Commonwealth Grants Commission Regulations (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1933. No. 87.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE COMMONWEALTH GRANTS COMMISSION ACT 1933.

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Commonwealth Grants Commission Act 1933.

Dated this twenty-sixth day of July, 1933.

ISAAC A. ISAACS

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

J. A. LYONS

Prime Minister.

 

Commonwealth Grants Commission Regulations.

Short title.

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Commonwealth Grants Commission Regulations.

Travelling expenses.

2.—(1.) An allowance at the rate of Two pounds and five shillings per day shall be payable to each member or deputy of a member of the Commission on account of his expenses in travelling to discharge the duties of his office.

(2.) Where a member or the deputy of a member travels by steamer or by railway and the fare paid includes subsistence, one quarter only of the ordinary rate to which the member or deputy of a member would otherwise be entitled shall be allowed.

(3.) The travelling allowance shall be in addition to the cost of conveyance, and the amount of allowance payable in respect of any portion of a day shall be computed on an hourly basis, the hourly rate being one twenty-fourth of the daily rate. The period for which travelling allowance may be claimed shall be computed from the time of departure of to time of arrival on return by the train, steamer, or other conveyance by which a member or deputy of a member travels.

(4.) This regulation shall be deemed to have commenced on the seventeenth day of July One thousand nine hundred and thirty-three.

 

By Authority: L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.

2014.—Price 3d.