1Public Accounts Committee Regulations

STATUTORY RULES.

Image unavailable in extracted text1953. No. .91

REGULATIONS UNDER THE PUBLIC ACCOUNTS COMMITTEE ACT 1951.*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Public Accounts Committee Act 1951.

Dated this fourth

day of November , 1953.

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Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

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Prime Minister.

Image unavailable in extracted textPublic Accounts Committee Regulations.

Citation.

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Public Accounts Committee Regulations.

Commencement.

2. These Regulations shall be deemed to have come into operation on the first day of October, 1952.

Definition.

3. In these Regulations, “the Act” means the Public Accounts Committee Act 1951.

Witnesses’ fees and expenses.

4. The scale in the Schedule to these Regulations is the prescribed scale for the purposes of section 20 of the Act.

Prescribed allowances.

5.—(1.) Subject to this regulation, the prescribed allowances for the purposes of section 22 of the Act are—

(a) in the case of the Chairman of the Committee—an allowance of Three pounds three shillings for each day upon which he attends a meeting of the Committee or of a Sectional Committee;

(b) in the case of the Vice-Chairman or a member of the Committee—an allowance of Two pounds ten shillings for each day on which he attends a meeting of the Committee or of a Sectional Committee; and

(c) in the case of the Chairman, the Vice-Chairman or a member of the Committee who travels in the course of his duties as a member of the Committee or of a Sectional Committee—such sum as is necessary to pay the expenses (if any) of his conveyance and a travelling allowance at the rate of Two pounds ten shillings per day.

Image unavailable in extracted text* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1953.

5534.—Price 3d. 15/7.9.1953.

(2.) Where, in the absence of the Chairman of the Committee, the Vice-Chairman or a member of the Committee presides at a meeting of the Committee or a Sectional Committee, the allowance payable to the Vice-Chairman or the member in respect of the day on which the meeting is held shall be the allowance specified in paragraph (a) of the last preceding sub-regulation,