Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts
THIS AGREEMENT made the twenty-fourth day of September One thousand nine
hundred and twenty-four BETWEEN THE COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA (hereinafter
called the "Commonwealth") of the one part and THE STATE OF TASMANIA
(hereinafter called the "State") of the other part
WHEREAS the Commonwealth has agreed with the State that the Commonwealth
Statistician shall compile and issue the Statistics hereinafter mentioned now
being compiled and issued by the Statistical Bureau of the State
NOW IT IS HEREBY AGREED as follows:—
1. (a) THE Commonwealth Statistician shall at the expense of the Commonwealth
compile and issue in the form specified hereunder the following Statistics
relating specially to Tasmania:—
(b) The Commonwealth Statistician shall compile the statistics specified
hereunder but such statistics shall not be printed unless the State has
previously borne or agreed to bear the expense of such printing—
Friendly Society Statistics;
Local Government Statistics;
Social Statistics;
State Financial Statistics.
2. THE Commonwealth undertakes that the Commonwealth Statistician shall supply
information and make estimates and computations to meet the requirements of
the Government of the State in the same way as the Statistician of the State
has done in the past subject however to the approval of the Minister for Home
and Territories of the Commonwealth in any particular case where the
satisfaction of any such requirements would add substantially to the normal
work of the Commonwealth Statistician or his staff.
3. (a) THE Commonwealth shall accept the transfer to the Public Service of the
Commonwealth of each officer of the State who on the first day of October One
thousand nine hundred and twenty-four was and at the date when this agreement
comes into force is engaged in the Statistical Bureau of the State and is an
officer of the permanent service of the State Provided that any officer who
was at the establishment of the Commonwealth in the Public Service of the
State shall not be so transferred unless he has previously agreed in writing
with the Commonwealth that he may be retired from the Public Service of the
Commonwealth under the provisions of the Commonwealth Public Service Act 1922
or any Statutory modification thereof:
(b) Each officer so transferred—
(i) shall be subject in all respects to the laws for the time being of the
Commonwealth regulating the Public Service; and
(ii) shall on transfer receive salary at a rate equal to the rate of the
salary which he received in the service of the State immediately prior
to his transfer. Such salary shall not be reduced except in accordance
with the laws for the time being of the Commonwealth regulating the
Public Service;
(c) Each Junior Officer so transferred who is undergoing a course of
technical training at an University in Tasmania under the present
direction of the Statistician of the State shall after transfer (if he
shall have agreed with the Commonwealth in writing to serve in the
Public Service of the Commonwealth if required by the Commonwealth so
to do for a period of not less than five years after graduation)
receive from the Commonwealth from time to time a refund of the amount
of University fees paid by him while completing his course under the
direction of the Commonwealth Statistician or an equivalent of such
fees in salary Provided that any such refund shall be made or
equivalent salary paid only so long as the officer is making progress
satisfactory to the Commonwealth Statistician;
(d) Each officer so transferred shall be treated by the Commonwealth in
all respects with regard to payment of gratuities in the same way as
other officers transferred from the State to the Commonwealth are
treated.
4. EACH officer temporarily employed in the Statistical Bureau of the State at
the date when this agreement comes into force whom the Commonwealth shall be
willing to employ shall be employed during good behaviour by the Commonwealth
under exemption from the Commonwealth Public Service Act in the Tasmanian
Office of the Commonwealth Statistician at a rate of salary approved by the
Board of Commissioners appointed pursuant to the Commonwealth Public Service
Act 1922 Notwithstanding anything in this clause contained the employment of
any officer employed by the Commonwealth under this clause may be determined
by the Commonwealth at any time. No such temporary officer shall upon the
termination of his employment have any right against the Commonwealth for
compensation superannuation allowance or pension or in any other respect.
5. THE State undertakes to provide rent free for the Commonwealth Statistician
the accommodation now provided for the Statistical Bureau of the State or an
equivalent thereof in some convenient situation in Hobart until such time as
the Commonwealth shall otherwise provide.
6. (a) THE State hereby transfers and assigns free of charge to the
Commonwealth—
(i) All books papers and Statistical Records in the charge of the
Statistician of the State and used by the Statistical Bureau of the
State other than the records of the registration of births, deaths and
marriages;
(ii) The furniture and equipment now used by the Statistician of the State
as set forth in the Schedule annexed hereto to hold to the
Commonwealth absolutely.
(b) The State shall not be required to provide for renewals of or
additions to such furniture or equipment.
7. THE State undertakes to make available to the Commonwealth Statistician the
services of the Police of the State in connexion with the collection of
Statistics in the same way as they have hitherto been available to the
Statistician of the State.
8. THE Commonwealth agrees to pay all postage and freight in connexion with
Statistics collected by the Police of the State under this Agreement and to
refund out-of-pocket expenses incurred by Police Officers in the collection of
these Statistics. The Commonwealth Statistician will communicate directly with
the Commissioner of Police of the State in reference to this matter.
9. THE State may at its discretion appoint the Deputy Statistician of the
Commonwealth for Tasmania to be Statistician of the State and as such to
exercise the powers and to perform the duties hereinafter set forth of the
Statistician of the State under the laws of the State namely—
(a) To act as a member of the Board of the Police Provident Fund and of
the Troop-horse Fund;
(b) To carry out duties in connexion with Friendly Societies under the
Friendly Societies Act 1888;
(c) To give certificates of fact in accordance with the terms of various
other Statutes but no additional duty shall be placed by Statute of
the State upon the Statistician of the State without the consent of
the Commonwealth.
10. THIS agreement shall have no force or effect and shall not be binding on
either party unless and until it is approved by the Parliament of the
Commonwealth and also by the Parliament of the State.
11. THIS Agreement shall commence and come into full force and effect upon the
date upon which it shall have been approved by both the Parliament of the
Commonwealth and the Parliament of the State.
12. IN this Agreement the term "Commonwealth Statistician" means the
Commonwealth Statistician or the person for the time being performing the
duties of the Commonwealth Statistician.
AS WITNESS the hand and seal of the Minister for Home and Territories of the
Commonwealth of Australia for and on behalf of the said Commonwealth and the
hand and seal of the Premier of the State of Tasmania for and on behalf of the
said State the day and year first above written.
SIGNED SEALED AND DELIVERED
by the Minister of State for Home and Territories of the Commonwealth of
Australia for and on behalf of the said Commonwealth in the presence of—
G. F. PEARCE (L.S.)
J. G. McLAREN
SIGNED SEALED AND DELIVERED by the Premier of the State of
Tasmania for and on behalf of the said State in the presence of—
J. A. LYONS (L.S.)
P. J. STRUTT