STATUTORY RULES

1970 No. 82

REGULATIONS UNDER THE PARLIAMENTARY COUNSEL ACT 1970.*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Parliamentary Counsel Act 1970.

Dated this twenty-ninth day of June, 1970.

Paul Hasluck

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

T. E. F. HUGHES

Attorney-General.

PARLIAMENTARY COUNSEL REGULATIONS

Citation.

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Parliamentary Counsel Regulations.

Definitions.

2. In these Regulations—

“Parliamentary Counsel” means the First Parliamentary Counsel or a Second Parliamentary Counsel;

“the Act” means the Parliamentary Counsel Act 1970.

Salary of First Parliamentary Counsel and Second Parliamentary Counsel.

3. In respect of any period of office before the first day of January, 1971—

(a) there is payable to the First Parliamentary Counsel salary at the rate of Twenty-two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars per year and an annual allowance at the rate of One thousand five hundred dollars per year; and

(b) there is payable to a Second Parliamentary Counsel salary at the rate of Eighteen thousand five hundred dollars per year.

Travelling allowance.

4.—(1.) Subject to regulation 6 of these Regulations, where a Parliamentary Counsel is necessarily absent from Canberra overnight in the course of performing his duties, travelling allowance is payable to him in accordance with this regulation.

(2.) Subject to the next succeeding sub-regulation, travelling allowance in respect of the period of absence is payable to the First Parliamentary Counsel at the rate of Twenty-eight dollars per day and to a Second Parliamentary Counsel at the rate of Twenty-one dollars per day.

(3.) Travelling allowance payable under this regulation is in addition to, and does not include, the cost of conveyance.

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 29th June, 1970.

17228/70—Price 5c 10/17.6.70

Other allowances payable while serving in Australia.

5. Subject to the next succeeding regulation, a Parliamentary Counsel is entitled to be paid such allowances, other than travelling allowance, as would be payable to him under the Public Service Regulations, as in force from time to time, if he were an officer of the Public Service of the Commonwealth and were included—

(a) in the case of the First Parliamentary Counsel—in the First Division; or

(b) in the case of o Second Parliamentary Counsel—in the Second Division.

Allowances in respect of services outside Australia.

6.—(1.) Where a Parliamentary Counsel performs duties outside Australia and the Territories of the Commonwealth, he is entitled to be paid such allowances as he would be entitled to be paid—

(a) in the case of the First Parliamentary Counsel—if he were the Permanent Head of a Department and in receipt of salary equal to the salary payable to the Secretary to the Attorney-General’s Department; or

(b) in the case of a Second Parliamentary Counsel—if he were an officer of the Public Service of the Commonwealth and were included in the Second Division.

(2.) A Parliamentary Counsel who is entitled to be paid travelling allowance in respect of a period under sub-regulation (1.) of this regulation is not entitled to be paid travelling allowance in respect of that period under regulation 4 of these Regulations.

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