COMMONWEALTH ELECTORAL OFFICERS (ALLOWANCES) REGULATIONS 2000 

- made under the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918

- TABLE OF PROVISIONS

PART 1--PRELIMINARY 
1.1. Name of Regulations [see Note 1]   
1.2. Commencement   
1.3. Electoral Officers (Remuneration and Allowances) Regulations -- repeal   
1.4. Definitions   

PART 2--ELECTORAL COMMISSIONER PRESCRIBED ALLOWANCES 
2.1. Application and purpose of Part 2   
2.2. Relocation allowances   
2.3. Motor vehicle allowance   
2.4. Dependant care   
2.5. Telephone   
2.6. Study assistance   

PART 3--DEPUTY ELECTORAL COMMISSIONER PRESCRIBED ALLOWANCES 
3.1. Application and purpose of Part 3   
3.2. Relocation allowances   
3.3. Family care   
3.4. Certain travel costs of family member   

PART 4--AUSTRALIAN ELECTORAL OFFICERS FOR THE NORTHERN TERRITORY AND 
4.1. Application and purpose of Part 4   
4.2. Certain allowances in AEC Agreement   
4.3. Additional relocation allowances   

PART 5--AUSTRALIAN ELECTORAL OFFICER FOR SOUTH AUSTRALIA 
5.1. Application and purpose   
5.2. Relocation allowances    
5.3. Family care   
5.4. Certain travel costs of family member   

COMMONWEALTH ELECTORAL OFFICERS (ALLOWANCES) REGULATIONS 2000
- REG 1.1    Name of Regulations [see Note 1]

 
        These Regulations are the Commonwealth Electoral Officers
(Allowances)  Regulations 2000.

COMMONWEALTH ELECTORAL OFFICERS (ALLOWANCES) REGULATIONS 2000
- REG 1.2    Commencement

 
        These Regulations commence on gazettal. 

COMMONWEALTH ELECTORAL OFFICERS (ALLOWANCES) REGULATIONS 2000
- REG 1.3    Electoral Officers (Remuneration and Allowances) Regulations -- repeal

        Statutory Rules 1984 No. 16 is repealed.

COMMONWEALTH ELECTORAL OFFICERS (ALLOWANCES) REGULATIONS 2000
- REG 1.4    Definitions

 
        In these Regulations:

"Act" means the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918.
"AEC" means the Australian Electoral Commission established by
section 6 of the Act.
"AEC Agreement "means the AEC Agreement 1998-2000 certified under
Division 4 of Part VIB of the Workplace Relations Act 1996 on 12
November 1998.
"Commissioner" means the Electoral Commissioner.
"temporary accommodation allowance" means the same temporary
accommodation allowance as is payable to an Executive Level employee of the
Australian Electoral Commission.

  

COMMONWEALTH ELECTORAL OFFICERS (ALLOWANCES) REGULATIONS 2000
- REG 2.1    Application and purpose of Part 2

 
        For the purposes of subsection 22 (2) of the Act, the
allowances set out in this Part are prescribed for the Electoral Commissioner.

COMMONWEALTH ELECTORAL OFFICERS (ALLOWANCES) REGULATIONS 2000
- REG 2.2    Relocation allowances

 
    (1)  If the Commissioner is required to move from his or her home
location to a new location to take up the appointment as Commissioner, the
Commissioner is entitled to the relocation allowances set out in this
regulation.

    (2)  The Commissioner is entitled to reimbursement of:

        (a)  reasonable transport and removal costs associated with moving the
Commissioner and his or her family and household goods to the new location;
and
        (b)  either:

        (i)  reasonable transport and removal costs associated with returning the
Commissioner and his or her family and household goods to the home location at
the end of the appointment period; or
        (ii)  if the Commissioner is moving to another location at the end of the
appointment period, reasonable transport and removal costs associated with
moving the Commissioner and his or her family and household goods to the other
location (not exceeding the amount to which the Commissioner would be entitled
if he or she were returning to the home location).

