Commonwealth Numbered Acts

PUBLIC SERVICE AND STATUTORY AUTHORITIES AMENDMENT ACT 1980 No. 177, 1980 - SECT 15

15. (1) Section 31 of the Principal Act is repealed and the following section
substituted: Increments

"31. Where a scale of rates of salary determined under sub-section 9 (7A) or
section 82D is applicable in relation to an officer or employee, the officer
or employee may, as provided in the regulations and in determinations under
that sub-section or section, as the case may be, be paid increments of salary
in accordance with that scale.".

(2) Where, immediately before the commencement of this section, an order under
sub-section 31 (4) of the Principal Act, or a determination made in accordance
with regulations in force for the purposes of section 31 of the Principal Act,
was in force in relation to an officer, that order or determination continues
to have effect in relation to that officer for the purposes of any
determination in force under sub-section 9 (7A) or section 82D of the
Principal Act as amended by this Act with respect to the payment of increments
of salary, and an appeal against that order may be instituted, continued or
determined, as the case may be, as if the amendment of the Principal Act made
by sub- section (1) of this section had not been made.