Statutory Rules 1992
No. 434 1
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National Occupational Health and Safety Commission (Allowances)
Regulations
I, The Governor-General of the
Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive
Council, make the following Regulations under the National Occupational
Health and Safety Commission Act 1985.
Dated 17 December 1992.
BILL
HAYDEN
Governor-General
By His Excellency’s Command,
PETER COOK
Minister
of State for Industrial Relations
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Citation
1. T hese Regulations may be cited as
the National Occupational Health and Safety Commission (Allowances)
Regulations.
[NOTE:
These Regulations commence on gazettal: see Acts
Interpretation Act 1901, s. 48.]
Interpretation
2. In these Regulations, unless the contrary
intention appears:
“committee”
means a committee constituted under section 25 of the Act;
“the
Act” means the National Occupational Health and Safety Commission Act
1985.
Allowances for expenses
3. (1) If
a member of the Commission, other than the Chairperson or the Chief Executive
Officer, travels with the approval of the Chairperson for the purposes of the
Commission, the Executive, a committee or a working party, an allowance is
payable in respect of the expenses of the member for the travel as if
travelling allowance payable to a Senior Executive Service officer of the
Australian Public Service were payable to the member.
(2) If a member of a committee, or of a working
party, who is not a member of the Commission, travels with the approval of the
Chairperson for the purposes of the committee or working party, an allowance is
payable in respect of the expenses of the member for the travel as if
travelling allowance payable to an officer of the Australian Public Service,
other than the Secretary to a Department or a Senior Executive Service officer,
were payable to the member.
(3) A reference in subregulation (1) to a member
of the Commission includes a reference to a person who:
- (a)
is appointed under subsection 11 (1) of
the Act to be the alternate of a member of the Commission; and
- (b)
travels with the approval of the Chairperson
to attend a meeting of the Commission as the alternate of the member.
(4) Subregulations (1) and (2) do not apply to:
- (a)
a member of, or a candidate for election to,
the Parliament of the Commonwealth, the Parliament of a State or the
legislature of a Territory; or
- (b)
an officer or employee of the Commonwealth or
of a Commonwealth authority.
Repeal
4. Statutory Rules 1985 No. 385 are repealed.
NOTE
1. Notified in the Commonwealth
of Australia Gazette on 24 December 1992.