Statutory Rules

1975 No. 27

REGULATIONS UNDER THE HEALTH INSURANCE COMMISSION ACT 1973.*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of Australia, acting with the advice of the Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Health Insurance Commission Act 1973.

Dated this nineteenth day of February, 1975.

John R. Kerr

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Minister of State for Social Security.

Health Insurance Commission Regulations

Citation.

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Health Insurance Commission Regulations.

Commencement.

2. These Regulations shall be deemed to have come into operation on 19 September 1974.

Salary of part-time Commissioner.

3. In respect of any period of office before 1 January 1975, salary is payable to a part-time Commissioner—

(a) in the case of the Chairman—at the rate of $5,150 per year;

(b) in the case of the Deputy Chairman—at the rate of $3,200 per year; and

(c) in the case of any other part-time Commissioner—at the rate of $ 1,950 per year.

Salary of General Manager.

4. In respect of any period of office before 1 January 1975, salary is payable to the General Manager at the rate of $18,995 per year.

Travelling allowance payable to part-time Commissioners and General Manager.

5. (1) Where a part-time Commissioner or the General Manager is, in the course of performing his duties, necessarily absent overnight from the city in which he normally resides, travelling allowance in respect of the period of absence is payable to him at the rate of $28 per day.

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

* Notified in the Australian Government Gazette on 25 February 1975.

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