EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
STATUTORY RULES 1985 No. 240
MINUTE NO. 90 OF 1985 - MINISTER FOR TRADE
SUBJECT: TRADE COMMISSIONERS ACT 1933 TRADE COMMISSIONERS REGULATIONS (REPEAL)
1. Section 12 of 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 the giving effect to the Act.
2. The Trade Commissioners Regulations provide for the terms and conditions of employment for Trade Commissioners and for employees under the Act.
3. Schedule 1 of the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (No. 1) 1985 (Act No. 65 assented to 5 June 1985) provided inter alia for the amendment of the Act to enable the issue by the Minister of determinations covering the matters contained in the regulations. Such determinations have been made by the Minister in reliance on section 4 of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901. In consequence of this, it has been recommended by Executive Council Minute No. 89/1985 that the amendments to the Act should come into operation on 1 October 1985.
4. As a result it is proposed that the existing regulations be repealed on that date.