STATUTORY RULES

1949. No. 11.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE HIGH COMMISSIONER ACT 1909-1945.*

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 1909-1945.

Dated this twenty-third day of February, 1949.

W. J. McKELL

Governor-General.

By His Excellency's Command,

J. B. CHIFLEY

Prime Minister.

Amendments of the High Commissioner (Staff) Regulations. †

1. After Regulation 13 of the High Commissioner (Staff). Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—

Variations salary on account of variations the cost of living.

“ 14.—(1.) For the purposes of this regulation the term ‘index number’ means the number ascertained by averaging the monthly index figures of the  All Items Index of Retail Prices published by the Ministry of Labour and National Service of the United Kingdom in the Ministry of Labour Gazette from time to time, and any decimal figures arrived at as the result of averaging the index figures arithmetically shall be taken to the nearest first decimal figure.

(2.) Where the index number for the six months ending in the month of June or the month of December in any year is less than 98.8, salaries payable in pursuance of regulation 7 of these Regulations shall, as from the commencement of the first fortnightly pay period ,beginning in the month of August or the month of February (as the case may be) next following, be reduced by the appropriate amount as shown in the following table opposite the index number group within which the index number falls:—

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 24th February, 1949.

† Statutory Rules 1941, No. 258, as amended by Statutory Rules 1943, Nos. 73 and 300 ; 1944, No. 172; 1946, Nos. 50 and 97; and 1948, No. 58.

568. ─Price 3d.

(3.) If the index number falls below 83.8 salaries shall be further reduced on the basis indicated in the last preceding sub-regulation, that is to say, for each fall of 2.5 points in the index number salaries shall be reduced by £6 per annum in the ease of adult males, £4 per annum in the case of adult females and £3 per annum in the case of officers under twenty-one years of age.

(4.) Where the index number for the six months ending in the month of June or the month of December in any year exceeds 101.2, salaries payable in pursuance of regulation 7 of these Regulations shall, as from the commencement of the first fortnightly pay period beginning in the month of August or the month of February (as the case may be) next following, be increased by the appropriate amount as shown in the following table opposite the index number group within which the index number falls:—

(5.) If the index number rises above 116.2, salaries shall be further increased on the basis indicated in the last preceding sub-regulation, that is to say, for every rise of 2.5 points in the index number salaries shall be increased by £6 per annum in the case of adult males, £4 per annum in the case of adult females and £3 per annum in the case of officers under twenty-one years of age.”.

Commencement.

2. Regulation 1 of these Regulations shall be deemed to have taken effect as on and from the first day of July, 1947, and the salaries of officers shall be adjusted and payable accordingly.

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