STATUTORY RULES.

1943. No. 73.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE HIGH COMMISSIONER ACT 1909-1940.*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the High Commissioner Act 1909-1940.

Dated this twenty-third day of March, 1943.

(SGD.) GOWRIE.

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

for Prime Minister.

Amendments of the High Commissioner (Staff) Regulations.†

Recording and payment of overtime.

1.—(1.) Regulation 46 of the High Commissioner (Staff) Regulations is amended by omitting sub-regulation (1.) and inserting in its stead the following sub-regulations:—

“(1.) If an officer whose normal hours of duty are 73½ hours per fortnight is required to commence work before, or continue work after, the normal time for his commencing or ceasing duty and the time on duty involved by the extra work and his normal hours of duty exceeds in the aggregate 83 hours in any one fortnight, the officer shall be paid at overtime rates for any time on duty in excess of 83 hours in that fortnight.

“(1a.) If an officer whose normal hours of duty exceed 73½ hours but do not exceed 88 hours per fortnight is required to commence work before, or continue work after, the normal time for his commencing or ceasing duty and the time on duty involved by the extra work and his normal hours of duty exceeds in the aggregate 88 hours in any one fortnight, the officer shall be paid at overtime rates for any time on duty in excess of 88 hours in that fortnight.

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on                                                                                            , 1943.

† Statutory Rules 1941, No. 258.

“(1b.) If an officer whose normal hours of duty exceed 88 hours per fortnight is required to commence work before, or continue work after, the normal time for his commencing or ceasing duty, the officer shall be paid at overtime rates for any time on duty in excess of his normal hours of duty in that fortnight,”.

(2.) This regulation shall come into operation as on and from the date of the commencement of the pay period of the High Commissioner’s Office next following the date of the notification of this regulation in the Gazette.

Meal allowance.

2. Regulation 60 of the High Commissioner (Staff) Regulations is amended by omitting from the table in sub-regulation (1.) the figures “2 0” and inserting in their stead the figures “2 6”.

By Authority: L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.