Commonwealth Numbered Acts

PUBLIC SERVICE ACTS AMENDMENT ACT 1982 No. 111, 1982 - SECT 96

96. (1) The Statistics (Arrangements with States) Act 1956*11* is in this
section referred to as the Principal Act.

(2) Section 7 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from sub-section
(2) all the words after ''probation''.

(3) Section 10 of the Principal Act is amended-

   (a)  by omitting from sub-section (1) ''and to sections twenty, fifty-five,
        fifty-six, sixty-two and sixty-seven of the Public Service Act'' and
        substituting '', the provisions of Division 6 of Part III of the
        Public Service Act relating to the reduction in, or suspension of,
        remuneration payable to an officer, the
        Commonwealth Employees (Redeployment and  Retirement) Act 1979 ''; and

   (b)  by omitting from sub-section (2) ''which, under sub-sections (4), (5)
        and (6) of section thirty-one of the Public Service Act, apply to
        increments of salary referred to in sub-section (1) of that section''
        and substituting ''of the regulations under the Public Service Act,
        and of the determinations in force under sub-section 9 (7A) or section
        82D of that Act that are applicable to him, relating to increments of
        salary''.

(4) Section 14 of the Principal Act is amended-

   (a)  by omitting from sub-section (3) ''section seventy-three or
        seventy-four of the Public Service Act or of section seven or eight of
        the Commonwealth Employees' Furlough Act 1943-1953'' and substituting
        ''the Long  Service Leave (Commonwealth Employees) Act 1976 ''; and

   (b)  by omitting sub-sections (4) and (5) and substituting the following
        sub-section:

''(4) Where a State employee-

   (a)  has, before 20 December 1976, been granted furlough or pay in lieu of
        furlough under the Public Service Act or under the Commonwealth
        Employees' Furlough Act 1943; or

   (b)  is, on or after 20 December 1976, granted long service leave or pay in
        lieu of long service leave under the Long Service Leave (Commonwealth
        Employees) Act 1976 ,

the period of the leave so granted, or the period in respect of which the pay
is granted, as the case may be, shall be deducted from any period of furlough
for the grant of which he is entitled or eligible, or from any period in
respect of which he is entitled to or eligible for pay in lieu of furlough,
under sub-section (1).''.