Salaries Adjustment Act 1955

No. 18, 1955

Compilation date: 16 February 1956

Includes amendments up to: Act No. 69, 1955

About this compilation

This compilation

This is a compilation of the Salaries Adjustment Act 1955 that shows the text of the law as amended and in force on 16 February 1956 (the compilation date).

The notes at the end of this compilation (the endnotes) include information about amending laws and the amendment history of provisions of the compiled law.

Application, saving and transitional provisions for provisions and amendments

If the operation of a provision or amendment of the compiled law is affected by an application, saving or transitional provision that is not included in this compilation, details are included in the endnotes.

Modifications

If the compiled law is modified by another law, the compiled law operates as modified but the modification does not amend the text of the law. Accordingly, this compilation does not show the text of the compiled law as modified.

Self -repealing provisions

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Contents

1 Short title 1

2 Commencement 1

3 Statutory offices 1

4 Public Service and other Services 2

First Schedule 4

Second Schedule 6

Third Schedule 7

Endnotes 9

Endnote 1—Legislation history 9

Endnote 2—Amendment history 10

An Act to provide for Increases in certain Salaries and for purposes connected therewith.
1 Short title

This Act may be cited as the Salaries Adjustment Act 1955.
2 Commencement

This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.
3 Statutory offices 1

The Acts specified in the first column of the First Schedule to this Act (being Acts fixing the salaries payable to the holders of the offices respectively specified in the second column of that Schedule) are amended as respectively specified in the third column of that Schedule.

 2

The amendments effected by the last preceding sub-section shall be deemed to have had effect from and including the first day of January, One thousand nine hundred and fifty-five.

 3

(3) Section one hundred and eighty-two of the Income Tax and Social Services Contribution Assessment Act 1936-1954 is amended by omitting the words ''Thirty thousand pounds'' and inserting in their stead the words ''Thirty-five thousand pounds''.

 4

(4) Section one of the Public Service Arbitration Act 1955 is amended by omitting sub-section (3).

 5

Each Act specified in the first column of the Second Schedule to this Act, as amended by this Act, may be cited in the manner specified in the second column of that Schedule opposite to the reference to that Act in the first column.
4 Public Service and other Services 1

The variations in the salaries, or limits of salary, of offices or positions specified in the first column of the Third Schedule to this Act made by the authorities respectively specified in the second column of that Schedule on the dates respectively specified in the third column of that Schedule shall be deemed to have been lawfully made and shall have effect, and shall be deemed to have had effect from and including the dates respectively specified in the fourth column of that Schedule, as a re-classification of those offices or positions.

 2

An office or position so re-classified shall be deemed not to have become vacant by reason of the re-classification.

 3

(3) Regulations may be made under the Public Service Act 1922-1955 for purposes of or in relation to a re-classification referred to in sub-section (1) of this section of offices to which that Act applies and regulations so made shall be deemed to have come into operation on the twenty-third day of December, One thousand nine hundred and fifty-four.

 4

Any action taken before the commencement of this Act by an authority specified in the second column of the Third Schedule to this Act for purposes of or in relation to a re-classification referred to in sub-section (1) of this section shall be deemed to have been lawfully taken, and, if the authority specified a date as the date from which that action should be deemed to have had effect, to have had effect from that date.

 5

The action referred to in the last preceding sub-section includes, in the case of an office or position having varied limits of salary applicable to it by virtue of a re-classification referred to in sub-section (1) of this section, action to determine:

 a

the rate of salary, within those limits, which the occupant of that office or position was entitled to be paid as from the date specified in the fourth column of the Third Schedule to this Act in relation to that office or position; and

 b

the date as from which the occupant of that office or position would become eligible to be granted his first increment of salary after the date so specified.

 6

(6) The Public Service Act 1951 is repealed. Section 5 repealed by No. 27, 1955, s. 11.

