National Health Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES

1970 No. 70

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE NATIONAL HEALTH ACT 1953-1969.*

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 National Health Act 1953-1969.

Dated this twentieth day of May,1970.

Paul Hasluck

Governor General,

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for Health.

 

Amendment of the National Health Regulations 

Fees and allowances to members of Committees.

1. Regulation 23 of the National Health Regulations is amended by omitting sub-regulation (3.) and inserting in its stead the following sub-regulation:—

“(3.) The Chairman or a member of a Committee who is necessarily absent from his home overnight in connexion with his attendance at a meeting of the Committee shall be paid travelling allowance, in respect of his absence—

(a) if the period of absence is a complete day or longer—

(i) at the daily rate of Twenty-one dollars for each complete day in the period of absence; and

(ii) at an hourly rate that is one-twenty-fourth part of the daily rate set out in the last preceding sub-paragraph for each hour, or part of an hour, in the remainder (if any) of the period of absence; or

(b) if the period of absence is less than a complete day—at an hourly rate that is one-twenty-fourth part of the daily rate set out in sub-paragraph (i) of the last preceding paragraph for each hour, or part of an hour, in the period of absence.”.

Application.

2. The amendment of the National Health Regulations effected by the last preceding regulation applies in relation to a period of absence that commenced on the fourteenth day of February, 1969, or any subsequent day.

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 28 May 1970.

  Statutory Rules 1954, No. 35, as amended by Statutory Rules 1957, No. 71: 1958, No. 63: 1962, Nos. 55, 70 and 113; 1965, Nos. 17, 94 and 185; 1966, No. 99; 1967, No. 86; and 1969, Nos. 91 and 220.

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