Statutory Rules

1977 No. 92

REGULATIONS UNDER THE PAPUA NEW GUINEA INDEPENDENCE ACT 1975.*

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 Papua New Guinea Independence Act 1975.

Dated this eighth day of June, 1977.

A. R. CUTLER

Administrator.

By His Excellency’s Command,

IAN SINCLAIR

Minister of State for Primary Industry for and on behalf of the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs.

Amendments of the Papua New Guinea Independence (Public Service) Regulations†

Repeal of regulation 2 and 4.

1. Regulations 2 and 4 of the Papua New Guinea Independence (Public Service) Regulations are repealed.

Schedule.

2. The Schedule to the Papua New Guinea Independence (Public Service) Regulations is repealed and the following Schedule substituted:—

SCHEDULE                                             Regulation 3

Modifications and Adaptations of the Public Service Act 1922

Insert after section 47d the following section:—

“ 47da. (1) The Board may make arrangements with the Public Services Commission, or other appropriate authority, of the Independent State of Papua New Guinea for the transfer, for a specified period, of an officer of the Australian Public Service to an office in the Public Service of the Independent State of Papua New Guinea or of an officer of that last-mentioned Service to an office in the Australian Public Service, and may do such things as arc necessary to carry out the arrangements.

“ (2) Where an officer of the Australian Public Service is transferred in accordance with any arrangements made under sub-section (1), the Board may declare his office to be vacant, and he shall thereupon be deemed to be an unattached officer.

“ (3) An officer of the Australian Public Service who has been transferred in accordance with any arrangements made under sub-section (1) and whose office has been declared vacant, is, upon completion of the period for which he was transferred, unless he has been dismissed for misconduct or has attained the maximum age for retirement fixed by this Act, entitled to be appointed to an office in the Australian Public Service of such status and salary as are determined by the Board, having regard to his former office and the period for which he was transferred.”.

Insert in sub-section (1) of section 53c, after the word “ Territory ” (first occurring), the words “ or in the Independent State of Papua New Guinea ”.

Add at the end of sub-section (1) of section 53c, the words “, or in the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, as the case may be ”.

* Notified in the Australian Government Gazette on 15 June 1977.

† Statutory Rules 1976, No. 110.