{"id":"C2004L05718","name":"Papua New Guinea Independence (Public Service) Regulations (Repeal)","slug":"papua-new-guinea-independence-public-service-regulations-repeal","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"repealed","isInForce":false,"actNumber":"115 of 1995","makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":27933,"registerId":"commonwealth-C2004L05718-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-01","status":"Repealed","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Papua New Guinea Independence (Public Service) Regulations (Repeal)","content":"---\nmeta-content-style-type: text/css\nmeta-content-type: application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8\nmeta-generator: Aspose.Words for .NET 20.2\ntitle: 94R508 (PNG Ind Pub Serv)\n---\n\n?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\" standalone=\"no\"?>\n\n![](image.001.png)\n\nStatutory Rules 1995   No. 1151\n\n__________________\n\nPapua New Guinea Independence (Public Service) Regulations (Repeal)\n\nI, The Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Regulation under the Papua New Guinea Independence Act 1975.\n\nDated 30 May 1995.\n\n \n\n BILL HAYDEN\n\n Governor-General\n\nBy His Excellency’s Command,\n\n \n\n \n\nGARETH EVANS\n\nMinister for Foreign Affairs\n\n____________\n\n1.   Repeal of the Papua New Guinea Independence (Public Service) Regulations\n\n1.1   Statutory Rules 1976 No. 110 and 1977 No. 92 are repealed.\n\n[NOTE: This Regulation commences on gazettal: see Acts Interpretation Act 1901, s. 48.]\n\nNOTE\n\n1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 6 June 1995.\n","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"kimi_summary":{"_metrics":{"model":"kimi-k2.5","source":"moonshot-batch","completionTokens":1422},"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":1,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"This instrument performs a narrow housekeeping function. It does not expand the scope of the Papua New Guinea Independence Act 1975; rather, it reduces the regulatory footprint by removing obsolete transitional regulations that were always intended to be temporary."},"complexity_factors":["Single operative provision containing only one repeal direction","No defined terms or interpretation sections","No conditional logic, exceptions, or nested provisions","Only two legislative cross-references (to the regulations being repealed)","Total length of approximately 150 words"],"plain_english_summary":"**What this does:**\n\nThis regulation scraps two old sets of rules from 1976 and 1977 that dealt with public service arrangements when Papua New Guinea (PNG) became independent from Australia in 1975.\n\n**Who it affects:**\n\nPrimarily a technical cleanup. It affects any remaining administrative arrangements still tied to the 1976 and 1977 regulations, though by 1995 these transitional rules had largely served their purpose.\n\n**Why it matters:**\n\nWhen PNG gained independence, Australia needed temporary rules to manage the transfer of public servants — things like moving Australian officials to PNG employment or handling their pensions. Twenty years later, these transitional arrangements were obsolete. This regulation tidies up the statute books by formally cancelling (repealing) Statutory Rules 1976 No. 110 and 1977 No. 92.\n\n**Key detail:**\n\nThe repeal happens immediately upon being published in the Gazette (the official government newspaper)."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/papua-new-guinea-independence-public-service-regulations-repeal","history":"/api/acts/papua-new-guinea-independence-public-service-regulations-repeal/history","analysis":"/api/acts/papua-new-guinea-independence-public-service-regulations-repeal/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/papua-new-guinea-independence-public-service-regulations-repeal/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/papua-new-guinea-independence-public-service-regulations-repeal/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/papua-new-guinea-independence-public-service-regulations-repeal/documents"}}