Advisory Council for Inter-government Relations (Allowances for Expenses) Regulations (Cth)

Statutory Rules

1977 No. 56

REGULATIONS UNDER THE ADVISORY COUNCIL FOR INTER-GOVERNMENT RELATIONS ACT 1976.*

I, THE ADMINISTRATOR of the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Advisory Council for Inter-government Relations Act 1976.

Dated this fifth day of May, 1977.

A. R. CUTLER

Administrator.

By His Excellency’s Command,

J. L. CARRICK

Minister of State for Education for and on behalf of the Prime Minister.

 

ADVISORY COUNCIL FOR INTER-GOVERNMENT RELATIONS (ALLOWANCES FOR EXPENSES) REGULATIONS

Citation.

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Advisory Council for Inter-government Relations (Allowances for Expenses) Regulations.

Interpretation.

2. (1) In these Regulations, unless the contrary intention appears—

“ Council ” means the Advisory Council for Inter-government Relations established under the Act;

“ the Act ” means the Advisory Council for Inter-government Relations Act 1976.

(2) A reference in these Regulations to a non-Parliamentary member of the Council shall be read as including a reference to a deputy member appointed under sub-section 13 (4) of the Act.

Travelling allowance.

3. (1) Subject to sub-regulation (2), where a non-Parliamentary member of the Council is, by reason of his attendance at meetings of the Council or of his engagement, with the approval of the Council, on the affairs of the Council, necessarily absent from the city or town in which he normally resides or, where he does not normally reside in a city or town, the place at which he normally resides, he is entitled to be paid in respect of that absence such travelling allowance as would be payable to him in respect of that absence under and in accordance with Determination Number 1976/7 of the Remuneration Tribunal (being the determination of that Tribunal that, by virtue of sub-section 7 (5) of the Remuneration Tribunals Act 1973, is to be deemed to have come into operation on 1 June 1976) if—

 

* Notified in the Australian Government Gazette on 9 May 1977.

 

(a) he were a part-time member of the Albury-Wodonga Development Corporation; and

(b) that absence were an absence of such a member of the Albury-Wodonga Development Corporation from his home.

(2) Travelling allowance payable under this regulation is in addition to, and does not include, the cost of conveyance.