EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
STATUTORY RULES 1984 NO. 271
COMMONWEALTH EMPLOYEES (REDEPLOYMENT AND RETIREMENT) (PRESCRIBED ORGANIZATIONS) REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT)
Issued with the authority of the Public Service Board
Sub-section 7(1) of the Commonwealth Employees (Redeployment and Retirement) Act 1979 provides, inter alia, that the objects of the Act include the ensurance that each employee whose services cannot reasonably be used for a prescribed reason is redeployed on duties which the employee can reasonably be required to perform. Sub-section 7(2) of the Act provides that regulations prescribing any such reason shall not be made until after consultation by the Public Service Board with the organizations, being organizations representing the interests of employees or a class of employees, which are prescribed for the purposes of section 7.
Sub-section 29(1) of the Act enables the Governor-General to make regulations prescribing all matters which are required or permitted to be prescribed.
This regulation amends the Commonwealth Employees (Redeployment and Retirement) (Prescribed Organizations) Regulations, which prescribe the organizations for purposes of consultation, to reflect changes in those organizations since the drafting of the original regulations. Since both the Council of Australian Government Employee Organizations and the Australian Council of Salaried and Professional Associations have amalgamated with the Australian Council of Trade Unions, those two organizations are being omitted from the regulations.