EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
Statutory Rules 1983 No. 150
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-regulations (3) to (8) in regulation 4 of the Principal Regulations.
Sub-regulation 4(3) restores power to the Australian Capital Territory Electricity Authority to extend to its employees site allowances established for building and construction sites by the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission.
Sub-regulation 4(4) restores power to the Minister of State for Defence Support to extend to employees employed under the Supply and Development Act 1939 site allowances approved by the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission in respect of a building and construction site at the Government Aircraft Factory in Victoria.
Sub-regulation 4(5) restores power to the Public Service Board to increase loss of licence insurance allowances payable to air traffic controllers and flying staff within the Department of Aviation.
Sub-regulation 4(6) restores power to the Australian Telecommunications Commission and the Australian Postal Commission to extend existing remote locality allowances to persons employed at Glendon in Queensland.
Sub-regulation 4(7) restores power to the Public Service Board to increase the rates of allowance in respect of the use of private motor vehicles payable to persons within the Department of Primary Industry whose place of employment is a meat works.
Sub-regulation 4(8) restores power to the tribunals or authorities set out in Schedule 2A (inserted by regulation 3 of the Salaries and Wages Pause (Exemptions) Regulations (Amendment)) to increase the rates of overseas travelling allowance payable to Commonwealth employees.
Regulation 3 of the Salaries and Wages Pause (Exemptions) Regulations (Amendment) inserts new Schedule 2A after Schedule 2 in the Principal Regulations.