{"id":"C1975L00146","name":"Officers' Rights Declaration Regulations","slug":"officers-rights-declaration-regulations","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"repealed","isInForce":false,"actNumber":"146 of 1975","makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":24881,"registerId":"commonwealth-C1975L00146-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-01","status":"Repealed","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Officers' Rights Declaration Regulations","content":"![Commonwealth Coat of Arms of Australia](image.001.png)\n\nStatutory Rules\n\n1975 No. 146\n\nREGULATIONS UNDER THE OFFICERS’ RIGHTS DECLARATION ACT 1928-1975.\\*\n\nI, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of Australia, acting with the advice of the Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Officer’ Rights Declaration Act 1928-1975.\n\nDated this twenty-second day of July, 1975.\n\nJOHN R. KERR\n\nGovernor-General.\n\nBy His Excellency’s Command,\n\nJ. McCLELLAND\n\nMinister of State for Labor and Immigration for and on behalf of the Prime Minister.\n\nOFFICERS’ RIGHTS DECLARATION REGULATIONS\n\nCitation.\n\n1. These Regulations may be cited as the Officers’ Rights Declaration Regulations.\n\nCommencement.\n\n2. These Regulations shall be deemed to have come into operation on 1 July 1975.\n\nDefinition.\n\n3. In these Regulations, “ the Act ” means the Officers’ Rights Declaration Act 1928-1975.\n\nPrescribed Territory law.\n\n4. The Health Commission Ordinance 1975 of the Australian Capital Territory is a prescribed Territory law for the purposes of the Act.\n\n\\* Notified in the Australian Government Gazette on 29 July 1975.","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"kimi_summary":{"_metrics":{"model":"kimi-k2.5","source":"moonshot-batch","completionTokens":1713},"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":1,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The regulations maintain a narrow, specific purpose consistent with their original intent: to prescribe a single Territory ordinance (the Health Commission Ordinance 1975) under the parent Act. There is no evidence of scope creep or expansion beyond this straightforward administrative designation."},"complexity_factors":["Only 4 sections total","Single substantive provision (regulation 4)","No conditional logic, exceptions, or nested provisions","Only 1 defined term ('the Act')","No internal cross-references or dependencies between provisions"],"plain_english_summary":"These regulations protect Commonwealth public servants whose jobs are affected by a specific health law in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT).\n\n**What it does:**\n- Designates the *Health Commission Ordinance 1975* (an ACT law) as a \"prescribed Territory law\" under the *Officers' Rights Declaration Act 1928-1975*.\n\n**Why this matters:**\nThe *Officers' Rights Declaration Act* protects public servants when their employment is affected by changes to government structures or Territory legislation. By \"prescribing\" (officially listing) the ACT Health Commission Ordinance under this Act, these regulations ensure that Commonwealth officers whose jobs, pay, or conditions are impacted by that Territory health law receive statutory protections—including guarantees about their terms of employment, compensation, or reinstatement rights.\n\n**In short:** If you were a Commonwealth officer in 1975 and the ACT Health Commission Ordinance affected your job, these regulations ensured you had special employment protections under federal law."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/officers-rights-declaration-regulations","history":"/api/acts/officers-rights-declaration-regulations/history","analysis":"/api/acts/officers-rights-declaration-regulations/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/officers-rights-declaration-regulations/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/officers-rights-declaration-regulations/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/officers-rights-declaration-regulations/documents"}}