Navigation (Marine Council) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1952. No. 59.

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE NAVIGATION ACT 1912-1950.*

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 Navigation Act 1912-1950.

Dated this twenty-fourth day of July, 1952.

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for Shipping and Transport.

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Amendment of the Navigation (Marine Council) Regulations 1919.

1. Regulation 9 of the Navigation (Marine Council) Regulations 1919 is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

Fees, travelling allowance and fares.

“9.—(1.) The chairman of a Committee of Advice is entitled to receive a fee of Four pounds four shillings for each day or part of a day on which he attends a meeting of the Committee.

“(2.) A member, or the deputy of a member, of the Marine Council or a member, other than the chairman, of a Committee of Advice is entitled to receive a fee of Two pounds two shillings for each day or part of a day on which he attends a meeting of the Council or of the Committee, as the case may be.

“(3.) Where a member, or the deputy of a member, of the Marine Council or a member of a Committee of Advice, in order to attend a meeting of the Council or of the Committee, as the case may be, is necessarily absent overnight from his place of residence, he is entitled to receive travelling allowance at the rate of Two pounds ten shillings per day during the time he is necessarily absent from his place of residence.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1952

  Statutory Rules 1919, No. 294, as amended by Statutory Rules 1921, No. 208; 1922, No. 39; and 1945, No. 62.

2358.—Price 3d. 9/23.6.1952.

 

“(4.) Where a member, or the deputy of a member, of the Marine Council or a member of a Committee of Advice attends a meeting of the Council or of the Committee, as the case may be, held in a city or town other than that in which he resides—

(a)he is entitled, for the purpose of attending the meeting, to travel first-class by rail or air, at the cost of the Commonwealth, from the city or town where he resides to the city or town where the meeting is held and, on the completion of the meeting, from the city or town where the meeting was held to the city or town where he resides; or

(b) if he does not travel by rail or air, he is entitled to receive the amount of the first-class rail or air fare, whichever is the less.

“(5.) In this regulation, “chairman” and “member” do not include a person who is an officer of the Public Service of the Commonwealth.”.

Commencement.

2. These Regulations shall be deemed to have come into operation on the first day of January, 1952.

 

By Authority: L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.