No. 64 of 1936.
An Act to amend the Trade Commissioners Act 1933.
[Assented to 1st December, 1936.]
BE it enacted by the King’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of tvhe Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:—
Short title and citation.
1.—(1.) This Act may be cited as the Trade Commissioners Act 1936.
(2.) The Trade Commissioners Act 1933 is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.
(3.) The Principal Act, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Trade Commissioners Act 1933-1936.
Appointment of Trade Commissioners and Assistant Trade Commissioners.
2. Section three of the Principal Act is amended by omitting the words “as the Governor-General determines” and inserting in their stead the words “as are prescribed or as the Governor-General in any particular case determines”.
Trade Commissioners or Assistant Trade Commissioners who were not previously officers of Public Service.
3. Section four of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from sub-section (2.) the words “as the Governor-General determines” and inserting in their stead the words “as are prescribed or as the Governor-General in any particular case determines”.
Officers of Public Service appointed Trade Commissioners or Assistant Trade Commissioners.
4. Section six of the Principal Act is amended—
(а) by inserting in paragraph (d) of sub-section (1.), after the word “misconduct”, the words “or has attained the maximum age for retirement fixed by the Commonwealth Public Service Act 1922-1934”;
(b) by inserting, after sub-section (1.), the following sub-section:—
“(1a.) For the purpose of determining the existing and accruing rights of an officer under paragraph (b) of the last preceding sub-section, the officer’s service as a Trade Commissioner or an Assistant Trade Commissioner shall be taken into account as if it were service in the Public Service of the Commonwealth, and the Officers’ Rights
Declaration Act 1928-1933 shall apply as if this Act and section had been specified in the Schedule to that Act.”; and
(c) by omitting from sub-section (3.) the words “as the Governor-General determines” and inserting in their stead the words “as are prescribed or as the Governor-General in any particular case determines”.