Statutory Rules

1973 No. 277

REGULATIONS UNDER THE HIGH COMMISSIONER (UNITED KINGDOM) ACT 1909-1966.*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL, of Australia, acting with advice of the Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the High Commissioner (United Kingdom) Act 1909-1966.

Dated this eighteenth day of December, 1973.

PAUL HASLUCK

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

D. R. WILLESEE

Minister of State for Foreign Affairs.

Amendment of the High Commissioner (Staff) Regulations†

Deputy High Commissioners.

1. Regulation 4a of the High Commissioner (Staff) Regulations is amended by omitting sub-regulation (4) and substituting the following sub-regulation:—

“ (4) A Deputy High Commissioner to whom this sub-regulation applies shall be paid an annual salary equal to the amount of salary which is from time to time payable per annum to an officer within the meaning of the Public Service Act 1922-1973 who occupies an office in the Second Division that is classified at Level 4.”.

Authority for payment of allowances.

2. A person who, in the period that commenced on 1 May 1973 and ended on the day immediately before the commencement of these Regulations, was a Deputy High Commissioner to whom sub-regulation 4a (4) applied during the whole or part of that period is entitled to be paid an allowance of such an amount as would result in the total remuneration of the Deputy Commissioner for the whole or part of that period being not less than the total remuneration that would have been payable to the Deputy Commissioner if the amendment made by regulation 1 had taken effect on 1 May 1973.

* Notified in the Australian Government Gazette on 19 December 1973.

† Statutory Rules 1960, No. 87, as amended by Statutory Rules 1965, No. 87; 1966, No. 76; 1967, Nos. 29 and 79; 1968, Nos. 21, 103, 128 and 164; 1969, Nos. 74, 150 and 192; 1970, Nos. 91, 146, 215 and 216; 1971, Nos. 81, 110 and 151; 1972, Nos. 22, 68 and 77; and 1973, Nos. 71, 177 and 244.