EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
Statutory Rules 1983 No 69
Salaries and Wages Pause (Exemptions) Regulations
(Issued by the Authority of the Minister for Finance for and on behalf of the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations)
The purpose of these regulations is to provide exemptions to enable a number of outstanding matters in Commonwealth employment areas to be finalised.
Sub-section 10(2) of the Salaries and Wages Pause Act 1982 provides that the Governor-General may make regulations conferring during the prescribed period powers on a specified tribunal or authority being a tribunal or authority referred to in sections 7, 8 and 9 in relation to a specified matter or in relation to matters included in a specified class of matters being powers that would but for that section by exercisable by that tribunal or authority.
Regulation 3 restores power to the relevant tribunal or authority in relation to the making or varying of an award or determination, or the making, varying or certifying of an industrial agreement so as to increase the rates, or minimum rates of remuneration payable to certain Commonwealth employees. Schedule 1 contains the relevant information in relation to the matters provided for in regulation 3.
Sub-regulation 4(1) restores power to the relevant tribunal or authority in relation to the making or varying of an award or determination or the making or varying of an industrial agreement so as to increase the rates, or minimum rates of various allowances payable to certain Commonwealth employees. Schedule 2 contains the relevant information in relation to the matters provided for in sub-regulation 4(1).
Sub-regulation 4(2) restores power to the Australian Telecommunications Commission so as to increase the rates, or minimum rates, of site allowance, or to establish a new site allowance payable to officers or employees of that Commission who, in the course of their employment with that Commission, undertake work on building and construction sites, being an increase of site allowance, or the establishment of a new site allowance, that is treated as flowing on from an increase, or a new allowance that has been approved by the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission or a State industrial authority.
Regulation 5 restores power to the relevant tribunal or authority in relation to the making or varying of an award or determination for the purposes of certain claims by Commonwealth employees. Schedule 3 contains the relevant information in relation to the matters provided for in regulation 5.