This Act may be cited as the Government Railways Amendment Act, 1912, and shall form part of and be read together with the Government Railways Act, 1908 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

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

The Third Schedule to the principal Act and the Schedule to the Government Railways Amendment Act, 1911, are hereby repealed, and the Schedule hereto substituted in lieu thereof.

Section five of the Government Railways Amendment Act, 1910, and section two of the Government Railways Amendment Act, 1911, are hereby repealed.

For the purposes of this Act the Minister, on the first day of April, nineteen hundred and thirteen, 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:

Provided also that with respect to every member the right to advance from one subgrade to another or, where there are no subgrades, the right to receive any increase of pay shall in each case depend upon the efficiency and good conduct of that member, and no such advancement shall be made or increase payable unless the permanent head of the Department certifies in writing that the member is entitled thereto.

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.

Section fifty of the principal Act is hereby repealed.

Section sixty-three of the principal Act is hereby amended by repealing paragraph (c), and substituting the following in lieu thereof:—