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Public Service Regulations 1935
115GMultiple promotions
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115G Multiple promotions
> group of multiple promotions means a group of promotions comprising:
(a) a promotion, of an officer to an office, that is notified in the Gazette; and
(b) one or more other promotions of the officer notified in the Gazette on the day the promotion referred to in paragraph (a) is so notified or on any succeeding day no later than the day immediately preceding the nominal effective day of that promotion, being a promotion or promotions to an office or to offices the classification or the respective classifications of which are the same as or equivalent to the classification of the office referred to in paragraph (a).
> relevant day, in relation to a group of multiple promotions, means:
(a) if the nominal effective day of each of those promotions is the same — that day; or
(b) in any other case — the nominal effective day that is the later or latest, as the case may be, of the respective nominal effective days of each of those promotions.
(2) Where an officer is promoted to 2 or more offices and those promotions comprise a group of multiple promotions:
(a) none of those promotions takes effect except in accordance with subregulation (13); and
(b) the officer may, by writing, elect to accept one of those promotions.
(3) An election under subregulation (2) relating to a promotion to an office in a Department shall be addressed to the Secretary of that Department.
(4) Where, in relation to one of the promotions referred to in subregulation (2), an election under that subregulation is received by the Secretary to whom it is addressed before the relevant day and immediately before the relevant day that promotion was not an appellable promotion the subject of an appeal, that promotion is the effective promotion.
(5) Where, in relation to one of the promotions referred to in subregulation (2), an election under that subregulation is received by the Secretary to whom it is addressed before the relevant day and immediately before the relevant day that promotion was an appellable promotion the subject of an appeal, the other promotion or promotions referred to in subregulation (2) lapse on the relevant day.
(6) Where no election is made or, if made, is not received by the Secretary before the relevant day in relation to the promotions referred to in subregulation (2), subregulation (7), (8), (9), (10), (11) or (12) applies to those promotions.
(7) Where, immediately before the relevant day referred to in subregulation (6), none of the promotions referred to in subregulation (2) was an appellable promotion the subject of an appeal and one such promotion was notified earlier than the other promotions, that promotion is the effective promotion.
(8) Where, immediately before the relevant day referred to in subregulation (6), none of the promotions referred to in subregulation (2) was an appellable promotion the subject of an appeal and 2 or more such promotions were notified at one time and the other or others were notified at a later time or times, whichever of those earlier or earliest promotions to be notified is nominated by the Board for the purposes of this subregulation is the effective promotion.
(9) Where, immediately before the relevant day referred to in subregulation (6), none of the promotions referred to in subregulation (2) was an appellable promotion the subject of an appeal and those promotions were notified at the same time, whichever of those promotions is nominated by the Board for the purposes of this subregulation is the effective promotion.
(10) Where, immediately before the relevant day referred to in subregulation (6):
(a) one of the promotions referred to in subregulation (2) was an appellable promotion but was not the subject of an appeal and the other promotion or promotions were so subject; or
(b) one of the promotions referred to in subregulation (2) was a section 50DA promotion and the other promotion or promotions was or were appellable promotions the subject of an appeal;
the appellable promotion that was not the subject of an appeal or the section 50DA promotion, as the case may be, is the effective promotion.
(11) Where, immediately before the relevant day referred to in subregulation (6), the promotions referred to in subregulation (2) were the subject of appeals, the promotion or promotions other than:
(a) the promotion notified first;
(b) where those promotions were notified at the same time — the promotion nominated by the Board for the purposes of this paragraph; or
(c) where those promotions comprised more than 2 and 2 or more of them were the earlier or earliest to be notified — whichever of those earlier or earliest promotions to be notified is nominated by the Board for the purposes of this paragraph;
lapse on the relevant day.
(12) Where none of subregulations (7), (8), (9), (10) and (11) apply to the promotions referred to in subregulation (2), the promotion (not being a promotion the subject of an appeal) nominated by the Board for the purposes of this subregulation is the effective promotion.
(13) For the purposes of subregulations (4), (5), (7), (8), (9), (10), (11) and (12):
(a) where one of 2 or more promotions is the effective promotion:
(i) that promotion takes effect, subject to regulation 110, on the relevant day; and
(ii) the other promotion or promotions lapse on the relevant day; and
(b) the promotion referred to in subregulation (5) or in a paragraph of subregulation (11) that does not lapse shall take effect in accordance with subregulation 113 (1).
(14) Regulations 113, 115A and 115D shall be read subject to this regulation.