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Statutory Rules

1974 No. 209

REGULATION UNDER THE TRADE COMMISSIONERS ACT 1933-1973.*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of Australia, acting with the advice of the Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulation under the Trade Commissioners Act 1933-1973.

Dated this twenty-eighth day of October, 1974.

JOHN R. KERR

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

J. F. CAIRNS

Minister of State for Overseas Trade.

Amendment of the Trade Commissioners Regulations†

After regulation 5 of the Trade Commissioners Regulations the following regulation is inserted:—

Salaries.

“ 5a. (1) The salary, or the range of salary, payable, on and after 30 May 1974, to a Commissioner to whom section 4 of the Act applies shall be that ascertained in accordance with the following table:—

Designation

Annual salary or range of annual salary on and after 30 May 1974 to and including 26 June 1974

Annual salary or range of annual salary on and after 27 June 1974

 

$

$

Trade Commissioner (Special Grade) ......

21,417

21,417

Trade Commissioner, Grade A ..........

19,597

19,597

Trade Commissioner, Grade B........................... 

17,776

17,776

Trade Commissioner, Grade C ..........

14,401-14,904

15,236-15,739

Assistant Trade Commissioner, Grade 1 ....

12,389-12,890

13,224-13,725

Assistant Trade Commissioner, Grade 2 ....

9,194-9,532-9,869

10,029-10,367-10,704

Assistant Trade Commissioner, Grade 3 ....

8,187-8,438-8,690-8,942

9,022-9,273-9,525-9,777

“ (2) Subject to sub-regulation (3), a Commissioner who is being paid salary within a range of salary set out in the table in sub-regulation (1) shall be paid the increments of salary within that range.

* Notified in the Australian Government Gazette on 29 October 1974.

† Statutory Rules 1958, No. 52, as amended by Statutory Rules 1958, No. 74; 1959, No. 92; 1960, No. 45; 1961, Nos. 37 and 38; 1962, Nos. 43 and 80; 1964, No. 116; 1966, No. 19; 1967, No. 55; 1969, No 89; 1971, No. 36; 1973, Nos. 52, 85 and 136; and 1974, Nos. 118, 132, 133, 163 and 194.


“ (3) A Commissioner is not entitled to receive an increment of salary in accordance with sub-regulation (2) unless he has received salary without that increment for not less than 12 months.

“ (4) The additional remuneration to be paid to a Commissioner to whom section 6 of the Act applies is an amount per year equal to the amount by which the salary that would have been payable to him in the year if he had been a Commissioner to whom section 4 of the Act applies exceeds the amount of his annual salary that he was being paid immediately before his appointment as a Trade Commissioner or as an Assistant Trade Commissioner, as the case may be.”.