AN160268 – Public Service Award 1992
(1) An officer who is directed by the employer to act in an office which is classified higher than the officer's own substantive office and who performs the full duties and accepts the full responsibility of the higher office for a continuous period of five (5) consecutive working days or more, shall, subject to the provisions of this clause, be paid an allowance equal to the difference between the officer's own salary and the salary the officer would receive if the officer was permanently appointed to the office in which the officer is so directed to act.
Provided that where the hours of duty of an officer performing shift work are greater than 7½ hours per day as provided for in paragraph (3)(a) of Clause 21. - Shift Work Allowance of this Award the allowance shall be payable after the completion of 37½ consecutive working hours in the higher classified position. This period shall not include any time worked as overtime.
(2) Where the full duties of a higher office are temporarily performed by two (2) or more officers they shall each be paid an allowance as determined by the employer.
(3) An officer who is directed to act in a higher classified office but who is not required to carry out the full duties of the position and/or accept the full responsibilities, shall be paid such proportion of the allowance provided for in subclause (1) of this clause as the duties and responsibilities performed bear to the full duties and responsibilities of the higher office. Provided that the officer shall be informed, prior to the commencement of acting in the higher classified office, of the duties to be carried out, the responsibilities to be accepted and the allowance to be paid.
The allowance paid may be adjusted during the period of higher duties.
(4) Where an officer who has qualified for payment of higher duties allowance under this clause is required to act in another office or other offices classified higher than the officer's own for periods less than five consecutive working days without any break in acting service, such officer shall be paid a higher duties allowance for such periods: provided that payment shall be made at the highest rate the officer has been paid during the term of continuous acting or at the rate applicable to the office in which the officer is currently acting - whichever is the lesser.
(5) Where an officer is directed to act in an office which has an incremental range of salaries such an officer shall be entitled to receive an increase in the higher duties allowance equivalent to the annual increment the officer would have received had the officer been permanently appointed to such office; provided that acting service with allowances for acting in offices for the same classification or higher than the office during the eighteen (18) months preceding the commencement of such acting shall aggregate as qualifying service towards such an increase in the allowance.
(6) Where an officer who is in receipt of an allowance granted under this clause and has been so for a continuous period of twelve (12) months or more, proceeds on -
(a) a period of normal annual leave; or
(b) a period of any other approved leave of absence of not more than four (4) weeks,
the officer shall continue to receive the allowance for the period of leave: provided that this subclause shall also apply to an officer who has been in receipt of an allowance for less than twelve (12) months if during the officer's absence no other officer acts in the office in which the officer was acting immediately prior to proceeding on leave and the officer resumes in the office immediately on return from leave.
(7) For the purpose of this subclause the expression "normal annual leave" shall mean the annual period of recreation leave as referred to in Clause 23. - Annual Leave of this Award and shall include any public holidays and leave in lieu accrued during the preceding twelve (12) months taken in conjunction with such annual leave.
(8) Where officers in receipt of an allowance granted under this clause and proceeds on:
(a) a period of annual leave in excess of the normal, such officers shall only receive payment of such allowance for the period of normal annual leave; and
(b) a period of any other approved leave of absence of more than four (4) weeks, such officers shall not be entitled to receive payment of such allowance for the whole or any part of the period of such leave.
