EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
STATUTORY RULES 1983 NO 118
REMUNERATION AND ALLOWANCES REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT)
Issued with the authority of the Public Service Board
Sub-section 17(2) of the Remuneration and Allowances Act 1973 provides (inter alia) that the Governor-General may make regulations prescribing remuneration and allowances of an Australian Public Service Officer who is appointed to hold a statutory office in a full-time capacity.
Sub-section 33(3) of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901 provides (inter alia) that, where an Act confers a power to make regulations, the power shall, unless the contrary intention appears, be construed as including a power to amend those regulations.
The statutory rules provide for a new regulation. The regulation prescribes the remuneration and allowances of a person who, immediately before his appointment to the statutory office of Administrator of the Territory of Christmas Island, was an officer of the Australian Public Service occupying the office of First Assistant Secretary in the Department of Territories and Local Government.
The existing entitlement for the Administrator, Christmas Island is remuneration at a rate equivalent to a Clerk Class 11 in the Australian Public Service plus a special allowance. This entitlement has been determined by the Remuneration Tribunal pursuant to its powers under the Remuneration Tribunals Act 1973. In the absence of the regulation, the intended appointee would be entitled to remuneration at a significantly lower rate.