STATUTORY RULES.

1939. No. 83.

REGULATION UNDER THE SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY RESEARCH ACT 1920-1937.*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of, Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulation under the Science and Industry Research Act 1920-1937.

Dated this sixth day of September, 1939.

GOWRIE

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

R. G. CASEY

for Prime Minister.

Amendment of the Science and Industry Research Regulation.†

Meaning of “officer” and “salary” in Regulation 8-12.

Regulation 13 of the Science and Industry Research Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting from paragraph (c) of the definition, of “salary” the words “or her”; and

(b) by adding at the end of that definition the following paragraph:—

“; (f) allowance payable to an officer in respect of the performance of higher duties than those incident to the scale of salary of his classified office, where the officer has performed such higher duties for not less than twelve months immediately preceding the date upon which he commences furlough or ceases to be an officer, and, in the case of an officer granted furlough, he is to retire at the expiration of that furlough.”.

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 7th September, 1939.

† Statutory Rules 1920, No. 125, as amended by Statutory Rules 1927, Nos. 38 and 57: 1931. No. 41: 1936. No. 13; 1937, No. 8; 1938, No. 14; and 1939, Nos. 15 and 45.

By Authority: L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.

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