GOVERNOR-GENERAL REGULATIONS 1989 NO. 13 

GOVERNOR-GENERAL REGULATIONS 1989 NO. 13 
- TABLE OF PROVISIONS

1. Citation  
2. Interpretation  
3. Allowances-Official Secretary  
4. Clothing allowance  


1989 No. 13 GOVERNOR-GENERAL REGULATIONS
- REG 1
Citation


  1. These Regulations may be cited as the Governor-General Regulations.


1989 No. 13 GOVERNOR-GENERAL REGULATIONS
- REG 2
Interpretation


  2. In these Regulations, unless the contrary intention appears:
  "quarter" means a period of 3 months commencing on 1 January, 1 April, 1
July or 1 October;
  "the Act" means the Governor-General Act 1974.


1989 No. 13 GOVERNOR-GENERAL REGULATIONS
- REG 3
Allowances-Official Secretary


  3. (1) For the purposes of subsection 8 (2) of the Act, the following
allowances are prescribed, namely:
  (a)  the clothing establishment allowance referred to in subregulation 4 (1)
or (2);
  (b)  the clothing maintenance allowance referred to in subregulation 4 (3);
and
  (c)  the allowances payable to a Level 4 officer in the Senior Executive
Service of the Australian Public Service.
  (2) The allowances referred to in paragraphs (1) (a) and (b) apply in
respect of the Official Secretary:
  (a)  with effect from and including 22 April 1987; and
  (b)  as if the person who was Official Secretary on 22 April 1987 was
appointed as Official Secretary on that day.


1989 No. 13 GOVERNOR-GENERAL REGULATIONS
- REG 4
Clothing allowance


  4. (1) The clothing establishment allowance payable to the Official
Secretary in respect of the period of 12 months commencing on 22 April 1987
is:
  (a)  in respect of a single male person-$1,100;
  (b)  in respect of a male person who has a spouse-$2,800;
  (c)  in respect of a single female person-$2,600; and
  (d)  in respect of a female person who has a spouse-$3,315.
  (2) The clothing establishment allowance payable to a person appointed as
Official Secretary after 22 April 1987, in respect of the period of 12 months
commencing on the day of his or her appointment, is an amount calculated in
accordance with the formula:
                                     A X N
                                     153.1
where: A is the amount that would have been payable to that person if that
person had been appointed as Official Secretary on 22 April 1987 in respect of
the period of 12 months commencing on that day; N is the Consumer Price Index
number in respect of clothing for Canberra published by the Australian
Statistician in respect of the quarter immediately preceding the quarter
during which that person was so appointed as Official Secretary.
  (3) The clothing maintenance allowance payable to the Official Secretary in
respect of a period of 12 months commencing on an anniversary of the day on
which he or she was appointed as Official Secretary is 75% of the amount that
would have been payable to that person if that person had been appointed as
Official Secretary on that anniversary.


- NOTES


1989 No. 13*1* GOVERNOR-GENERAL REGULATIONS



*1* Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 20 February 1989.