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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 77

By omitting Regulation 107, and substituting the following :—
“ 107. Depot-chargemen, engine-drivers, night foremen of cleaners, firemen, and cleaners will be paid at one-and-a-quarter times the member’s ordinary rate of pay in each case for all ordinary time worked between the hours of 10 p.m. and 6 a.m.”

By omitting Regulation 108, and substituting the following :—
“ 108. Overtime worked by depot-chargemen, engine-drivers, night foremen of cleaners, firemen, or cleaners will be paid for as follows :—
“ For all time worked in excess of eight hours and not more than twelve hours in any shift, at one-and-a-quarter times the member’s ordinary rate of pay.
“ For all time worked in excess of twelve hours in any shift at one-and-a-half times the member’s ordinary rate of pay.
“ For all time worked in excess of forty-four hours and not more than forty-eight hours in any week, at the member’s classified rate of pay: Provided that, if such time is worked between the hours of 10 p.m. and 6 a.m., payment for such time shall be made at one-and-a-quarter times the member’s ordinary rate of pay.
“ For all time worked in excess of forty-eight hours and not more than sixty hours in any week, at one-and-a-quarter times the member’s ordinary rate of pay.
“ For all time worked in excess of sixty hours in any week, at one-and-a-half times the member’s ordinary rate of pay.”

By omitting from Regulation 110 the first sentence thereof, and substituting the following :—
“ Where payment of an extra rate is specially authorized on account of the nature of the work, members of the Maintenance Branch will be paid at one-and-a-quarter times their ordinary rate of pay in each case for all ordinary time forming part of a regular shift worked between the hours of 6 p.m. and 6 a.m., but otherwise ordinary rates shall be paid for such time.”

By omitting Regulation 112.

By omitting Regulation 113, and substituting the following :—
“ 113. Except as otherwise provided, the rate of payment for overtime shall be one-and-a-half times the member’s ordinary rate of pay in each case.”

By adding to paragraph (1) of Regulation 114 the following proviso :—
“ Provided that time worked on Sunday by any such employee (other than a depot-chargeman, engine-driver, night foreman of cleaners, fireman, or cleaner) when commencing or finishing a shift as part of such employee’s ordinary week’s work shall be paid for at one-and-a-half times such employee’s ordinary rate of pay in each case.”

And by adding the following paragraph to the same regulation :—
“ (5.) No tablet-porter who is duly on duty on any Christmas Day, Good Friday, Sovereign’s Birthday, Labour Day, or Anzac Day shall be booked off duty for any period of less than one hour between the times of being first booked on and finally booked off duty on such day.”

By adding the following regulation :—
“ 114A. The proportion of apprentices to journeymen in the Department shall not exceed the maximum fixed by the trade awards or the general orders made under the Apprentices Act, 1923, by the Court of Arbitration and for the time being current for the various trades.”

By adding the following regulation :—
“ 114B. (1.) Employees (other than depot-chargemen, engine-drivers, night foremen of cleaners, and cleaners), the greater portion of whose hours of duty is between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m., shall not be booked off for more than two meal intervals during their shifts and, except where the exigencies of the service render it impracticable, the second of such intervals shall commence not less than three hours or more than five hours after the commencement of the first.
“ Employees the greater portion of whose hours of duty is between 7 p.m. and 7 a.m. shall not be booked off for more than one meal interval during their respective shifts, such interval to be as nearly as practicable in the middle of the shift. A meal interval shall not be less than half an hour or more than one hour, and if it is impracticable to give an employee a full half-hour for a meal, his time shall (as regards such interval) be booked as continuous.
“ (2.) Shunters when on duty on any shift, the greater part of which lies between the hours of 10 p.m. and 6 a.m., shall be given time off during the shift for a meal. Such time shall not exceed half an hour, and, if less than half an hour, shall be treated as continuous working-time in such shift.”

By adding the following regulation :—
“ 114c. No employee (other than a depot-chargeman, engine-driver, night foreman of cleaners, fireman, or cleaner) shall be booked off duty at his home station between the beginning and the end of a shift for any less continuous period than two hours (including meal-time).”

By omitting clause (ii) of subparagraph (a) of paragraph (2) of Regulation 115, and substituting the following :—
“ When such guard is booked off duty for rest under such circumstances as to entitle him to payment of night allowance, he shall be paid three hours’ standing-time, at his ordinary rate of pay, if the period for which he is booked off duty is less than eight hours; and if such guard is booked off duty during a shift he shall be paid standing time at his ordinary rate of pay for the time booked off up to four hours, but in neither case shall such standing-time be taken into account for the purpose of computing overtime.”

And by adding to clause (i) of subparagraph (b) of paragraph (2) of the same regulation the words—
“ Provided, however, that when a guard is booked off for less than eight hours between shifts he shall be granted two hours’ standing-time.”

By adding to Regulation 125 the following paragraphs :—
“ (3.) The foregoing provisions of this regulation apply only to employees in Division I and to depot-chargemen, engine-drivers, night foremen of cleaners, firemen, and cleaners.
“ (4.) Every employee other than those mentioned in the last preceding paragraph of this regulation who is duly on duty on any of the days mentioned in paragraph (1) hereof shall be entitled, at his option,—
“ (a.) To be paid at his classified rate of pay for the time he is actually on duty on any of such days and to have one day added to the period of his ordinary leave of absence for such year for each of such days; or
“ (b.) To be paid at double his classified rate of pay for a minimum period of six hours for each of such days on which he is duly on duty as aforesaid, but in that event no day shall be added to the period of his ordinary leave of absence in respect of such day.”

By omitting from Regulation 154 the words “ and who is stationed outside a town area (as defined by the Permanent Head) ”; and by omitting the second sentence of the said regulation. This amendment shall be deemed to have come into operation on the 23rd day of October, 1924.

And, with the like advice and consent, and in further pursuance of the said power and authority, His Excellency the Governor-General of the said Dominion doth hereby declare—
(a.) That this Order in Council shall, except as otherwise provided herein, be deemed to have come into operation on the ninth day of November, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-four:
(b.) That the portion of the regulations made under the said Act on the twentieth day of October, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-four, fixing the rates of salary of the First Assistant General Manager and the Second Assistant General Manager shall be deemed to have come into operation on the first day of January, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-four.

C. A. JEFFERY,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council