This Act may be cited as the Government Railways Department Classification Act, 1907, and shall form part of and be read together with the Government Railways Department Classification Act, 1901 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

This Act shall come into operation on the first day of April, nineteen hundred and eight.

The Schedule to the principal Act is hereby repealed, and the Schedule hereto substituted in lieu thereof.

For the purposes of this Act the Minister, on the first day of April, nineteen hundred and eight, shall cause all members then in the service of the Department to be classified according to the classification set forth in the Schedule hereto, and shall fix each member’s rate of pay and the date on which his first annual increment (if provided by the said Schedule) begins to be payable:

Provided that in no case shall such increment begin earlier than twelve months after the date on which his last previous increment began to be payable.

From such classification there shall be prepared and laid before Parliament each year a list setting out in order of classification the names, status, and pay of each member, and the number of years he has been in the service of the Department.

Sections five and six of the principal Act are hereby repealed.

In addition to the matters concerning which the Governor may make regulations under the authority of the principal Act, he may also make regulations for the following matters:—