EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
STATUTORY RULES 1984 No. 204
REMUNERATION TRIBUNALS (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT)
These regulations amend the Remuneration Tribunals (Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations to repeal a number of regulations which are no longer in use, to streamline the format, and to introduce some new provisions.
Regulations 1 and 3 relate to exceptions to sub-section 7(11) of the Remuneration Tribunals Act 1973, which provides that certain full-time public servants and other Commonwealth employees may not receive remuneration for holding a part-time public office, except as prescribed or authorised by another law of the Commonwealth or a Territory. Three types of changes to the prescribed exceptions have been made:
(1) the repeal of five regulations which are no longer needed because offices have been abolished or rendered non-remunerative, or because particular officeholders are no longer full-time Commonwealth employees;
(2) a streamlined format in which the individual regulations which prescribe existing exceptions are replaced by a single regulation (proposed new Regulation 6) and a Schedule; and
(3) the addition of three new exceptions.
Regulation 2 repeals a regulation which brought the office of member of the Aboriginal Corporation of the National Aboriginal Conference within the jurisdiction of the Remuneration Tribunal. That office is now specifically mentioned in the Remuneration Tribunals Act.