Transferred Officers' Allowances Act 1948 (Cth)

Transferred Officers' Allowances Act 1948

Act No. 20 of 1948 as amended

This compilation was prepared on 17 October 2000 taking into account amendments up to Act No. 20 of 1956

The text of any of those amendments not in force on that date is appended in the Notes section

Prepared by the Office of Legislative Drafting, Attorney‑General's Department, Canberra

Contents 1 Short title [see Note 1] 2 Commencement 3 Interpretation 4 Additional allowances 5 Further allowances 6 Further allowances from 12th November, 1955 7 Allowances to widows 8 Appropriation

Notes An Act to provide for the payment of Allowances to certain Transferred Officers

1 Short title [see Note 1]

This Act may be cited as the Transferred Officers' Allowances Act 1948.

2 Commencement

This Act shall be deemed to have come into operation on the first day of February, One thousand nine hundred and forty‑eight.

3 Interpretation

In this Act:

the public service of the Commonwealth has the same meaning as in section eighty‑four of the Constitution.

transferred officer means a person who, having been transferred from the public service of a State to the public service of the Commonwealth, is entitled, whether by virtue of section eighty‑four of the Constitution or by virtue of a law of the Commonwealth, to retire, or has retired, from office on the pension or retiring allowance permitted by the law of the State as if his service with the Commonwealth were a continuation of his service with the State.

4 Additional allowances

(1) Where a transferred officer receives from the Commonwealth or from the Commonwealth and from the State from the public service of which he was transferred to the public service of the Commonwealth, a pension or a retiring allowance of a periodical nature and the total amount of the pension or retiring allowance is at a rate less than Three hundred and sixty pounds per annum, there shall be payable to the transferred officer an allowance: (a) if the total amount of the pension or retiring allowance is at a rate which does not exceed Two hundred and eighty‑eight pounds per annum—at the rate of one‑quarter of that amount; or (b) if the total amount of the pension or retiring allowance is at a rate which exceeds Two hundred and eighty‑eight pounds per annum but is less than Three hundred and sixty pounds per annum—at such rate as will increase the total amount of the pension or retiring allowance to Three hundred and sixty pounds per annum.