Therapeutic Substances Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1962. No. 56.

 

REGULATION UNDER THE THERAPEUTIC SUBSTANCES ACT 1953-1959.*

I, THE ADMINISTRATOR of the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulation under the Therapeutic Substances Act 1953-1959.

Dated this fifth day of July, 1962.

DALLAS BROOKS

Administrator

By His Excellency’s Command,

 

(sgd) H. W. Wade

Minister of State for Health.

 

Amendment of the Therapeutic Substances Regulations.

Regulation 26 of the Therapeutic Substances Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

Remuneration and allowances of members of Committees.

“26.—(1.) This regulation does not apply to a member of a Committee who is an officer of the Public Service of the Commonwealth or of a State.

“(2.) A member of a Committee who attends a meeting of the Committee shall be paid a remuneration at the rate of Seven pounds seven shillings for each day on which he attends a meeting of the Committee.

“(3.) A member of a Committee who is necessarily absent from his home overnight in connexion with his attendance at a meeting of a Committee shall be paid a travelling allowance—

(a) at a daily rate of Five pounds five shillings for each complete day during which he is so absent; or

(b)at an hourly rate that is one twenty-fourth part of the daily rate for each hour or part of an hour if the period during which he is so absent amounts to less than a day or consists of a number of days plus a number of hours.

“(4.) The payment of a travelling allowance shall be in addition to the cost of transport fares.

“(5.) The cost of return transport fares actually and necessarily incurred by a member of a Committee in travelling between his place of residence and the place where the meeting of the Committee is held shall be borne by the Commonwealth.”.

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 12th July, 1962.

  Statutory Rules 1956, No. 4, as amended by Statutory Rules 1956, No. 113; 1957, No. 64; 1958, No. 21; 1959, No. 14; and 1961, No. 49.

 

By Authority: A. J. Arthur, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.

211/62.—Price 3d. 10/4.4.1962.