INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS (ALLOWANCES) REGULATIONS 1996 NO. 33 

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS (ALLOWANCES) REGULATIONS 1996 NO. 33 
- TABLE OF PROVISIONS

1. Citation  
2. Commencement  
3. Interpretation  
4. Prescribed allowances-members of the Commission  
5. Travelling allowance-overnight stay  
6. Travelling allowance-spouses  
7. Travelling allowance-day trip  


1996 No. 33 INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS (ALLOWANCES) REGULATIONS
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Citation


  1. These Regulations may be cited as the Industrial Relations (Allowances)
Regulations.


1996 No. 33 INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS (ALLOWANCES) REGULATIONS
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Commencement


  2. These Regulations are taken to have commenced on 1 February 1996.


1996 No. 33 INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS (ALLOWANCES) REGULATIONS
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Interpretation


  3. In these Regulations, unless the contrary intention appears:
  "Act" means the Industrial Relations Act 1988.


1996 No. 33 INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS (ALLOWANCES) REGULATIONS
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Prescribed allowances-members of the Commission


  4. For the purposes of paragraphs 21 (1) (b), 21 (2) (b), 21 (2A) (b), 21
(2B) (b) and 23 (1) (b) of the Act, the allowances specified in these
Regulations are prescribed in relation to Presidential Members and
Commissioners.


1996 No. 33 INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS (ALLOWANCES) REGULATIONS
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Travelling allowance-overnight stay


  5. (1) If a member of the Commission is necessarily absent overnight from
the member's ordinary place of residence in the course of the performance of
the member's duties, then, subject to subregulations (2) and (3), a travelling
allowance is payable to the member in respect of each overnight stay at the
following rates:
  (a) in the case of a Presidential Member:
    (i) for each overnight stay in a capital city-$320; and
    (ii)  for each overnight stay in any other place-$165; and
  (b) in the case of a Commissioner:
    (i) for each overnight stay in Sydney-$245; and
    (ii) for each overnight stay in a capital city other than
Sydney-$200; and
    (iii) for each overnight stay in any other place-$155.

  (2) If the cost of accommodation or meals is met directly by the
Commonwealth, travelling allowance is payable to a member for each overnight
stay, as follows:
  (a) if the cost of accommodation only is met-$80; and
  (b) if the cost of accommodation and 1 meal each day are met-$65; and
  (c) if the cost of accommodation and each meal each day is met-$50.

  (3) If a single period of absence by a member includes 1 or more periods of
24 hours and a further period of not less than 10 hours, a further amount of
$50 is payable to the member in respect of that period of absence.


1996 No. 33 INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS (ALLOWANCES) REGULATIONS
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Travelling allowance-spouses


  6. If the spouse of a member of the Commission accompanies the member on an
overnight stay, there is payable to the member in respect of each overnight
stay, an additional allowance equal to:
  (a) the vouched additional costs of hiring a double room instead of a single
room; or
  (b) if those costs are not vouched, the amount of $10.


1996 No. 33 INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS (ALLOWANCES) REGULATIONS
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Travelling allowance-day trip


  7. If a member of the Commission is necessarily absent from the member's
ordinary place of duty in the course of the member's duties for a period of at
least 10 hours that does not include an overnight stay, a travelling allowance
of $50 is payable to the member in respect of that period of absence.


- NOTES


1996 No. 33*1* INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS (ALLOWANCES) REGULATIONS

- Dated 21 March 1996


*1* Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 28 March 1996.