EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
Statutory Rules 1983 No 72
Salaries and Wages Pause (Exemptions) Regulations (Amendment)
(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 section 7, 8 or 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 6 relates to two claims lodged with the Public Service Arbitrator in connection with the National Wage Case. The regulation restores power to the Public Service Arbitrator (and the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission if the matter is referred to it) in relation to the variation of determinations so as to increase the rates, or minimum rates of remuneration payable to certain Commonwealth employees.