SEX DISCRIMINATION REGULATIONS 1984 

- made under the Sex Discrimination Act 1984

- TABLE OF PROVISIONS

1.  Name of Regulations [see Note 1]    
2.  Interpretation    
3.  Combat duties    
4.  Fees etc in respect of attendance before the Commission    
SCHEDULE    Scale of fees and allowances for expenses 

SEX DISCRIMINATION REGULATIONS 1984 
- REG 1     Name of Regulations [see Note 1] 

 
        These Regulations are the Sex Discrimination Regulations 1984.

SEX DISCRIMINATION REGULATIONS 1984 
- REG 2     Interpretation 

 
        In these Regulations, the Act means the Sex
Discrimination Act 1984.

SEX DISCRIMINATION REGULATIONS 1984 
- REG 3     Combat duties 

 
    (1)  The following duties (in this regulation referred to as
combat duties) are declared to be combat duties for the purposes
of section 43 of the Act, namely, duties requiring a person to commit, or to
participate directly in the commission of, an act of violence against an
adversary in time of war.

    (3)  In this regulation, time of war has the same
meaning as in the Defence Act 1903.

SEX DISCRIMINATION REGULATIONS 1984 
- REG 4     Fees etc in respect of attendance before the Commission 

 
    (1)  The fees and allowances for expenses that a person is, under
subsection 75A (1) of the Act, entitled to be paid in respect of an attendance
before the Commission are such fees and allowances for expenses as are fixed by
the Commission, or by the member of the Commission presiding at the inquiry in
respect of which the person is attending before the Commission, in accordance
with the scale set out in the Schedule.

    (2)  In the scale in the Schedule, a reference to the Federal Court
Rules is a reference to the Federal Court Rules as in force from time to time.

SEX DISCRIMINATION REGULATIONS 1984 - SCHEDULE    Scale of fees and allowances for expenses

(regulation 4)
  
    1.    Person attending before the Commission to give evidence because of his
or her professional, scientific or other special skill or knowledge -- in

respect of each day on which the person so attends, an amount of not less than
the lesser amount specified in the Federal Court Rules in relation to expenses
of witnesses possessing such skill or knowledge and not more than the greater
amount so specified.
    2.    Person, other than a person referred to in Item 1, attending before the
Commission:

        (a)  in the case of a person remunerated by wages, salary or fees -- such
amount as is provided for in the Federal Court Rules in relation to expenses of
witnesses so remunerated;
        (b)  in the case of any other person -- an amount of not less than the
lesser amount specified in the Federal Court Rules in relation to such persons
and not more than the greater amount so specified.

    3.    Any person attending before the Commission, being a person who resides
more than 50 kilometres from the place where that attendance is
required -- such amount as is reasonable:

        (a)  in respect of the person's conveyance to and from the place at which the
person so attends; and
        (b)  if the person is required to be absent overnight from the person's usual
place of residence -- for meals and accommodation.

    4.    Person attending before the Commission in respect of more than one
inquiry -- in respect of each inquiry, a proportionate part only of the
fees and allowances that, but for this item, the person would be entitled to
receive.

SEX DISCRIMINATION REGULATIONS 1984

- NOTES

Compilation Information

[GRAPHIC]Sex Discrimination Regulations 1984
Statutory Rules 
1984
No. 
181
as amended
This compilation was prepared on 6 June 2001taking into account amendments
up to SR 2001 No. 118
Prepared by the Office of Legislative Drafting,Attorney-General's
Department, Canberra

  
  

SEX DISCRIMINATION REGULATIONS 1984

- NOTES

SEX DISCRIMINATION REGULATIONS 1984Notes to the Sex Discrimination Regulations 1984

Note 1
The Sex Discrimination Regulations 1984 (in force under the Sex
Discrimination Act 1984) as shown in this compilation comprise Statutory
Rules 1984 No. 181 amended as indicated in the Tables below. 
Table of Statutory Rules

Year
and number

Date
of notification in Gazette

Date
ofcommencement

Application,
saving ortransitional provisions

1984
No. 181

3
Aug 1984

3
Aug 1984

1987
No. 56

1
May 1987

1
May 1987

--

2001
No. 118

6
June 2001

6
June 2001

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Table
of Amendments

ad.
= added or inserted      am. = amended      rep. = repealed      rs. = repealed
and substituted

Provision
affected

How
affected

R.
1	

rs.
2001 No. 118

Heading
to r. 3    

rs.
2001 No. 118

R.
3	

am.
2001 No. 118

R.
4	

ad.
1987 No. 56

Schedule
	

ad.
1987 No. 56