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These Regulations set the employment terms for staff of the High Commissioner’s Office: they create three classes of officers and prescribe appointment, confirmation, pay ranges, allowances (travel, meals, overtime), hours, leave, discipline and retirement rules. They apply to persons appointed under the High Commissioner Act and determine who decides (Minister, High Commissioner, Official Secretary) and how pay and benefits are calculated and adjusted. The instrument matters because it fixes employers’ obligations, compliance steps (medical and attendance evidence), discretionary authorities and the financial cost borne by the Commonwealth.
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STATUTORY RULES.
1941. No. .
REGULATIONS UNDER THE HIGH COMMISSIONER ACT 1909-1940.*
I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the High Commissioner Act 1909-1940.
Dated this fifth day of November, 1941.
(SGD.) GOWRIE.
Governor General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
Prime Minister.
HIGH COMMISSIONER (STAFF) REGULATIONS.
Part I. —Preliminary.
Citation.
1. These Regulations may be cited as the High Commissioner (Staff) Regulations.
Parts.
2. These Regulations are divided into Parts, as follows:—
Part I. —Preliminary.
Part II. —Classification and Salaries.
Part III. —Officers of the First and Second Classes.
Division I. —Appointments, Promotions and Transfers.
Division II. —Leave of Absence.
Division III. —Overtime and Allowances.
Division IV. —Offences.
Division V. —Retirement.
Division VI. —Miscellaneous.
Part IV. —Officers of the Third Class.
Part V. —Attendance, Hours of Duty and Holidays.
Part VI. —Miscellaneous.
Definitions.
3. In these Regulations, unless the contrary intention appears—
“officer” means a person appointed by the High Commissioner in pursuance of the powers conferred upon him by section 9 of the Act;
* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1941.
2648.—20/16. 10. 1941. —Price 1s. 3d.
“returned soldier” means any person who enlisted prior to the eleventh day of November, One thousand nine hundred and eighteen and served in the war with satisfactory record in any Expeditionary Force raised under the provisions of the Defence Act 1903-1918, and includes—
(a) a member of the Army Medical Corps Nursing Service who was accepted or appointed by the Director-General of Medical Services for service outside Australia during the war;
(b) any member of the Naval Forces of the Commonwealth who has during the war been on active service outside Australia or on a ship of war;
(c) any person who, during the war, has been employed as a radio telegraphist in the transport services in connexion with any such Expeditionary Force, and who, while so employed, served in the zone of war; and
(d) any person who was born in Australia, or resident in Australia within six months prior to enlistment, and who, at any time during the war, served with satisfactory record in a Naval or Military Expeditionary Force raised in the United Kingdom or in any British Dominion;
“the Act” means the High Commissioner Act 1909-1940;
“the Office” means the High Commissioner’s Office;
“the Official Secretary” means the Official Secretary, High Commissioner’s Office;
“the Assistant Secretary” means the Assistant Secretary, High Commissioner’s Office;
“the Service” means the Service of the High Commissioner;
“the War” means the war which commenced on the fourth day of August, 1914.
Delegation of powers and functions of High Commissioner.
4.—(1.) The High Commissioner may delegate in writing to the Official Secretary all or any of the powers and functions vested in him by these Regulations, except this power of delegation, so that the delegated powers and functions may be exercised by the delegate as fully and effectually as by the High Commissioner.
(2.) Any delegation under this regulation shall be revocable at will and shall not prevent the exercise of any power or function by the High Commissioner.
Delegation of powers and functions of Official Secretary.
5.—(1.) The Official Secretary may delegate in writing to the Assistant Secretary any of the powers and functions vested in him by these Regulations relating to recreation leave, leave of absence under regulation 80 of these Regulations, sick leave and overtime, so that the delegated powers and functions may be exercised by the delegate as fully and effectually as by the Official Secretary.
(2.) Any delegation under this regulation shall be revocable at will and shall not prevent the exercise of any power or function by the Official Secretary.
Part II.—Classification and Salaries.
Classes.
6.—(1.) The Service shall consist of three Classes, that is to say—
The First Class;
The Second Class; and
The Third Class.
(2.) The First Class shall include officers who are required to exercise executive or professional functions in the more important offices of the Service, and whose offices the Minister directs to be included in that Class.
(3.) The Second Class shall include clerks, typists and other officers whose offices the Minister directs to be included in that Class.
(4.) The Third Class shall include all officers not included in the First or Second Class.
Classification.
7. As soon as may be after the commencement of these Regulations, the Minister shall, having regard to any recommendations of the High Commissioner, classify officers, directing the inclusion of their offices in the respective Classes specified in the last preceding regulation and allotting, subject to these Regulations, to each office in the First and Second Classes limits of salary in accordance with the character and importance of the work required to be performed by the occupant of that office.
Salaries of officers of the First Class upon classification.
8.—(1.) The limits of salary which may be allotted to an office in the First Class shall be the limits of such salary range specified in Table A of the First Schedule to these Regulations as the Minister, in pursuance of the last preceding regulation, determines.
(2.) The annual rate of salary payable to an officer upon classification of his office in the First Class shall be such rate specified in Table B of the First Schedule to these Regulations, within the limits of salary allotted, as the Minister determines.
Salaries of officers of the Second Class upon classification.
9.—(1.) The limits of salary which may be allotted to an office in the Second Class shall be the limits of such salary range specified in Table A of the Second Schedule to these Regulations as the Minister, in pursuance of regulation 7 of these Regulations, determines.
(2.) The annual rate of salary payable to an officer upon classification of his office in the Second Class shall be such rate specified in Table B of the Second Schedule to these Regulations, within the limits of salary allotted, as the Minister determines:
Provided that, if any such officer, immediately prior to classification, was receiving a rate of salary higher than the maximum rate of the limits of salary allotted to his office upon classification, that officer shall be entitled to be paid at that higher rate so long as he continues to occupy that particular office.
(3.) Notwithstanding anything contained in this regulation—
(a) the minimum rates of salary payable to male clerks twenty-one years of age and under shall be as follows:—
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(b) the minimum rates of salary payable to officers twenty-one years of age and
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