    (3)  The Commissioner is entitled to reimbursement of reasonable costs
associated with 1 pre-transfer visit by the Commissioner to look for suitable
long-term accommodation at the new location.
    (4)  The Commissioner is entitled to reimbursement of reasonable temporary
accommodation costs at the new location.
    (5)  The Commissioner is entitled to reimbursement of reasonable costs
associated with the sale and purchase of a home at both the commencement and
the completion of the appointment period.
    (6)  If the period of appointment is 12 months or more, and the Commissioner's
household goods are moved to the new location, the Commissioner is entitled to
a disturbance allowance of $1,800.
    (7)  The Commissioner is entitled to reimbursement, up to $140.00, of the cost
of moving pets to the new location.
    (8)  If the Commissioner had a telephone connected in his or her name at the
home location, the Commissioner is entitled to reimbursement of the cost of
connecting 1 telephone in his or her name at the new location.
    (9)  If a motor vehicle or motor cycle owned by the Commissioner is moved to
the new location, the Commissioner is entitled to reimbursement of:

        (a)  the costs, for 1 motor vehicle or motor cycle only, incurred by the
Commissioner for:

        (i)  stamp duty on registering the motor vehicle or motor cycle in the new
location; and
        (ii)  the establishment fee for the transfer of the registration of the motor
vehicle or motor cycle; and

        (b)  the establishment fee for the transfer of the Commissioner's driving
licence.

    (10)  The Commissioner is entitled to reimbursement of reasonable
costs incurred in avoiding serious disruption to the final 2 years of secondary
education of the Commissioner's dependent children.
    (11)  If the Commissioner has any dependants who do not move with the
Commissioner to the new location, the Commissioner may choose 1 of the
following entitlements:

        (a)  12 economy class return airfares a year for the purposes of reunion
travel;
        (b)  travel to the value of $6,600 a year for the purposes of reunion travel.

    (12)  An entitlement under subregulation (11) is for 3 years from the
commencement of the appointment or for the period served by the Commissioner,
whichever is less.
    (13)  In subregulation (11):

reunion travel means:
        (a)  travel by the Commissioner to visit any of his or her dependants not
living at the new location; or
        (b)  travel by any of the dependants to visit the Commissioner.

COMMONWEALTH ELECTORAL OFFICERS (ALLOWANCES) REGULATIONS 2000
- REG 2.3    Motor vehicle allowance

 
        The Commissioner is entitled to the same motor vehicle allowance as
applies to an employee of the Australian Electoral Commission under clause 35.6
of the AEC Agreement.

COMMONWEALTH ELECTORAL OFFICERS (ALLOWANCES) REGULATIONS 2000
- REG 2.4    Dependant care

 
    (1)  The Commissioner is entitled to reimbursement of reasonable costs
associated with dependant care while the Commissioner is required to travel on
official business.

    (2)  The entitlement is in accordance with the guidelines issued by
the AEC in March 2000.

COMMONWEALTH ELECTORAL OFFICERS (ALLOWANCES) REGULATIONS 2000
- REG 2.5    Telephone

 
    (1)  The Commissioner is entitled to reimbursement of the cost of
work-related telephone calls made from the Commissioner's private fixed-line
telephone service.

    (2)  The Commissioner must present an itemised account to verify a
claim for reimbursement under subregulation (1).

COMMONWEALTH ELECTORAL OFFICERS (ALLOWANCES) REGULATIONS 2000
- REG 2.6    Study assistance

 
        The Commissioner is entitled to study assistance in accordance with
the Studybank guidelines issued by the AEC in July 1997.

COMMONWEALTH ELECTORAL OFFICERS (ALLOWANCES) REGULATIONS 2000
- REG 3.1    Application and purpose of Part 3

 
    (1)  For the purposes of subsection 22 (2) of the Act, the
allowances set out in this Part are prescribed for a person (the
appointee) appointed as the Deputy Electoral Commissioner. 

    (2)    In this Part:
"family member", in relation to an appointee, means:

        (a)  a child or adopted child of the appointee; or
        (b)  a child or adopted child of a person who is in a bona fide domestic
relationship with the appointee; or

    (c)    a person (other than a child mentioned in paragraph (a) or (b)) who:

        (i)  is related by blood or marriage to the appointee; and
        (ii)  has a strong affinity with the appointee; and
        (iii)  is in a bona fide domestic relationship with the appointee.

