Statutory Rules
1984 No. 2211
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Members of
Parliament (Staff) Regulations
I, THE
DEPUTY OF THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with
the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following
Regulations under the Members of
Parliament (Staff) Act 1984.
Dated
30 August 1984.
J. A. ROWLAND
Deputy of the
Governor-General
By
His Excellency’s Command,
J. S. DAWKINS
Minister of State for
Finance for and on behalf of the Prime Minister
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Citation
1. These Regulations may
be cited as the Members of Parliament (Staff) Regulations.
Commencement
2. These Regulations shall
come into operation on 1 September 1984.
Interpretation
3. In these Regulations, “the
Act” means the Members of Parliament (Staff) Act 1984.
Appropriate
organizations for the purposes of paragraph 27 (1) (c) of the Act
4. (1) For the purposes of paragraph 27 (1) (c) of the Act, the
appropriate organization to nominate a person is an organization—
(a)
registered under the Conciliation and
Arbitration Act 1904; and
(b)
subject to sub-regulation (2), for which the person to be nominated is eligible
for membership.
(2) Where a person referred
to in sub-regulation (1) is eligible for membership of more than one
organization referred to in that sub-regulation, the appropriate organization
is the organization having among its members the larger or largest number of
officers having the same or equivalent classification as that of that person.
NOTE
1.
Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia
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