Statutory Rules

1979 No. 168

REGULATIONS UNDER THE LAW REFORM COMMISSION ACT 19731

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Law Reform Commission Act 1973.

Dated this fifteenth day of August 1979.

ZELMAN COWEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

P. DURACK

Attorney-General

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LAW REFORM COMMISSION (ALLOWANCES) REGULATIONS

Citation

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Law Reform Commission (Allowances) Regulations.

Allowances payable to relevant member

2. (1) Subject to any determination made under the Remuneration Tribunals Act 1973, where it is necessary for a relevant member to take up residence at the place at which he is required to take up the performance of the duties of his office, there shall be payable to that relevant member the allowances that would be payable to him under regulations 93 and 97 of the Public Service Regulations as amended and in force from time to time if his appointment to be a member were an appointment to be an officer of the Australian Public Service.

(2) In sub-regulation (1), “relevant member” means a person who—

(a) is appointed to be a full-time member; and

(b) is required to take up the performance of the duties of his office at a place other than the place at which he was residing at the time of his appointment.

Allowances payable to full-time member

3. Subject to any determination made under the Remuneration Tribunals Act 1973, a full-time member is entitled to be paid such allowances as would be payable to him under regulations 90a, 90aA, 90b and 90c of the Public Service Regulations as amended and in force from time to time if he were an officer of the Australian Public Service.

Performance of functions in relation to allowances

4. For the purposes of these Regulations, any function that is required to be performed by the Public Service Board or a Chief Officer of a Department in relation to the payment to an officer of the Australian Public Service of an allowance referred to in regulation 3 or 4 of these Regulations shall, in relation to the payment of an allowance under these Regulations, be performed by the Minister.

NOTE

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 21 August 1979.