EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
STATUTORY RULES NO. 212 OF 1982
Issued by the Authority of the Minister for Trade and Resources.
TRADE COMMISSIONERS REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT)
Regulation 14 - Recreation Leave.
Regulation 14B - Granting of leave subject to deduction from future recreation leave credits.
Regulation 42 - Assistance with fares during recreation leave.
Section 12 of the Trade Commissioners Act 1933 (the Act) provides that the Governor-General may make regulations, not inconsistent with the Act, prescribing all matters which by the Act are required or permitted to be prescribed, or which are necessary or convenient to be prescribed, for giving effect to the Act.
Sub-Section 4(2) of the Act provides that a Trade Commissioner or an Assistant Trade Commissioner who was not, immediately prior to his appointment, an officer of the Public Service of the Commonwealth shall be paid such salary, allowances and expenses as are prescribed or as the Governor-General in any particular case determines. Sub-Section 6(3) of the Act provides that an officer of the Public Service of the Commonwealth, who is appointed a Trade Commissioner, shall be paid salary at the same rate as he was being paid immediately prior to his appointment, together with such additional remuneration and allowances as are prescribed or as the Governor-General in any particular case determines.
The Prime Minister has directed that the Public Service Board will be the general co-ordinating authority for conditions of service for the Trade Commissioner staff.
The Public Service Board has no objection to the proposal to give Trade Commissioners and Assistant Trade Commissioners, by way of regulation, the same conditions as public servants in respect of:
- recreation leave and additional recreation leave;
- granting of leave subject to deduction from future recreation leave credits; and
- assistance with fares during recreation leave while serving at an overseas post.
The Attorney-General’s Department has prepared draft Statutory Rules repealing Regulation 14 and substituting a new Regulation and providing two new Regulations as follows:
• Regulation 14 - Recreation Leave.
• Regulation 14B- Granting of leave subject to deduction from future recreation leave credits.
• Regulation 42 - Assistance with fares during recreation leave.
Each new Regulation gives Trade Commissioners and Assistant Trade Commissioners the same conditions as prescribed for officers of the Australian Public Service.