EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
Statutory Rules 1983 No 101
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.
Paragraph (c) of regulation 6 restores power to the Public Service Arbitrator and the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission to deal with a claim by the Australian Public Service Association (Fourth Division Officers) on behalf of its members employed in the Northern Territory Public Service for salary increases in respect of certain designations in the Northern Territory Public Service which have not participated fully in the 1982 community wage round.