COMMONWEALTH PUBLIC SERVICE.

No. 38 of 1933.

An Act to amend the Commonwealth Public Service Act 1922-1932.

[Assented to 9th December, 1933.]

BE it enacted by the King’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:—

Short title and citation.

1.—(1.)  This Act may be cited as the Commonwealth Public Service Act 1933.

(2.)  The Commonwealth Public Service Act 1922-1932 is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.

(3.)  The Principal Act, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Commonwealth Public Service Act 1922-1933.

2.  After section thirty-six of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:—

Appointment of University graduates.

“36a.—(1.)  Where, in accordance with a notice under section thirty-four of this Act, the Board holds an entrance examination of candidates for appointment to the Third Division of the Public Service, and, in the notice of that examination, states the number of such appointments proposed to be made, persons who are at the date of the examination, graduates of an Australian University may apply to the Board, within such period as is prescribed, for appointment to that Division.

(2.)  Any person applying under this section for appointment to the Third Division of the Public Service, who is not more than twenty-five years of age shall, during such period as is prescribed, be eligible for appointment to any of the positions proposed to be filled by successful candidates at the examination and the Board may appoint that person to that Division without examination:

Provided that the number of persons who may be appointed, in pursuance of this section, to positions in the Third Division of the Public Service proposed to be filled by candidates at an entrance examination for that Division shall not exceed ten per centum of the number of those positions.

(3.)  Any person appointed to the Public Service in pursuance of this section shall be appointed at such commencing salary as is prescribed, but not exceeding the maximum salary of the class to which successful candidates at the examination mentioned in this section may be appointed.”.

Offences

3.  Section fifty-five of the Principal Act is amended by inserting in the proviso to paragraph (d) of sub-section (3.), after the word “pounds”, the words “or if, in the case of an officer who has been deprived of his salary during suspension, the amount of the fine imposed, together with the amount of salary of which he has been deprived, exceeds Two pounds,”.