Statutory Rules
1976 No. 109
REGULATION UNDER THE OVERSEAS TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT 1946-1973 AS AMENDED BY THE POSTAL AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS COMMISSIONS (TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS) ACT 1975.*
I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulation under the Overseas Telecommunications Act 1946-1973 as amended by the Postal and Telecommunications Commissions (Transitional Provisions) Act 1975.
Dated this twenty-seventh day of May, 1976.
JOHN R. KERR
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
ERIC ROBINSON
Minister of State for Post and Telecommunications.
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Amendment of the Overseas Telecommunications Commission Regulations†
Regulation 8a of the Overseas Telecommunications Commission Regulations is repealed and the following regulation substituted:—
Salary rate for Minister’s approval.
“ 8a. The prescribed rate for the purposes of sub-section 18 (7) of the Act in excess of which the Commission shall not, except with the approval of the Minister, determine the salary of a position (other than the position of the general manager) is the higher of the following rates:—
(a) the rate of $19,030 per annum;
(b) the highest rate per annum in the scale of rates specified in respect of the office of Engineer, Class 5, in the Third Division of the Australian Public Service in the Public Service (Salaries) Regulations as in force at the time the Commission makes its salary determination.”.
* Notified in the Australian Government Gazette on 1 June 1976.
† Statutory Rules 1955, No. 87, as amended by Statutory Rules 1970, No. 197; 1971, Nos. 132 and 168; and 1973, No. 232.