STATUTORY RULES
1971 No.
REGULATIONS
UNDER THE COMPENSATION (COMMONWEALTH EMPLOYEES) ACT 1971.*
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 Compensation (Commonwealth Employees) Act 1971.
Dated this fourth day of June,
1971.
Paul Hasluck
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s
Command,
Sgd. W. C. Wentworth
Minister of State for
Social Services.
COMPENSATION
(REMUNERATION AND ALLOWANCES) REGULATIONS
Citation.
1. These Regulations may be
cited as the Compensation (Remuneration and Allowances) Regulations.
Definition.
2. In these Regulations, “the
Act” means the Compensation (Commonwealth Employees) Act 1971.
Remuneration.
3. In respect of any period
of office before the thirty-first day of December, 1971—
(a) the salary payable to the Commissioner is Fourteen thousand
seven hundred and twenty-seven dollars per year; and
(b) the remuneration payable to a person constituting a
Compensation Tribunal, being a person appointed for a period of not less than
one year, is Seventeen thousand one hundred and seventy-two dollars per year.
Travelling allowances.
4.—(1.) Subject to regulation
6 of these Regulations, where the Commissioner is necessarily absent from
Canberra overnight, or a person constituting a Compensation Tribunal is
necessarily absent from his head-quarters overnight, in the course of
performing his duties, travelling allowance is payable to him in respect of the
period of absence at the rate of Twenty-one dollars per day.
(2.) Travelling allowance payable under this regulation is in addition
to, and does not include, the cost of conveyance.
Other allowances payable
while in Australia.
5. Subject to the next
succeeding regulation, the Commissioner or a person constituting a Compensation
Tribunal is entitled to be paid such allowances, other than travelling
allowance, as would be payable to him under the Public Service Regulations, as
in force from time to time, if he were an officer of the Public Service of the
Commonwealth and were included in the Second Division.
* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 1971.
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Allowances payable while
outside Australia.
6.—(1.) Where the Commissioner or a person constituting a Compensation Tribunal
performs duties outside Australia and theTerritories of the
Commonwealth, he is entitled to be paid such allowances as he would be entitled to be
paid if he were an officer of the Public Service of the Commonwealth and were
included in the Second Division.
(2.) Where the Commissioner or a person constituting a Compensation Tribunal is entitled to be paid
travelling allowance in respect of a period under sub-regulation (1.) of this
regulation, he is not entitled to be paid travelling allowance in respect of
that period under regulation 4 of these Regulations.
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