First Schedule
First Column Acts amended Second Column Offices Third Column Amendments
Audit Act 1901-1954 Auditor-General for the Commonwealth Section 4- Omit ''Three thousand five hundred pounds'', insert ''Four thousand five hundred pounds''
Commonwealth Railways Act 1917-1954 Commonwealth Railways Commissioner Section 14- Omit from sub-section (1) ''Three thousand five hundred pounds'', insert ''Four thousand five hundred pounds''
Conciliation and Arbitration Act 1904-1952, as amended by the Judges' Remuneration Act 1955 Chief Conciliation Commissioner Section 10- Omit from sub-section (1) ''Two thousand two hundred and fifty pounds'', insert ''Three thousand two hundred and fifty pounds''
Conciliation Commissioner Section 10- Omit from sub-section (1) ''One thousand eight hundred pounds'', insert ''Two thousand seven hundred and fifty pounds''
Public Service Act 1922-1954 Chairman of the Public Service Board Section 13- Omit from sub-section (1) ''Four thousand pounds'', insert ''Five thousand five hundred pounds''
Member of the Public Service Board Section 13- Omit from sub-section (1) ''Three thousand two hundred and fifty pounds'', insert ''Four thousand five hundred pounds''
Public Service Arbitration Act 1920-1952, as amended by the Public Service Arbitration Act 1955 Public Service Arbitrator Section 7- Omit from sub-section (1) ''Three thousand two hundred and fifty pounds'', insert ''Four thousand five hundred pounds''
Taxation Administration Act 1953, as amended by the Income Tax and Social Services Contribution Assessment Act 1953, the Entertainments Tax Abolition Act 1953, the Pay-roll Tax Assessment Act 1953 and the Estate Duty Assessment Act 1953 Commissioner of Taxation Second Commissioner of Taxation Section 5- Omit from sub-section (6) ''Four thousand pounds'', insert ''Five thousand five hundred pounds''
Section 5- Omit from sub-section (6) ''Three thousand pounds'', insert ''Four thousand five hundred pounds''

Second Schedule

Amended by No. 54, 1955, s. 1; No. 62, 1955, s. 1; and No. 69, 1955, s. 67.
First Column Acts amended Second Column Citations
Audit Act 1901-1954 Audit Act 1901-1955
Public Service Act 1922-1954 Public Service Act 1922-1955
Public Service Arbitration Act 1920-1952, as amended by the Public Service Arbitration Act 1955 Public Service Arbitration Act 1920-1955
Taxation Administration Act 1953, as amended by the Income Tax and Social Services Contribution Assessment Act 1953, the Entertainments Tax Abolition Act 1953, the Pay-roll Tax Assessment Act 1953 and the Estate Duty Assessment Act 1953 Taxation Administration Act 1953-1955

Third Schedule
First Column Offices and Positions Second Column Authority Third Column Date of Resolution Fourth Column Date of Effect
Offices in the several Departments of State of the Commonwealth Public Service Board Nineteenth day of January, 1955 Twenty-third day of December, 1954
Offices in the Department of the Senate The President of the Senate Twenty-eighth day of January, 1955 Twenty-third day of December, 1954
Offices in the Department of the House of Representatives The Speaker of the House of Representatives Nineteenth day of January, 1955 Twenty-third day of December, 1954
Offices in the Department of the Parliamentary Library The President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives Nineteenth day of January, 1955 Twenty-third day of December, 1954
Offices in the Department of the Parliamentary Reporting Staff The President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives Twenty-eighth day of January, 1955 Twenty-third day of December, 1954
Offices in the Joint House Department The President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives Twenty-third day of February, 1955 Twenty-third day of December, 1954
Positions in the Service of the Overseas Telecommunications Commission (Australia) Overseas Telecommunications Commission (Australia) Twentieth day of January, 1955 Twenty-fifth day of December, 1954
Positions in the Service of the Australian Broadcasting Commission Australian Broadcasting Commission Ninth day of February, 1955 Twenty-sixth day of December, 1954
Positions in the Commonwealth Bank Service Commonwealth Bank of Australia Third day of March, 1955 Third day of December, 1954

Endnotes

Endnote 1—Legislation history

This endnote sets out details of the legislation history of the Salaries Adjustment Act 1955.
Act Number and year Assent Commencement Application, saving and transitional provisions
Salaries Adjustment Act 1955 18, 1955 10 June 1955 10 June 1955 (s 2)
Superannuation Act 1955 27, 1955 15 June 1955 s 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7(a) and 10: 19 Jan 1955 Remainder: Royal Assent —
Conciliation and Arbitration Act 1955 54, 1955 3 Nov 1955 3 Nov 1955 —
Income Tax and Social Services Contribution Assessment Act 1955 62, 1955 4 Nov 1955 4 Nov 1955 —
Lands Acquisition Act 1955 69, 1955 4 Nov 1955 16 Feb 1956 (see Gazette 1956, p. 472) —

Endnote 2—Amendment history
Provision affected How affected
s 5 rep No 27,1955
Second Schedule am No 54, 1955; No 62, 1955; No 69, 1955