Trade Commissioners Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules

1977 No. 71

REGULATION UNDER THE TRADE COMMISSIONERS ACT 1933.*

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 Trade Commissioners Act 1933.

Dated this second day of June, 1977.

A. R. CUTLER

Administrator.

By His Excellency’s Command,

J. D. ANTHONY

Minister of State for Overseas Trade.

 

Amendment of the Trade Commissioners Regulations

Regulation 7 of the Trade Commissioners Regulations is repealed and the following regulation substituted:—

Travelling allowance outside Australia.

“ 7. (1) Where regulation 6 does not apply and a Commissioner, if he were an officer of the Australian Public Service, would be entitled to payments by way of travelling allowance, he shall be entitled to those payments by way of travelling allowance as if he were an officer of the Australian Public Service.

“ (2) Payments under sub-regulation (1) shall be made—

(a) in the case of an Assistant Trade Commissioner, or a Trade Commissioner who is classified as a Trade Commissioner Grade C, at the general rate applicable to an officer of the Australian Public Service; or

(b) in any other case, at the rate applicable to officers of the Second Division of the Australian Public Service.

“ (3) An entitlement of a Commissioner 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.

“ (4) 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 Public Service Board or the Chief Officer of a Department may, in relation to an entitlement given by that sub-regulation, be performed by the Minister.”.

 

* Notified in the Australian Government Gazette on 7 June 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