Remuneration Tribunal Determination 2012/06 - Departmental Secretaries - Classification Structure and Terms and Conditions
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Relocation costs and allowances
7.2 A Secretary is entitled to payment at Commonwealth expense of his or her relocation costs from his or her home locality to the new locality in order to take up his or her appointment as a Secretary.
7.3 For the purposes of clause 7.2, relocation costs include, as applicable:
(a) transportation of the Secretary and his or her partner and dependants, if any, from the home locality to the new locality, and their return to the home locality when the Secretary ceases to hold office as Secretary for whatever reason; and
(b) the insured removal of the furniture, household effects and domestic animals of the Secretary and his or her partner and dependants from the home locality to the new locality, and their return to the home locality when the Secretary ceases to hold office as Secretary for whatever reason; and
(c) costs of sale and purchase of residential housing under clause 7.10 below; and
(d) if the Secretary rents accommodation in the new locality, bond money and utility connection deposits, to be repaid to the Commonwealth at the end of the tenancy.