{"id":"C1974L00007","name":"Remuneration and Allowances Regulations","slug":"remuneration-and-allowances-regulations","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"repealed","isInForce":false,"actNumber":"7 of 1974","makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":24808,"registerId":"commonwealth-C1974L00007-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-01","status":"Repealed","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Remuneration and Allowances Regulations","content":"![Commonwealth Coat of Arms of Australia](image.001.png)\n\nStatutory Rules\n\n1974 No. 7\n\nREGULATIONS UNDER THE REMUNERATION AND ALLOWANCES ACTS 1973.\\*\n\nI, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of Australia, acting with the advice of the Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Remuneration and Allowances Acts 1973.\n\nDated this eleventh day of January, 1974.\n\nPAUL HASLUCK\n\nGovernor-General.\n\nBy His Excellency’s Command,\n\nTOM UREN\n\nMinister of State for Urban and Regional Development for and on behalf of the Prime Minister.\n\nREMUNERATION AND ALLOWANCES REGULATIONS\n\nCitation.\n\n1. These Regulations may be cited as the Remuneration and Allowances Regulations.\n\nRemuneration and annual allowance of officer appointed full-time member of Grants Commission.\n\n2. Where a person appointed to hold the office of full-time member of the Grants Commission was, immediately before his appointment, an officer of the Public Service and was, on 29 November 1973, the holder of the office of Secretary to the Department of Housing, he shall be paid, during the period of his appointment (including any period of re-appointment) to the office of full-time member of the Grants Commission, in lieu of the remuneration and annual allowance (if any) payable in respect of that office, remuneration and an annual allowance at the rates per annum respectively applicable to the office of Permanent Head of a Department of the Public Service other than a Department of the Parliament.\n\n\\* Notified in the Australian Government Gazette on 15 January 1974.","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"kimi_summary":{"_metrics":{"model":"kimi-k2.5","source":"moonshot-batch","completionTokens":2044},"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":1,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The regulation remains a narrow, transitional remuneration provision. It has not expanded beyond its original purpose of protecting the salary of a specific officer transitioning from the Department of Housing to the Grants Commission."},"complexity_factors":["Only two operative provisions (citation and single remuneration rule)","No defined terms section","Single, highly specific condition targeting one identifiable individual based on a specific date (29 November 1973)","No cross-references to other legislation beyond the parent Act","No exceptions, nested conditions, or alternative scenarios"],"plain_english_summary":"This regulation preserves the higher Secretary (Permanent Head) salary for a specific public servant who was Secretary of the Department of Housing on 29 November 1973 and later appointed as a full‑time member of the Grants Commission. It applies to that one identifiable individual to prevent a pay reduction on transfer, reflecting the common salary‑protection practice for senior Australian Public Service officers moving to statutory roles."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/remuneration-and-allowances-regulations","history":"/api/acts/remuneration-and-allowances-regulations/history","analysis":"/api/acts/remuneration-and-allowances-regulations/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/remuneration-and-allowances-regulations/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/remuneration-and-allowances-regulations/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/remuneration-and-allowances-regulations/documents"}}