REPUBLIC OF NAURU

(No. 20 of 1972)

AN ACT

(Certified: 7/11/1972.)

Be it enacted by the Parliament of Nauru as follows:

SHORT TITLE

1. This Act may be cited as the Nauru Police Force (Amendment) Act 1972.

INTERPRETATION

2. In this Act, "the principal Act" means the Nauru Police Force Act 1972.

AMENDMENT OF SECTION 8 OF THE PRINCIPAL ACT

3. Section 8 of the principal Act is amended by inserting in subsection (2) before the first word thereof the words -

"The Director, if he is a Nauruan citizen, and".

AMENDMENT TO SECTION 9 OF THE PRINCIPAL ACT

4. Section 9 of the principal Act is amended by deleting the words and figures "Superannuation Ordinance 1966-1967" in sub-paragraph (i) of paragraph (b) of sub-section (4) and by substituting therefor "Superannuation Act 1966-1968".

AMENDMENT OF SECTION 11 OF THE PRINCIPAL ACT

5. Section 11 of the principal Act is amended by deleting the full-stop at the end thereof and substituting a colon and by adding the following proviso -

"Provided that the Chief Secretary may, with the written approval of the Minister, waive the requirement of notice or abbreviate the period of the notice."

AMENDMENT OF SECTION 12 OF THE PRINCIPAL ACT

6. Section 12 of the principal Act is amended by deleting the full-stop at the end of subsection (2) thereof and substituting a colon and by adding the following proviso to that subsection -

"Provided that the Director may, if he thinks fit, waive the requirement of notice or abbreviate the period of notice in respect of any officer."

ADDITION OF A NEW SECTION 22A TO THE PRINCIPAL ACT

7. The principal Act is amended by the addition of the following new section 22A -

"SALARIES, PROVIDENT FUND AND SUPERANNUATION

22A. (1) The salaries of police officers shall be paid out of the Treasury Fund from moneys appropriated for that purpose by Parliament on scales prescribed in regulations made by the Cabinet on the advice of the Minister.

(2) The Director may from time to time grant to an officer of the Force such annual increment in salary as may be prescribed in regulations made in accordance with subsection (1):

Provided that such increment shall not be paid at intervals of less than one year.

(3) The payment of an annual increment in salary to any officer may be postponed for a period of not more than six months if the Director considers that it should be so postponed on account of the unsatisfactory conduct, lack of diligence or efficiency or poor record of attendance for duty of the officer during the twelve months immediately preceding the date when the increment would otherwise have been granted, and in that event the officer shall not receive the increment in salary in respect of the period for which its payment is postponed.

(4) Where the payment of an increment in salary is postponed under the last preceding subsection, the Director shall notify the officer concerned in writing of the reason for, and the period of, such postponement.

(5) Notwithstanding the proviso to subsection (2), where payment of an increment in salary to any officer has been postponed under section (3), the next annual increment, if any is due, shall be granted on the anniversary of the date on which the increment which was postponed would normally have been granted, unless the payment of that next annual increment is itself postponed under subsection (3).

(6) A person appointed as a constable may, on appointment, with the written approval of the Minister, be granted by the Director increments within the salary scale of his rank in recognition of relevant experience.

(7) The Director may, with the written approval of the Minister, from time to time grant to an officer of the Force one or more increments of salary within the salary scale of his rank in recognition of outstanding service:

Provided that any such increment shall be granted at the same time as the annual increment is granted and shall be additional to it.

(8) For the purpose of interpreting the provisions of the Provident Fund Ordinance 1938-1967 and the Superannuation Act 1966-1968 -

(a) the definition of "officer" in that Ordinance and that Act shall be deemed to include an officer of the Force who -

(i) is a Nauruan citizen; or

(ii) not being a Nauruan citizen, is not the Director; and

(b) an officer of the Force who, not being a Nauruan citizen, is the Director shall be deemed to be "a person who is employed by the Administration otherwise than as an employee in the Public Service of Nauru"."

I HEREBY CERTIFY that the attached document is a fair print of an Act entitled the Nauru Police Force (Amendment) Act, 1972 that has been made by Parliament and is now presented to the speaker for his Certificate under Article 47 of the Constitution.

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Clerk of Parliament
7/11/1972

Pursuant to Article 35 (3) and 47 of the Constitution, I, KENAS AROI, Speaker of Parliament HEREBY CERTIFY that the Nauru Police Force (Amendment) Act, 1972 a copy of which is attached, has been passed by Parliament.

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Speaker
7/11/1972

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