Trade Commissioners Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules

1980 No. 282

REGULATIONS UNDER THE TRADE COMMISSIONERS ACT 19331

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 seventeenth day of September 1980.

 ZELMAN COWEN

 Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

J. D. ANTHONY

Minister of State for Trade and Resources

AMENDMENTS OF THE TRADE COMMISSIONERS REGULATIONS2

Interpretation

 1. Regulation 3 of the Trade Commissioners Regulations is amended—

• (a)

  by omitting “China,” and “Korea,” from the definition of “designated post” in sub‑regulation (1);

• (b)

  by inserting “People’s Republic of China,” after “Papua New Guinea,” in the definition of “designated post” in sub-regulation (1);

• (c)

  by omitting “Peru,” from the definition of “designated post” in sub-regulation (1);

• (d)

  by inserting “Republic of Korea,” after “Poland,” in the definition of “designated post” in sub-regulation (1); and

• (e)

  by inserting “, Venezuela” after “United Arab Emirates” in the definition of “designated post”" in sub-regulation (1).

 2. After regulation 40 of the Trade Commissioners Regulations the following regulation is inserted:

Allowance to compensate for losses in emergency situations

• “41.

  (1) A Commissioner shall be entitled to be paid by way of an allowance amounts equal to the amounts he would be entitled to be paid by way of compensation, if he were an officer of the Australian Public Service, in respect of possessions at an overseas post, lost or damaged as a result of war or civil disorders.

• “(2)

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

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

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 25 September 1980.

2. Statutory Rules 1958 No. 52 as amended to date. For previous amendments see