EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
COMMONWEALTH EMPLOYEES (REDEPLOYMENT AND RETIREMENT) REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT)
STATUTORY RULES 1984 NO. 133
Issued with the authority of the Public Service Board
Sub-section 29(1) of the Commonwealth Employees (Redeployment and Retirement Act 1979 (the Act) provides, inter alia, that the Governor-General may make regulations prescribing all matters which by the Act are required or permitted to be prescribed or which are necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to the Act.
Sub-section 33(3) of the Acts interpretation Act 1901 provides, inter alia, that where an Act confers a power to make regulations the power shall, unless the contrary intention appears, be construed as including a power to vary such regulations.
The regulations amend the Commonwealth Employees (Redeployment and Retirement) Regulations to provide terminology consistent with that inserted in the Act and the Public Service Act 1922 by the Public Service Reform Act 1984, being the abolition of the office of “Permanent Head” and its replacement by the office of “Secretary”.