STATUTORY RULES.

1961. No. 136.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE PUBLIC SERVICE ACT 1922-1960.*

THE PUBLIC SERVICE BOARD, acting in pursuance and exercise of the authority conferred upon it by the Public Service Act 1922-1960, hereby makes, subject to the approval of the Governor-General, the following Regulations.

Dated this twenty-third day of October, 1961.

F. H. WHEELER

Chairman.

K. E. GRAINGER

Commissioner.

J. E. COLLINGS

Commissioner.

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby approve the following Regulations.

Dated this twenty-sixth day of October, 1961.

DE L’ISLE

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

ROBERT G. MENZIES

Prime Minister.

AMENDMENTS OF THE PUBLIC SERVICE REGULATIONS.†

Salaries payable to officers of the Second or Third Division.

1. Regulation 104 of the Public Service Regulations is amended—

(a) by inserting after sub-regulation (1.) the following sub-regulation:—

“(1A.) The scale of rates of annual salary payable to an officer who occupies an office of Engineer, Class 1 is £1, 298-£1, 438-£1, 578-£1,738-£1,918-£2,098.”; and

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 27th October, 1961.

† Statutory Rules 1935, No. 18, as amended to date. For previous amendments of the Public Service Regulations, see footnote † to Statutory Rules 1961, No. 35, and see also Statutory Rules 1961, Nos. 35, 68, 69, 83, 87, 99, 114, 116 and 125.

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(b) by omitting from sub-regulation (2.) the words “the last preceding sub-regulation” and inserting in their stead the words “sub-regulation (1.) of this regulation”.

Authority for payment of retrospective allowances.

2.—(1.) In this regulation—

“office to which this regulation applies” means an office—

(a) the duties of which require the performance of professional duties of an engineering nature; and

(b) the classification of which has been raised by the Board following upon the making of the Determination;

“the Determination” means the Determination made on the twenty-third day of June, 1961, by the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission and known as Determination No. 19 of 1961;

“the prescribed period” means the period commencing on the twenty-ninth day of June, 1961, and ending on the day immediately before the day upon which the classification of the office is raised.

(2.) An officer or employee who has, for the whole or part of the prescribed period, performed the duties of an office to which this regulation applies shall be paid an allowance of such amount as will have the effect of raising his total remuneration in respect of the whole or part, as the case may be, of that period, to that which he would have received if he had been, in that period or in that part of that period, occupying an office having the same classification as the classification to which the office the duties of which he performed in that period or part of that period has been raised.

By Authority: A. J. ARTHUR, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.