Public Works Committee Regulations (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1946. No. 21.

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE COMMONWEALTH PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE ACT 1913-1936.*

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 Commonwealth Public Works Committee Act 1913-1936.

Dated this twenty-third day of January, 1946.

HENRY

Governor-General.

By His Royal Highness’s Command,

H. P. LAZZARINI

for Prime Minister

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Public Works Committee Regulations.

Citation.

1. Those Regulations may be cited as the Public Works Committee Regulations.

Repeal.

2. The Public Works Committee Regulations 1915 (being Statutory Rules 1915, No. 202) are repealed.

Witnesses’ and assessors’ expenses.

3.—(1.) Witnesses appearing before the Committee or a Sectional Committee shall be paid such witnesses’ fees and travelling expenses as the Chairman or Vice-Chairman thinks fit to allow in accordance with the scale of witnesses’ expenses prescribed for witnesses appearing before the High Court.

(2.) Assessors called in to assist the Committee or a Sectional Committee shall be paid such remuneration as the Chairman or Vice-Chairman thinks fit to allow in accordance with the scale of witnesses’ expenses prescribed for witnesses appearing before the High Court.

(3.) In the application of the scale to any such witness or assessor the Chairman or Vice-Chairman, as the case may be, shall have, and may exercise, all the powers and functions of the taxing officer under that scale.

*Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 20th January, 1946.

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

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