Northern Territory Administrator's Council (Fees, Allowances and Expenses) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES

1969 No.

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE NORTHERN TERRITORY (ADMINISTRATION) ACT 1910-1968.*

THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, I, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Northern Territory (Administration) Act 1910-1968.

Dated this  day of  , 1969.

Paul Hasluck

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

 

Minister of State for the Interior.

 

AMENDMENTS OF THE NORTHERN TERRITORY ADMINISTRATOR’S COUNCIL (FEES, ALLOWANCES AND EXPENSES) REGULATIONS 

Definition.

1. Regulation 4 of the Northern Territory Administrator’s Council (Fees, Allowances and Expenses) Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

“4. In these Regulations, ‘member of the Administrator’s Council’ means a member of the Administrator’s Council who is an elected member of the Legislative Council.”.

Fees of members.

2. Regulation 5 of the Northern Territory Administrator’s Council (Fees, Allowances and Expenses) Regulations is amended by omitting the words “Two hundred and fifty pounds” and inserting in their stead the words “Five hundred and fifty dollars”.

Travelling allowance of members.

3. Regulation 6 of the Northern Territory Administrator’s Council (Fees, Allowances and Expenses) Regulations is amended by omitting the words “Six pounds six shillings” and inserting in their stead the words “Sixteen dollars fifty cents”.

Travelling expenses of members.

4. Regulation 7 of the Northern Territory Administrator’s Council (Fees, Allowances and Expenses) Regulations is amended—

(a) by omitting the word “Where” and inserting in its stead the words “Subject to the next succeeding sub-regulation, where”; and

(b) by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulations:—

(2.) Where—

(a) a member of the Administrator’s Council has made a journey for the purpose of attending a meeting, or for the purpose of attending to business, of the Administrator’s Council; and

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 1969.

  Statutory Rules 1963, No. 109, as amended by Statutory Rules 1966, No. 57.

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(b) the Administrator is of the opinion—

(i) if the member made the journey in a motor vehicle not engaged in public transport—that the journey or a part of the journey could have been made in an aeroplane operating in connexion with a public air transport service; or

(ii) if the member made part of the journey in a motor vehicle not engaged in public transport and part of the journey in an aeroplane operating in connexion with a public air transport service—that the journey, an additional part of the journey or a different part of the journey could have been made in an aeroplane operating in connexion with a public air transport service,

the Administrator shall authorize payment to the member, in respect of the journey, of an amount equal to the prescribed amount or the amount that the Administrator would, but for this sub-regulation, authorize in respect of the journey under sub-regulation (I.) of this regulation, whichever is the less.

“(3.) In the application of the last preceding sub-regulation to a journey made by a member of the Administrator’s Council, the prescribed amount is—

(a) if the Administrator is of the opinion that the journey could have been made in an aeroplane operating in connexion with a public air transport service—an amount equal to the cost of the fare that would have been payable by the member if he had made the journey in such an aeroplane; or

(b) in any other case—an amount equal to the sum of-

(i) the cost of the fare that would have been payable by the member if he had made, in such an aeroplane, the part of the journey that, in the opinion of the Administrator, could have been made in such an aeroplane; and

(ii) the mileage allowance, in accordance with the table in paragraph (c) of sub-regulation (I.) of this regulation, that would be payable if he had made the balance of the journey, or such part of that balance as the Administrator considers reasonable, in the motor vehicle not engaged in public transport in which he in fact made the journey or a part of the journey.

“(4.) A reference in the last preceding sub-regulation to the cost of the fare that would have been payable by the member if he had made the journey or a particular part of the journey in an aeroplane shall be read, in a case where provision was made for persons to travel by either of any two or more classes in the aeroplane, as a reference to the fare that would have been payable by the member if he had travelled by the higher or highest of those classes.”.

Application.

5.—(1.)The fee payable to a member of the Administrator’s Council under regulation 5 of the Northern Territory Administrator’s Council (Fees, Allowances and Expenses) Regulations in respect of service as such a member on and after the twenty-sixth day of October, 1968, is payable at the rate specified in that regulation as amended by regulation 2 of these Regulations.

(2.) Travelling allowance payable to a member of the Administrator’s Council under regulation 6 of the Northern Territory Administrator’s Council (Fees, Allowances and Expenses) Regulations in respect of the twenty-sixth day of October, 1968, or any subsequent day, is payable at the rate specified in that regulation as amended by regulation 3 of these Regulations.

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