EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
STATUTORY RULES 1982 No. 112
Issued by Authority of the Minister for Primary Industry
DEFENCE (RE-ESTABLISHMENT LOANS) REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT)
Part VI of the Defence (Re-establishment) Act provides for making loans to ex-service personnel who need assistance to re-establish themselves in civil life after discharge from the services. Loans for re-establishment in agricultural occupations are administered by the Department of Primary Industry.
The occupants of the offices First Assistant Secretary, Agriculture and Food Services Division and the Assistant Secretary, Grants Administration and Farm Services Branch in that Division are specified as prescribed authorities for the purposes of Part VI of the Act.
These two positions were abolished in a recent Departmental re-organisation. It is therefore necessary to amend the regulations to describe new offices whose occupants will be prescribed authorities.
The new offices to be prescribed are the First Assistant Secretary, Development and Co-ordination Division and the Assistant Secretary, Production Branch in the same Division.