Commonwealth legislation

Governor-General Regulations

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Jurisdiction

Commonwealth

Act Number

467 of 1984

Collection

legislative instrument

Plain English Summary

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These regulations set the salary and work-related allowances for the Official Secretary to the Governor-General (the Governor-General’s chief of staff, essentially). Rather than listing specific dollar amounts, the rules use a common legislative shortcut called "indexing"—they simply state that the Official Secretary must be paid the same as a Level 3 Senior Executive Service (SES) officer in the Australian Public Service.

Why this matters:

Automatic updates: When public service pay scales increase, the Official Secretary’s pay goes up automatically—no need to pass new regulations.
Covers everything: Both the base salary ("remuneration") and expense payments ("allowances") are set by reference to that SES level.
Short and sweet: At just two regulations long, this is about as streamlined as Commonwealth legislation gets.

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Governor-General Regulations

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Statutory Rules 1984 No. 4671

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Governor-General Regulations

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council and pursuant to section 4 of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901, hereby make the following Regulations under the Governor-General Act 1974.

Dated 21 December 1984.

N. M. STEPHEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

JOHN N. BUTTON

Minister of State for

Industry, Technology and Commerce

for and on behalf of the

Prime Minister

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Citation

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

Remuneration and allowances of Official Secretary

For the purposes of sub-sections 8 (1) and (2) respectively of the Governor-General Act 1974, the following remuneration and allowances are prescribed, namely, the remuneration and allowances payable to a Level 3 officer in the Senior Executive Service of the Australian Public Service.

NOTE

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 21 December 1984.

Source text

Sourced from the Federal Register of Legislation (legislation.gov.au), CC BY 4.0.

1 Governor-General Regulations

Statutory Rules 1984 No. 4671

–––––––

Governor-General Regulations

Dated 21 December 1984.

N. M. STEPHEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

JOHN N. BUTTON

Minister of State for

Industry, Technology and Commerce

for and on behalf of the

Prime Minister

–––––––––

Citation

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

Remuneration and allowances of Official Secretary

For the purposes of sub-sections 8 (1) and (2) respectively of the Governor-General Act 1974, the following remuneration and allowances are prescribed, namely, the remuneration and allowances payable to a Level 3 officer in the Senior Executive Service of the Australian Public Service.

NOTE

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 21 December 1984.