Trade Commissioners Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules

1977 No. 200

REGULATIONS UNDER THE TRADE COMMISSIONERS ACT 1933*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Trade Commissioners Act 1933.

Dated this twenty-seventh day of October 1977.

JOHN R. KERR

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

J. D. ANTHONY

Minister of State for Overseas Trade

 

AMENDMENTS OF THE TRADE COMMISSIONERS REGULATIONS 

1. After regulation 6a of the Trade Commissioners Regulations the following regulation is inserted:

Vehicle allowance overseas

“ 6b. (1) A Commissioner shall be entitled to be paid by way of vehicle allowance, in respect of the use by him of a private motor vehicle while stationed at a post, such amounts as he would be entitled to be paid in respect of that use if he were an officer of the Australian Public Service.

“ (2) An entitlement under sub-regulation (1) shall be subject to the same conditions that would be applicable in relation to the corresponding entitlement of an officer of the Australian Public Service.

“ (3) Any function that, in relation to an entitlement of an officer of the Australian Public Service, referred to in sub-regulation (1), may be performed by the Head of Post or Head of Mission may, in relation to an entitlement given by that sub-regulation to a Commissioner, be performed by the Minister or by a person authorized by the Minister to perform that function in relation to the Commissioner.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 3 November 1977.

Statutory Rules 1958, No. 52 as amended to date. For previous amendments of the Trade Commissioners Regulations see footnote   to Statutory Rules 1977, No. 7 and see also Statutory Rules 1977, Nos. 7, 47, 60, 71, 72, 99, 187 and 199.

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