COMMONWEALTH ELECTORAL OFFICERS (ALLOWANCES) REGULATIONS 2000
- REG 3.2    Relocation allowances

 
    (1)  If the appointee is required to move from 1 location (the
previous location) to another (the appointment
location) in order to take up the appointment, the appointee is
entitled to the relocation allowances set out in this regulation.

    (2)    The appointee is entitled to:

        (a)  payment for or reimbursement of reasonable transport and household goods
removal costs at the start and the completion of the appointment period; and
        (b)  an allowance to subsidise reasonable temporary accommodation costs at the
appointment location; and
        (c)  if the period of appointment is 12 months or more, and results in the
removal of the appointee's household goods to the appointment location, a
one-off (taxable) disturbance allowance of $1 829; and
        (d)  reimbursement of reasonable costs incurred in avoiding serious disruption
to the final 2 years of secondary education of the appointee's children; and

    (e)    reimbursement of reasonable costs associated with the sale and purchase
of a home:

        (i)  within 12 months of the start of the appointment period; and
        (ii)  within 12 months of the completion of the appointment period; and

        (f)  if a telephone service was held in the appointee's name at the previous
location, reimbursement of the cost of reconnecting 1 telephone at the
appointment location; and
        (g)  reimbursement of fees for the transfer to the appointment location of the
registration of 1 motor vehicle or motorcycle of the appointee; and
        (h)  reimbursement, up to $139, of the cost of moving pets to the appointment
location; and
        (i)  if it can be shown that a pre-transfer visit will facilitate the
acquisition of accommodation suitable for the appointee's long-term needs at
the appointment location, reimbursement of the cost of 1 such visit.

    (3)    If the appointee chooses not to relocate dependants to the appointment
location, the appointee is entitled to:

        (a)  12 return economy airfares each year to the appointee's previous location
for the purposes of reunion travel; or
        (b)  air travel up to $6 600 a year for reunion travel.

    (4)  An entitlement under subregulation (3) is for 3 years from the
day when the appointee starts his or her duty.

    (5)    In this regulation reunion travel means:

        (a)  travel by the appointee to visit a family member not living at the
appointment location; or
        (b)  travel by a family member to visit the appointee;

that is approved by the Commissioner.

COMMONWEALTH ELECTORAL OFFICERS (ALLOWANCES) REGULATIONS 2000
- REG 3.3    Family care

 
    (1)  The appointee is entitled to reimbursement of costs associated
with additional family care arrangements if the appointee is required by the
AEC to be away from home outside normal working hours.

    (2)  An entitlement under subregulation (1) must be in accordance with
AEC guidelines.

COMMONWEALTH ELECTORAL OFFICERS (ALLOWANCES) REGULATIONS 2000
- REG 3.4    Certain travel costs of family member

         The appointee is entitled to reimbursement of reasonable costs of a family
member if the following circumstances apply:

        (a)  the appointee becomes critically or dangerously ill while travelling on
official business and is unable to return to the appointment location;
        (b)  a family member travels to visit the appointee while the appointee is
critically or dangerously ill;
        (c)  a request for reimbursement of the travel costs of the family member is
made to the AEC;
        (d)  satisfactory medical evidence of the condition of the appointee is given
to the AEC.

Tasmania -- prescribed allowances

  

COMMONWEALTH ELECTORAL OFFICERS (ALLOWANCES) REGULATIONS 2000
- REG 4.1    Application and purpose of Part 4

 
        For the purposes of subsection 22 (2) of the Act, the
allowances set out in this Part are prescribed for a person (an
appointee) appointed as Australian Electoral Officer for the
Northern Territory or Tasmania.

