regulations.†
Variations of salary on account of variations in cost of living.
Regulation 24 of the Repatriation (Staff) Regulations is amended by inserting after sub-regulation (5.) the following sub-regulation:—
“(5a.) Notwithstanding anything contained in this regulation—
(a) the index number for the six months ended the thirtieth day of September, 1946, shall be deemed to be 99.7; and
(b) the salaries of officers shall be adjusted accordingly as from the commencement of the first pay period beginning in the month of December, 1946, instead of as from the commencement of the first pay period beginning in the month of November, 1946.”.
* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 27th February, 1947.
† Statutory Rules 1941, No. 259, as amended by Statutory Rules 1942, No. 462; 1944, No. 11; and 1946, Nos. 16 and 100.
By Authority: L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.
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