Statutory Rules
1979 No. 168
REGULATIONS
UNDER THE LAW REFORM COMMISSION ACT 19731
I, THE
GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of
the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Law Reform Commission Act 1973.
Dated
this fifteenth day of August 1979.
ZELMAN COWEN
Governor-General
By
His Excellency’s Command,
P. DURACK
Attorney-General
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LAW REFORM COMMISSION
(ALLOWANCES) REGULATIONS
Citation
1. These Regulations may be
cited as the Law Reform Commission (Allowances) Regulations.
Allowances
payable to relevant member
2. (1) Subject to any
determination made under the Remuneration
Tribunals Act 1973, where it is necessary for a relevant member to take up
residence at the place at which he is required to take up the performance of
the duties of his office, there shall be payable to that relevant member the
allowances that would be payable to him under regulations 93 and 97 of the
Public Service Regulations as amended and in force from time to time if his
appointment to be a member were an appointment to be an officer of the
Australian Public Service.
(2)
In sub-regulation (1), “relevant member” means a person who—
(a)
is appointed to be a full-time member; and
(b)
is required to take up the performance of the duties of his office at a place
other than the place at which he was residing at the time of his appointment.
Allowances
payable to full-time member
3. Subject to any
determination made under the Remuneration
Tribunals Act 1973, a full-time member is entitled to be paid such
allowances as would be payable to him under regulations 90a, 90aA,
90b and 90c of the Public Service Regulations as amended and in force
from time to time if he were an officer of the Australian Public Service.
Performance
of functions in relation to allowances
4. For the purposes of
these Regulations, any function that is required to be performed by the Public
Service Board or a Chief Officer of a Department in relation to the payment to
an officer of the Australian Public Service of an allowance referred to in regulation
3 or 4 of these Regulations shall, in relation to the payment of an allowance
under these Regulations, be performed by the Minister.
NOTE
1.
Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia
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