{"id":"C1942L00298","name":"Australian Broadcasting Commission (Staff) Regulations","slug":"australian-broadcasting-commission-staff-regulations","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"repealed","isInForce":false,"actNumber":"298 of 1942","makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":22738,"registerId":"commonwealth-C1942L00298-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-01","status":"Repealed","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Australian Broadcasting Commission (Staff) Regulations","content":"STATUTORY RULES.\n\n1942\\. No. 298.\n\nREGULATIONS UNDER THE AUSTRALIAN BROADCASTING ACT 1942.\\*\n\nI, THE DEPUTY OF THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby mate the following Regulations under the Australian Broad­casting Act 1942.\n\nDated this First day of July, 1942.\n\n![Signature of Lord Wakehurst. ](image.001.jpeg)\n\nGovernor-General.\n\nBy His Excellency’s Command,\n\n![Signature. ](image.002.jpeg)\n\nfor and on behalf\n\nof the Postmaster-General.\n\n———\n\nAustralian Broadcasting Commission (Staff) Regulations.\n\nCitation.\n\n1. These Regulations may be cited as the Australian Broadcasting Commission (Staff) Regulations.\n\nConditions of staff of Australian Broadcasting Commission.\n\n2. Officers and servants appointed by the Commission under section 17 of the Australian Broadcasting Act 1942 (including officers and servants of the Australian Broadcasting Commission constituted under the Australian Broadcasting Commission Act 1932-1940 deemed, by virtue of sub-section (8.) of section 17 of the Australian Broadcasting Act 1942, to have been appointed by the Commission under that section) shall, subject to the Australian Broadcasting Act 1942, be subject to the same conditions (including tenure of office) as the conditions to which they were subject immediately prior to the commencement of the Australian Broadcasting Act 1942.\n\n\\* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1942.\n\nBy Authority: L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.\n\n4670.—Price 3d. 25/24.6.1942.","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"kimi_summary":{"_metrics":{"model":"kimi-k2.5","source":"moonshot-batch","completionTokens":1696},"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":1,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The regulations remain tightly focused on their original transitional purpose. The instrument contains only a citation provision and the core staff protection clause, showing no expansion beyond the original intent of preserving employment conditions during the 1942 legislative transition."},"complexity_factors":["Only 2 operative provisions total","No definitions section or interpretation provisions","Single straightforward concept: preservation of pre-existing employment conditions","Minimal cross-referencing limited to specific sections of the enabling Act and its predecessor"],"plain_english_summary":"**What this does:** These regulations protect existing ABC employees when the broadcasting laws changed in 1942. They ensure staff kept their existing jobs, salaries, and working conditions rather than starting from scratch under the new system.\n\n**Who it affects:** Officers and employees of the Australian Broadcasting Commission who were already working there when the Australian Broadcasting Act 1942 began (including those automatically transferred from the old 1932-1940 legislation).\n\n**Why it matters:** This is a \"business as usual\" rule. Without it, a change in the underlying Act might have created uncertainty about whether existing staff contracts were still valid. Instead, the regulations explicitly preserve the status quo—including job security (tenure)—exactly as it existed under the previous law.\n\n**Key point:** If you worked for the ABC before July 1942, your employment contract continued unchanged despite the new legislation."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/australian-broadcasting-commission-staff-regulations","history":"/api/acts/australian-broadcasting-commission-staff-regulations/history","analysis":"/api/acts/australian-broadcasting-commission-staff-regulations/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/australian-broadcasting-commission-staff-regulations/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/australian-broadcasting-commission-staff-regulations/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/australian-broadcasting-commission-staff-regulations/documents"}}