Long Service Leave (Commonwealth Employees) Regulations 1957
4Emoluments included in salary
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4 Emoluments included in salary
(1) For the purposes of the Act, salary includes the following allowances:
(a) an allowance in respect of the possession of certain qualifications;
(b) an allowance in respect of the performance of duties additional to the ordinary duties of an office or position, not being an allowance in respect of the performance of such duties for a temporary period;
(c) an allowance in lieu of quarters;
(d) an allowance payable to a person as an officer‑in‑charge;
(e) an allowance payable:
(i) to a motor lorry driver under paragraph (a) of clause 1 of Determination No. 30 of 1926 made by the Public Service Arbitrator, as varied by any subsequent determination;
(ii) to a mail officer in charge of a travelling post office van under clause 1 of the Determination No. 9 of 1928 made by the Public Service Arbitrator, as varied by any subsequent determination;
(iii) to a postal officer under clause 14 of Determination No. 30 of 1926 made by the Public Service Arbitrator, as varied by any subsequent determination;
(iv) under paragraph (c) of Schedule A to Determination No. 22 of 1935 made by the Public Service Arbitrator, as varied by any subsequent determination; or
(v) under clause 14 of Determination No. 36 of 1952 made by the Public Service Arbitrator, as varied by any subsequent determination;
for not less than two‑thirds of the working time of the recipient in the period of twelve months immediately preceding the date upon which the recipient’s long service leave commences or payment is made in lieu of long service leave, as the case may be;
(f) an allowance payable to a Commonwealth employee, not being an allowance payable to a fruit inspector (supervising) in lieu of overtime, for the Commonwealth employee’s possession of the same qualifications, or compliance with the same conditions, as those specified in the Second Schedule to the Public Service Regulations in respect of the occupant of an office the designation of which is specified in that Schedule and the duties of which the Commonwealth employee is performing; and
(h) subject to the next succeeding subregulation, an allowance payable under clause 1 of Determination No. 13 of 1930 made by the Public Service Arbitrator, as varied by subsequent Determinations, to telephonists employed in the operation of the overseas radio telephone service.
(1A) The conditions subject to which payments to a person in accordance with the Act are to include amounts payable by way of the allowance referred to in paragraph (h) of the last preceding subregulation are that the person has received the allowance for not less than two-thirds of the person’s working time in the twelve months immediately preceding the date upon which the person’s long service leave commences or payment is made in lieu of long service leave, as the case may be.