Statutory Rules
1975 No. 12
REGULATIONS UNDER THE CITIES COMMISSION ACT 1972-1973.*
I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of Australia, acting with the advice of the Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Cities Commission Act 1972-1973.
Dated this twenty-third day of January, 1975.
JOHN R. KERR
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
TOM UREN
Minister of State for Urban and Regional Development.
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Amendments of the Cities Commission Regulations †
Living allowance of Chairman.
1. Regulation 5 of the Cities Commission Regulations is amended by omitting from paragraph (b) the word and figures “ 31st July, 1974 ” and substituting the word and figures “ 30 September 1974 ”.
2. After regulation 5 of the Cities Commission Regulations, the following regulations are added:—
Definition.
“ 6. In regulations 7 and 8, ‘the Committee’ means the Cities Commission Advisory Committee constituted under section 14 of the Cities Commission Act 1972-1973.
Fees payable to members of Committee.
“ 7. The fee payable to a member of the Committee, other than a member who is a Commissioner, in respect of a day on which he attends a meeting of the Committee, is—
(a) if the duration of the meeting is less than 3 hours—$20; or
(b) in any other case—$35.
Travelling allowance of members of Committee.
“ 8. (1) Subject to sub-regulation (2), where a member of the Committee, other than a member who is a Commissioner, is necessarily absent overnight from the city in which he ordinarily resides in the course of performing his duties, travelling allowance is payable to him at the rate of $28 per day.
* Notified in the Australian Government Gazette on 4 February 1975.
† Statutory Rules 1973, No. 142, as amended by Statutory Rules 1973, No. 225.
“ (2) The member of the Committee who is, at the date of commencement of this regulation, the Chairman of the Australian Universities Commission shall be paid, in respect of any period during which he is necessarily absent overnight from the city in which he normally resides in the course of performing his duties (being a period that ends before 15 June 1974), in lieu of the travelling allowance payable under sub-regulation (1), travelling allowance at the rate at which travelling allowance would be payable to him if he were the Secretary to the Department of Urban and Regional Development.
“ (3) Travelling allowance payable under this regulation is in addition to, and does not include, the cost of conveyance.”.
Commencement.
3. (1) The amendment effected by regulation 1 shall be deemed to have come into operation on 1 August 1974.
(2) Regulation 2 shall be deemed to have come into operation on 7 June 1973.