STATUTORY RULES.

1964. No. 87.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE BROADCASTING AND TELEVISION ACT 1942-1963.*

I, THE ADMINISTRATOR of the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Broadcasting and Television Act 1942-1963.

Dated this ninth day of July, 1964.

E.W. WOODWARD

Administrator.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Postmaster-General.

Amendments of the Australian Broadcasting Commission (Staff) Regulations.†

Definitions.

1. Regulation 4 of the Australian Broadcasting Commission (Staff) Regulations is amended by omitting the definition of “the Assistant General Manager (Administration)” and inserting in its stead the following definition:—

“‘the Deputy General Manager’ means the officer occupying the position of Deputy General Manager or, for the time being, performing the duties of that position;”.

Delegation.

2. Regulation 5 of the Australian Broadcasting Commission (Staff) Regulations is amended by omitting from sub-regulation (4.) the words “Assistant General Manager (Administration)” and inserting in their stead the words “Deputy General Manager”.

3. Regulation 9 of the Australian Broadcasting Commission (Staff) Regulations is repealed and the following regulation is inserted in its stead:—

Seniority.

“9.—(1.) Subject to this regulation, the relative seniority of officers, for the purposes of promotion under section 48 of the Act, shall be determined by the respective dates on which they commenced or commence duty as officers, and, where two or more officers commenced, are deemed to have commenced, or commence duty on the same day, their relative seniority shall be as determined by the Commission.

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 16th July, 1964.

† Statutory Rules 1961, No.82.

7402/64.—Price 9d 8/23.6.1964.

“(2.) The relative seniority of officers, for the purposes of promotion under section 48 of the Act to a position of—

(a) Senior Technician (Radio);

(b) Supervising Technician (Radio) Grade 1;

(d) Supervising Technician (Radio) Grade 2a;

(e) Supervising Technician (Radio) Grade 3;

(f) Supervising Technician (Radio) Grade 4; or

(g) Supervising Technician (Radio) Grade 5,

shall be determined by the respective dates on which the officers qualified for promotion to a position of Senior Technician (Radio).

“(3.) Where two or more officers qualified for promotion to a position of Senior Technician (Radio) on the same date, their relative seniority, for the purposes of promotion under section 48 of the Act to a position specified in the last preceding sub-regulation, shall be determined by the respective dates on which the officers were first appointed, transferred or promoted to the position of Technician (Radio).

“(4.) Where two or more officers were first appointed, transferred or promoted to the position of Technician (Radio) on the same date, their relative seniority for the purposes of promotion under section 48 of the Act to a position specified in sub-regulation (2.) of this regulation, shall be determined according to their relative seniority as determined by, or under, sub-regulation (1.) of this regulation.

“(5.) For the purposes of this regulation, an officer who, immediately before the date on which he became an officer of the Commission, was an officer occupying an office in the Postmaster-General’s Department and had qualified for promotion to an office of Senior Technician (Telecommunications) in that Department shall be deemed to have qualified for promotion to a position of Senior Technician (Radio) in the service of the Commission on the date on which he qualified for promotion to an office of Senior Technician (Telecommunications) in the Postmaster-General’s Department.

“(6.) For the purposes of sub-regulation (1.) of this regulation, an officer who, in the period that commences on the twentieth day of September, 1964, and ends on the twenty-eighth day of February, 1965, is appointed to the service of the Commission in a position specified in sub-regulation (2.) of this regulation or in a position of Technician (Radio), Technician-in-Training (Radio) or Technician’s Assistant (Radio) and was, immediately before his appointment, an officer of the Postmaster-General’s Department shall be deemed to have commenced duty in the service of the Commission on the twentieth day of September, 1964.

“(7.) For the purposes of sub-regulation (1.) of this regulation, an officer who, In the period that commenced on the sixth day of July, 1964, and ends on the thirty-first day of December, 1964, is appointed to the service of the Commission in a position in the Radio Studio Technical Service in the designation of which the word ‘Engineer’ is included and was, immediately before his appointment, an officer of the Postmaster-General’s Department shall be deemed to have commenced duty in the service of the Commission on the sixth day of July, 1964.”.

Reference to Disputes Committee.

4. Regulation 32 of the Australian Broadcasting Commission (Staff) Regulations is amended by omitting from sub-regulation (3.) the words “Assistant General Manager (Administration)” and inserting in their stead the words “Deputy General Manager”.

Interpretation.

5. Regulation 38 of the Australian Broadcasting Commission (Staff) Regulations is amended by omitting from paragraph (b) of the definition of “the prescribed officer” the words “Assistant General Manager (Administration)” and inserting in their stead the words “Deputy General Manager”.

Report by prescribed officer to the Commission.

6. Regulation 42 of the Australian Broadcasting Commission (Staff) Regulations is amended:—

(a) by inserting in paragraph (a) after the word “investigate” the words “or cause to have investigated”.

(b) by omitting sub-paragraph (i) of paragraph (b) and inserting in its stead the following paragraph:—

“(i) a report on those investigations;”.

By Authority. A. J. Arthur, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.