EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
Statutory Rules 1983 No 141
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 3 of the Principal Regulations 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.
Regulation 2 of the Salaries and Wages Pause (Exemptions) Regulations (Amendment) amends Schedule 1 of the Principal Regulations by adding the items set out in Schedule 1 of the amending regulations. Schedule 1 of the Principal Regulations provides an exemption for those groups of Commonwealth employees directly linked for pay purposes to particular parent awards or determinations who have not yet received movements already determined in their parent awards consistent with the National Wage Decision of the Australian Conciliation an Arbitration Commission of 14 May 1982.
Sub-regulation 4(1), of the Principal Regulations 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).
Regulation 3 of the Salaries and Wages Pause (Exemptions) Regulation (Amendment) amends Schedule 2 of the Principal Regulations by adding the items set out in Schedule 2 of the amending regulations. The allowances referred to in Schedule 2 of the Principal Regulations are allowances which were adjusted for Australian Public Service employees prior to 23 December 1982 and which need to be adjusted for employees in other Commonwealth authorities on the basis of long-standing arrangements whereby those authorities apply Australian Public Service conditions.
Regulation 5 of the Principal Regulations 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.
Regulation 4 of the Salaries and Wages Pause (Exemptions) Regulations (Amendment) amends Schedule 3 of the Principal Regulations by adding the items set out in Schedule 3 of the amending regulations. Items 8 and 9 exempt claims for reduced hours. Items 10, 11 and 12 exempt claims for pay increases, to enable the determination of pay adjustments consistent with the National Wage Decision of the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission of 14 May 1982. Item 13 exempts a claim for a disability component in pay rates. The exemption will enable a decision to be brought down by the
Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission on a matter heard prior to the commencement of the Act. Item 14 exempts a claim for a ratings allowance for Licenced Aircraft Mechanics required to work on a new type of aircraft.