COMMONWEALTH ELECTORAL OFFICERS (ALLOWANCES) REGULATIONS 2000
- REG 4.2    Certain allowances in AEC Agreement

 
        An appointee is entitled to the allowances applying to an Executive
Level employee of the Australian Electoral Commission under the following
provisions of the AEC Agreement:

        (a)  clause 18.4 (dependant care while travelling);
        (b)  clause 35.3 (higher duties allowance);
        (c)  clause 35.6 (motor vehicle allowance);
        (d)  clause 35.9 (reimbursement of fares);
        (e)  clause 35.11 (temporary relocation assistance);
        (f)  subclauses 35.12 (iii), (iv), (vi), (vii) and (viii) (relocation
assistance).

COMMONWEALTH ELECTORAL OFFICERS (ALLOWANCES) REGULATIONS 2000
- REG 4.3    Additional relocation allowances

 
    (1)  If an appointee is required to move from the appointee's home
location to a new location to take up an appointment as Australian Electoral
Officer for the Northern Territory or Tasmania, the appointee is entitled to
the additional relocation allowances set out in this regulation.

    (2)  The appointee is entitled to reimbursement of:

        (a)  reasonable transport and removal costs associated with moving the
appointee and his or her family and household goods to the new location; and
        (b)  either:

        (i)  reasonable transport and removal costs associated with returning the
appointee and his or her family and household goods to the home location at the
end of the appointment period; or
        (ii)  if the appointee is moving to another location at the end of the
appointment period, reasonable transport and removal costs associated with
moving the appointee and his or her family and household goods to the other
location (not exceeding the amount to which the appointee would be entitled if
he or she were returning to the home location).

    (3)  The appointee is entitled to reimbursement of reasonable costs
associated with:

        (a)  selling the appointee's home at the home location, and buying a home at
the new location, within 12 months after the commencement of the appointment
period; and
        (b)  selling the appointee's home at the new location, and buying a home at the
home location or at another location to which the appointee is moving, within
12 months after the end of the appointment period.

    (4)  The appointee is entitled to temporary accommodation allowance
for the lesser of:

        (a)  the period between the commencement of the appointment period and the
buying of a home at the new location; and
        (b)  3 years.

    (5)  If the appointee has any dependants who do not move with the
appointee to the new location, the appointee may choose 1 of the following
entitlements:

        (a)  6 economy class return airfares a year for the purposes of reunion
travel;
        (b)  travel to the value of $3,300 a year for the purposes of reunion travel.

    (6)  An entitlement under subregulation (5) is for 3 years from the
commencement of the appointment or for the period served by the appointee,
whichever is less.
    (7)  In subregulation (5):

reunion travel means:
        (a)  travel by the appointee to visit any of his or her dependants not living
at the new location; or
        (b)  travel by any of the dependants to visit the appointee;

that is approved by the Electoral Commissioner as reunion travel.

prescribed allowances

COMMONWEALTH ELECTORAL OFFICERS (ALLOWANCES) REGULATIONS 2000
- REG 5.1    Application and purpose

 
        For the purposes of subsection 22 (2) of the Act, the allowances set
out in this Part are prescribed for a person (the appointee)
appointed as the Australian Electoral Officer for South Australia. 

COMMONWEALTH ELECTORAL OFFICERS (ALLOWANCES) REGULATIONS 2000
- REG 5.2    Relocation allowances 

 
    (1)  If the appointee is required to move from 1 location (the
previous location) to another (the appointment
location) in order to take up the appointment, the appointee is
entitled to the relocation allowances set out in this regulation.

    (2)    The appointee is entitled to:

        (a)  payment or reimbursement of reasonable transport and household goods
removal costs at the start and completion of the appointment period; and
        (b)  an allowance to subsidise reasonable temporary accommodation costs at the
appointment location; and
        (c)  if the period of appointment is 12 months or more and results in the
removal of the appointee's household goods to the appointment location, a
one-off (taxable) disturbance allowance of $1 829; and
        (d)  reimbursement of reasonable costs incurred in avoiding serious disruption
to the final 2 years of secondary education of the appointee's children; and

    (e)    reimbursement of reasonable costs associated with the sale and purchase
of a home:

        (i)  within 12 months of the start of the appointment period; and
        (ii)  within 12 months of the completion of the appointment period; and

        (f)  if a telephone service was held in the appointee's name at the previous
location, reimbursement of the cost of reconnecting 1 telephone at the
appointment location; and
        (g)  reimbursement of fees for the transfer to the appointment location of the
registration of 1 motor vehicle or motor cycle of the appointee; and
        (h)  reimbursement, up to $139.00, of the cost of moving pets to the
appointment location; and
        (i)  if it can be shown that a pre-transfer visit will facilitate the
acquisition of accommodation suitable for the appointee's long-term needs at
the appointment location, reimbursement of the cost of 1 such visit.

