Statutory Rules
1974 No. 19
REGULATIONS UNDER THE HOSPITALS AND HEALTH SERVICES COMMISSION ACT 1973.*
I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of Australia, acting with the advice
of the Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Hospitals and Health Services Commission Act 1973.
Dated this twentieth day of February, 1974.
PAUL HASLUCK
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
R. F. X. CONNOR
Minister for Minerals and Energy for and on
behalf of the Minister of State for Health.
HOSPITALS AND HEALTH SERVICES COMMISSION REGULATIONS
Citation.
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Hospitals and Health
Services Commission Regulations.
Remuneration and annual allowance of the
Chairman.
2. In respect of any period of office before 1 January 1975,
the rate of remuneration payable to the Chairman is $25,000 per year and the
rate of annual allowance payable to the Chairman is $1,200 per year.
Remuneration of Commissioners other than
Chairman.
3. In respect of any period of office before 1 January 1975, the rate of remuneration of a
Commissioner, other than the Chairman, is—
(a) in the case of
the Deputy Chairman—$18,995 per year; and
(b) in the case of a full-time Commissioner—$17,489 per year.
Travelling allowance of full-time
Commissioners.
4. (1) Subject to regulation 7, where a full-time
Commissioner is, in the course of performing his duties, necessarily absent
overnight from the city in which he normally resides, travelling allowance is
payable to him in accordance with this regulation.
(2) Subject to sub-regulation (3), travelling allowance in respect of the
period of absence is payable—
(a) in the case of the Chairman—at the rate
of $34 per day; and
(b) in the case of any other full-time
Commissioner—at the rate of $28 per day.
*
Notified in the Australian
Government Gazette
on 21 February 1974.
(3) Travelling allowance payable under this regulation
is in addition to and does not include the cost of conveyance.
Other allowances payable to full-time
Commissioners while serving in Australia.
5.
Subject to regulation 7, a full-time Commissioner is entitled to be paid such
allowances, other than travelling allowance, as would be payable to him under
the Public Service Regulations in force from time to time, if he were an
officer of the Australian Public Service
and were included—
(a) in the case of the Chairman—in the First Division; and
(b) in the case of any other full-time Commissioner—in the
Second Division.
Travelling allowance of part-time
Commissioners and members of Committees.
6. (1)
Subject to sub-regulation (2) where a part-time Commissioner or a member of a
Committee is, in the course of performing his duties, necessarily absent
overnight from the city in which he normally resides, travelling allowance is
payable to him at the rate of $28 per day.
(2) Travelling allowance payable under this regulation
is in addition to and does not include the cost of conveyance.
Allowances in respect of service outside
Australia.
7. (1)
Where a Commissioner (whether full-time or part-time) or a member of a
Committee performs duties outside Australia and the Territories of Australia,
he is entitled to be paid such allowances as he would be entitled to be paid—
(a)
in the case of the Chairman—if he were a Permanent Head of a Department and in
receipt of salary equal to the salary payable to the Director-General of
Health; and
(b)
in the case of any other Commissioner or a member of a Committee—if he were an officer
of the Australian Public Service and were included in the Second Division.
(2) A Commissioner or a member of a Committee who is
entitled to be paid travelling allowance in respect of a period under
sub-regulation (1) of this regulation is not entitled to be paid travelling
allowance in respect of that period under regulation 4 or 6 as the case may be.
Remuneration of part-time Commissioner.
8. The
fee payable to a part-time Commissioner in respect of a day on which he
performs the duties of the office of part-time Commissioner (whether in
attending a meeting of the Commission or being engaged (whether in Australia or
overseas) with the approval of the Commission on business of the Commission, or
both) is—
(a)
if the period or periods during which he performs those duties is not more than
3 hours—$20; or
(b)
if the period or periods during which he performs those duties is more than 3
hours—$35.
Remuneration of member of a Committee.
9. The
fee payable to a member of a Committee in respect of a day on which he performs
the duties of the office of member of a Committee (whether in attending a
meeting of a Committee or being engaged (whether in Australia or overseas) with
the approval of the Commission, on business of a Committee, or both) is—
(a)
if the period or periods during which he performs those duties is not more than
3 hours—$20; or
(b)
if the period or periods during which he performs those duties is more than 3
hours—$35.