Statutory Rules

1973 No. 71

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

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 High Commissioner (United Kingdom) Act 1909-1966.

Dated this second day of April, 1973.

PAUL HASLUCK.

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

D. R. WILLESEE

Special Minister of State

Minister Assisting the 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 from sub-regulation (4) the words “ Nineteen thousand five hundred dollars per year  ” and substituting the words “Eighteen thousand nine hundred and ninety-five dollars per year ”.

Allowance of Deputy High Commissioner.

2. Where, on or after the date of commencement of this regulation—

(a) the Governor-General determines in pursuance of sub-regulation 4a (3) of the High Commissioner (Staff) Regulations that sub-regulation 4a (4) shall apply to a specified Deputy High Commissioner;

(b) the person to whom the determination relates was a Deputy High Commissioner on the twenty-ninth day of March, 1973, and was on that date in receipt of salary at a rate per year less than the rate of Eighteen thousand nine hundred and ninety-five dollars per year,

the Deputy High Commissioner shall, in respect of the period that commenced on that date and ends on the date on which the Governor-General makes the determination, be paid an allowance at a rate per year equal to the difference between the salary at the rate per year payable to the Deputy High Commissioner on that first-mentioned date and salary at the rate of Eighteen thousand nine hundred and ninety-five dollars per year.

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 3 April 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, 108, 128 and 164; 1969, Nos. 74, 150 and 192; 1970, Nos. 91, 146, 215 and 216; 1971, Nos. 81, 110 and 151; and 1972, Nos. 22, 68 and 77.