EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
STATUTORY RULES 1984 No 295
REMUNERATION AND ALLOWANCES REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) Issued with the authority of the Public Service Board
Sub-section 17(1) of the Remuneration and Allowances Act 1973 provides -
17.(1) Where a person appointed to hold a statutory office in a full-time capacity was, immediately before his appointment, the holder in a full-time capacity of another statutory office or an officer (including an unattached officer) of the Public Service or an officer in the service of a body corporate established for a public purpose by or under an Act, he shall, if the regulations so provide, be paid, during the period of his appointment (including any period of re-appointment) to the first-mentioned statutory office, in lieu of the remuneration and annual allowance (if any) payable in respect of that office, remuneration at such rate and an annual allowance at such rate (if any) as are specified in, or ascertained in accordance with, the regulations.
Sub-section 17(2) provides -
(2) The Governor-General may make regulations prescribing all matters permitted to be prescribed by this section.
In separate papers (Department of Finance Minute 1984/20 refers) it is recommended that Lawrence John Willett be appointed as Chairman of the Superannuation Fund Investment Trust.
The remuneration determined by the Remuneration Tribunal for the office of Chairman of the Superannuation Fund Investment Trust is equivalent to that payable to an officer in the Australian Public Service having a classification of Senior Executive Level 5.
Cabinet has agreed that Mr Willett should continue to receive remuneration and allowances at the rate payable from time to time to the Director-General of Health.
The regulation provides that in lieu of the remuneration and annual allowance determined by the Remuneration Tribunal in respect of the office of Chairman of the Superannuation Fund Investment Trust, Mr Willett, as the holder of that office is to be paid the remuneration and annual allowance applicable to the office of Director-General of Health.