    (3)    If the appointee chooses not to relocate dependants to the appointment
location, the appointee is entitled to:

        (a)  12 return economy airfares each year to the appointee's previous location
for the purposes of reunion travel; or
        (b)  air travel up to $6 600 a year for reunion travel. 

    (4)  An entitlement under subregulation (3) is for 3 years from the
day when the appointee starts his or her duty.  

    (5)    In this regulation:
"reunion travel "means:

        (a)  travel by the appointee to visit any of his or her dependants not living
at the appointment location; or
        (b)  travel by any of the dependants to visit the appointee;

that is approved by the Electoral Commissioner as reunion travel.

COMMONWEALTH ELECTORAL OFFICERS (ALLOWANCES) REGULATIONS 2000
- REG 5.3    Family care

 
    (1)  The appointee is entitled to reimbursement of costs associated
with additional family care arrangements if the appointee is required by the
AEC to be away from home outside normal working hours.  
    (2)  An entitlement under subregulation (1) must be in accordance with AEC
guidelines.  

COMMONWEALTH ELECTORAL OFFICERS (ALLOWANCES) REGULATIONS 2000
- REG 5.4    Certain travel costs of family member

     (1)    The appointee is entitled to reimbursement of reasonable travel costs
of a family member if:

        (a)  the appointee becomes critically or dangerously ill while travelling on
official business and is unable to return to the appointment location; and 
        (b)  a family member travels to visit the appointee while the appointee is
critically or dangerously ill; and
        (c)  a request for reimbursement of the travel costs of the family member is
made to the AEC; and
        (d)  satisfactory medical evidence of the condition of the appointee is given
to the AEC.  

    (2)    In this regulation:
"family member", in relation to an appointee, means:
    (a)    a child or adopted child of the appointee; or
    (b)    a child or adopted child of a person who is in a bona fide domestic
relationship with the appointee; or
    (c)    a person (other than a child mentioned in paragraph (a) or (b)) who:

        (i)  is related by blood or marriage to the appointee; and
        (ii)  has a strong affinity with the appointee; and 
        (iii)  is in a bona fide domestic relationship with the appointee.

COMMONWEALTH ELECTORAL OFFICERS (ALLOWANCES) REGULATIONS 2000

- NOTES

Compilation Information

[GRAPHIC]Commonwealth Electoral Officers (Allowances) Regulations
2000
Statutory Rules 
2000
No. 
28
as amended
This compilation was prepared on 5 April 2001taking into account amendments
up to SR 2001 No. 58
Prepared by the Office of Legislative Drafting,Attorney-General's
Department, Canberra

  

COMMONWEALTH ELECTORAL OFFICERS (ALLOWANCES) REGULATIONS 2000

- NOTES

COMMONWEALTH ELECTORAL OFFICERS (ALLOWANCES) REGULATIONS 2000- Note 1

Notes to the Commonwealth Electoral Officers (Allowances) Regulations 2000
Note 1
The Commonwealth Electoral Officers (Allowances) Regulations 2000 (in
force under the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918) as shown in this
compilation comprise Statutory Rules 2000 No. 28 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

2000
No. 28

23
Mar 2000

23
Mar 2000

2000
No. 354

20
Dec 2000

8
Jan 2001

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2001
No. 58

5
Apr 2001

5
Apr 2001

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Table
of Amendments

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and substituted

Provision
affected

How
affected

Part
3    (rr. 3.1-3.4)

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2001 No. 58

Rr.
3.1-3.4    

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2001 No. 58

Part
5    (rr. 5.1-5.4)

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2000 No. 354

Rr.
5.1-5.4    

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2000 No. 354