EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
Statutory Rules 1983 No 160
Salaries and Wages Pause (Exemptions) Regulations
(Issued by the Authority of the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations)
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 be exercisable by that tribunal or authority.
Regulation 2 of the Salaries and Wages Pause (Exemptions) Regulations (Amendment) inserts new sub-regulation (2) in regulation 3 of the Principal Regulations.
Sub-regulation 3(2) restores power to the authorites listed in Column 2 of Schedule 1A (inserted by regulation 4 of the Salaries and Wages Pause (Exemptions) Regulations (Amendment)) to make a determination flowing on to determination-free (i.e not subject to a determination of the Public Service Arbitrator) or award-free (i.e. not subject to an award of the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission) medical officers employed by the organization in column 4 a determination of the Public Service Arbitrator or the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission in relation to pay adjustments consistent with the National Wage Decision of 14 May 1982 for other medical officers in Commonwealth employment.
Regulation 3 inserts new regulation 7 into the Principal Regulations.
Sub-regulation 7(1) restores power to the Executive of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization to make a determination in respect of determination-free tradesmen and related staff flowing on a determination by the Public Service Arbitrator or the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission reducing the working hours of tradesmen and related staff in that organization who are subject to a determination of the Public Service Arbitrator.
Sub-regulation 7(2) restores power to the Public Service Board to make a determination in respect of determination-free officers and employees of the Department of Defence working at a Defence Research Centre flowing on a determination of the Public Service Arbitrator or the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission reducing the working hours of other officers and employees at Defence Research Centres who are subject to a determination of the Public Service Arbitrator.
Regulation 4 of the Salaries and Wages Pause (Exemptions) Regulations (Amendments) inserts Schedule 1A into the Principal Regulations.
Regulation 5 of the Salaries and Wages Pause (Exemptions) Regulations (Amendment) amends Schedule 3 of the Principal Regulations by inserting items 15 to 18. The effect of inserting items 15 to 18 is to restore power to the Public Service Arbitrator and the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission to determine the claim set out in column 3 of Schedule 3 in respect of staff employed in the kind of employment set out in column 4.