Statutory Rules 1982 No. 2121

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Trade Commissioners Regulations2 (Amendment)

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 Trade Commissioners Act 1933.

Dated 26 August 1982.

N. M. STEPHEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency's Command,

J. D. ANTHONY

Minister of State for Trade and Resources

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1. Regulation 14 of the Trade Commissioners Regulations is repealed and the following regulation substituted:

Recreation leave

"14. (1) A Commissioner shall have the same entitlement to recreation leave or additional recreation leave as he would have if he were an officer of the Australian Public Service.

"(2) A function that may be performed by a Chief Officer of a Department or the Public Service Board in relation to recreation leave or additional recreation leave to which an officer of the Australian Public Service referred to in sub-regulation (1) is entitled may be performed by the Minister in relation to recreation leave or additional recreation leave to which a Commissioner is entitled under sub-regulation (1).

"(3) For the purposes of this regulation, a person who has held office as a Commissioner for 2 or more continuous periods shall be taken—

(a) to have commenced duties when he was appointed a Commissioner for the first of those continuous periods; and

(b) unless he ceases to be a Commissioner before the expiration of a period of office for which he was appointed, to have ceased to be a Commissioner when the last of those continuous periods of office has expired.".

2. After regulation 14a of the Trade Commissioners Regulations the following regulation is inserted:

Granting of leave subject to deduction from future recreation leave credits

"14B. (1) A Commissioner may be granted such leave of absence as could be granted to him, on the condition that a recreation leave credit that would otherwise subsequently accrue to him shall be reduced by the period of the leave of absence so granted, if he were an officer of the Australian Public Service.

"(2) A function that may be performed by a Chief Officer of a Department or the Public Service Board in relation to leave of absence granted to an officer of the Australian Public Service referred to in sub-regulation (1) may be performed by the Minister in relation to leave of absence granted under that sub-regulation.".

3. After regulation 41 of the Trade Commissioners Regulations the following regulation is inserted:

Assistance with fares during recreation leave

"42. (1) A Commissioner stationed at a post shall be entitled to be paid by way of allowance such amounts as he would be entitled to be paid in respect of the cost of travel by himself and his family to Australia, or another place, and return to the post during a period of recreation leave if he were an officer of the Australian Public Service.

"(2) An entitlement of a Commissioner under sub-regulation (1) shall be subject to the same conditions that would be applicable to the corresponding entitlement of an officer of the Australian Public Service.

"(3) A function that may be performed by a Chief Officer of a Department or the head of a mission in relation to the entitlement of an officer of the Australian Public Service referred to in sub-regulation (1) may be performed by the Minister in relation to an entitlement given by that sub-regulation.".

Transitional

4. Where before the commencement of these Regulations a Commissioner may have, or had, been granted recreation leave for a period commencing on or after, or extending after, that commencement, that recreation leave shall be deemed to be recreation leave or additional recreation leave to which a Commissioner is entitled under sub-regulation 14 (1) of the Trade Commissioners Regulations, as amended by these Regulations.

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 3 September 1982.

2. Statutory Rules 1958 No. 52 as amended to date. For previous amendments see Note 2 to Statutory Rules 1982 No. 66 and see also Statutory Rules 1982 Nos. 66 and 107.