EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
STATUTORY RULES 1986 NO 113
LONG SERVICE LEAVE (COMMONWEALTH EMPLOYEES) REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT)
Issued with the authority of the Public Service Board
Section 26 of the Long Service Leave (Commonwealth Employees) Act 1976 (‘the Act’) provides that the Governor-General may make regulations prescribing all matters which are required or permitted to be prescribed, for carrying out or giving effect to the Act.
The statutory rules repeal regulation 9 and Schedule 3 of the Long Service Leave (Commonwealth Employees) Regulations. Section 4 of the Act previously provided that all authorities established or constituted by or under a law of an internal Territory fell within the definition of “public authority of the Commonwealth” unless the authority was established under a law of the Northern Territory and was declared by the Regulations not to be “a public authority of the Commonwealth”. Regulation 9 prescribed Northern Territory authorities set out in Schedule 3 to the Regulations for that purpose.
Section 36 of the Public Service and Statutory Authorities Amendment Act 1985 repealed the previous definition of “public authority of the Commonwealth” so that Northern Territory authorities are no longer automatically included unless included by regulation. Section 36 was proclaimed on 1 April 1986. Accordingly regulation 9 and Schedule 3 have been repealed.