Statutory Rules 1996   No. 3521

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Judicial and Statutory Officers (Remuneration and Allowances) Regulations2 (Amendment)

I, The Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Regulations under the Judicial and Statutory Officers (Remuneration and Allowances) Act 1984.

Dated 20 December 1996.

 WILLIAM DEANE

 Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

peter reith

Minister for Industrial Relations

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1.   Amendment

1.1   The Judicial and Statutory Officers (Remuneration and Allowances) Regulations are amended as set out in these Regulations.

[NOTE: These Regulations commence on gazettal: see Acts Interpretation Act 1901, s. 48.]

2.   New regulation 4

2.1   After regulation 3, insert:

Remuneration of officer appointed Privacy Commissioner

 “4. If a person appointed to hold the office of Privacy Commissioner was, immediately before the appointment, a Second Commissioner of Taxation, the person is to be paid, during the period of the appointment (including any period of re-appointment) to that office, instead of the remuneration otherwise payable in respect of that office, remuneration at the rate of $152,490 a year.”.

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NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 24 December 1996.

2. Statutory Rules 1986 No. 106 as amended by 1988 No. 43; 1990 Nos. 229 and 472; 1992 No. 243; 1995 No. 254; 1996 Nos. 14 and 109.