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Post and Telegraph Classification Act 1907

Public Act		1907 No 46
Date of assent		19 November 1907

	Title
1	Short Title.
2	Commencement of Act.
3	Repeal.
4	Repeals.
5	Regulations.
	FIRST SCHEDULE
	SECOND SCHEDULE Parts of Acts repealed

An Act to amend the Post and Telegraph Classification and Regulation Act, 1890.

BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

1 Short Title.

This Act may be cited as the Post and Telegraph Classification Act, 1907, and shall form part of and be read together with the Post and Telegraph Classification and Regulation Act, 1890 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

2 Commencement of Act.

This Act shall have effect from the first day of April, nineteen hundred and eight.

3 Repeal.

The First Schedule hereto is hereby substituted for the First Schedule to the principal Act, and all references in the said Act to the First Schedule thereto shall be read accordingly as being references to the First Schedule to this Act.

4 Repeals.

The Acts mentioned in the Second Schedule hereto are hereby repealed to the extent indicated in the said Schedule.

5 Regulations.

In addition to the matters concerning which the Governor may under the principal Act make regulations, he may also make regulations—

(a.)

Prescribing a test of efficiency for officers in the Seventh Class before such officers may receive increments beyond (i) one hundred and sixty-five pounds, and (ii) two hundred pounds:

(b.)

Providing for the payment of an additional sum of sixpence per day to officers of the Twelfth Class who have been fifteen years or upwards in the service of the Department:

(c.)

Providing for the payment of an additional sum of ten pounds per annum to officers who are married, or are widowers or widows with children, and are drawing a salary of less than one hundred and fifty pounds per annum:

(d.)

Providing that no male officer shall, if he is married or is a widower with a child or children, receive a salary of less than one hundred and thirty pounds per annum:

(e.)

Providing that no male officer who is twenty-two years of age or upwards shall receive a salary of less than one hundred pounds per annum.

SCHEDULES

FIRST SCHEDULE

Office or Class.	Minimum.	Maximum.	Increment.
First Division.
	£	£
Secretary	800	1,000	Two annual increments of £100 each.
Superintendent of Electric Lines	750	900	One annual increment of £100, and one of £50.
Assistant Secretary and Inspector	700	800	Two annual increments of £50 each.
Clerical Division.
First Class—
First Grade	550	600	Two annual increments of £25 each.
Second Grade	500	525	One increment of £25.
Second Class	440	475	One annual increment of £20, and one of £15.
Third Class	385	425	Two annual increments of £20 each.
Fourth Class	330	37	Two annual increments of £15 each, and one of £10.
Fifth Class	275	315	Two annual increments of £15 each, and one of £10.
Sixth Glass	200	260	Four annual increments of £15 each.
Seventh Class	120	220	Four annual increments of £15 each, and four of £10 each.
Eighth Class	50	110	Four annual increments of £15 each; with lodging-allowance of £26 for the first year, £20 the second, and £12 the third when officer stationed from home.
Female Staff—
Ninth Class (Matrons, Supervisors, Postmistresses, Telegraphists, Book-keepers),—
First Grade	160	180	Two annual increments of £10 each.
Second Grade	130	150	Two annual increments of £10 each.
Tenth Class (Clerks, Counterwomen, Postmistresses, &c.)	50	120	One annual increment of £10, two of £15 each, and three of £10 each; with lodging- allowance of £20 for the first year and £10 the second when officer stationed from home.
Eleventh Class	40	100	Six annual increments of £10 each; with lodging-allowance of £26 for the first year, £20 the second, and £12 the third when officer stationed from home.
Non-clerical Division.
Twelfth Class (Letter-carriers, Linemen, Mechanics, Porters, Drivers, Night- watchmen, &c.)—
First Grade	180	200	Two annual increments of £10 each.
Second Grade	150	170	Two annual increments of £10 each.
Third Grade	110	140	Three annual increments of £10 each.
Fourth Grade	50	100	Five annual increments of £10 each.
Thirteenth Class	31	40	One increment of £9.

SECOND SCHEDULE Parts of Acts repealed

1890, No. 25.—The Post and Telegraph Classification and Regulation Act, 1890: Section 6.

1894, No. 58.—The Post and Telegraph Department Act, 1894: Section 6.

1902, No. 29.—The Post and Telegraph Department Act, 1902: Sections 2 and 3.

1906, No. 31.—The Post Office Act Amendment Act, 1906: Sections 11 and 12.

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