COMMONWEALTH PUBLIC SERVICE.

No. 72 of 1939.

An Act to amend sections fifty and seventy-two of the Commonwealth Public Service Act 1922–1937.

[Assented to 15th December, 1939.]

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 1939.

(2.)   The Commonwealth Public Service Act 1922–1937 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 1922–1939.

Commencement.

2.  This Act shall be deemed to have come into operation on the second day of September, One thousand nine hundred and thirty-nine.

Promotions.

3.  Section fifty of the Principal Act is amended by inserting after sub-section (7.) the following sub-section:—

“(7a.)   The Board may regard an appeal as having been made, on either of the grounds specified in sub-section (6.) of this section, by an officer who, at any time within the time prescribed for lodging an appeal, is absent on leave granted in pursuance of section seventy-two of this Act, and in that case this section shall have effect as if an appeal had been received from that officer.”.

Leave for military or naval purposes

4.  Section seventy-two of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from sub-section (2.) the word “active” (wherever occurring) and inserting in its stead the word “war”.