EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
Statutory Rules 1989 No 144
Public Service Regulations (Amendment)
(Issued by the Authority of the Prime Minister)
Joint Council is established and constituted under subregulation 72B(1) of the Public Service Regulations. As previously constituted, Joint Council comprised:
(a) a Chairperson nominated by the Secretary to the Department of Industrial Relations;
(b) a representative of that Department nominated by the Secretary to that Department;
(c) a representative of the Public Service Commissioner nominated by the Public Service Commissioner;
(d) 7 departmental representatives nominated by Secretaries, as requested by the Secretary to the Department of Industrial Relations; and
(e) 9 representatives of organisations of officers and employees nominated as follows:
(i) 8 by the Australian Council of Trade Unions; and
(ii) one by the Australian Council of Professional Associations.
Under section 97 of the Public Service Act 1922 (the Act), the Governor-General may make regulations, not inconsistent with the Act, prescribing matters required or permitted by the Act to be prescribed, or necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to the Act.
A regulation to replace existing paragraph 72B(1)(e) of the Public Service Regulations with a new paragraph 72B(1)(e) to provide that all representatives on Joint Council nominated under that paragraph are nominated by the Australian Council of Trade Unions has been made. The amending regulation operates from the date of gazettal.