This Act may be cited as the Government Railways Amendment Act, 1920, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Government Railways Act, 1908.

The Schedule to the Government Railways Amendment Act, 1919, is hereby amended as follows:—

This section shall be deemed to have come into operation on the first day of April, nineteen hundred and twenty.

The Minister shall cause all members, probationers, and apprentices in the service of the Department on the first day of April, nineteen hundred and twenty (other than members who are classified in Subdivision I of the First Division), to be classified as on that date in accordance with the classification set forth in the Schedule hereto, and shall fix the rate of pay of each such member, probationer, and apprentice, and the date on which his first annual increment (if any) begins to be payable:

Provided that—

The Governor-General may from time to time make regulations prescribing tests of efficiency for officers in Subgrade 2 and Subgrade 4 of Grade 7 of Subdivision II of the First Division of the Department as classified in accordance with the Schedule hereto.

In addition to the rates of pay herein provided for, the Governor-General may, by Order in Council, prescribe rates of special allowances to be paid to any members of the Second Division residing in isolated places, and may determine the conditions subject to which such allowances shall be payable.

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, probationer, and apprentice, and the length of time be has been in the service of the Department.

Section eighty-four of the principal Act is hereby amended by omitting from subsection one the words “five years” and “seven years,” and in each case substituting the words “three years.”

The Governor-General may, by Proclamation, take any land required as sites for dwellings for the accommodation of employees of the Department, and the provisions of the Public Works Act, 1908, and the principal Act, 19(8, relating to the taking of land for the purpose of a railway shall, with the necessary modifications, apply with respect to the taking of land under the authority of this section.

This section shall not be construed to prevent any such dwelling from being occupied by any person who is not an employee of the Department if in the opinion of the permanent head such occupation is desirable.

If any such dwelling is in the occupation of a person other than an employee of the Department, any Magistrate may, on application in that behalf by the permanent head, make an order of ejectment or for recovery of possession, notwithstanding the provisions of Part I of the War Legislation Amendment Act, 1916, or of any enactment amending the same, if he is satisfied that the dwelling is required by the Department for the occupation of an employee of the Department.