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COMMONWEALTH ELECTORAL OFFICERS (ALLOWANCES) AMENDMENT REGULATIONS 2000 (NO. 1) 2000 NO. 354 - SCHEDULE 1
Amendment
(regulation 3)
[1] After Part 4
insert
Part 5 Australian Electoral Officer
for South Australia prescribed allowances
5.1 Application and
purpose
For the purposes of subsection 22 (2) of the Act, the allowances set out in
this Part are prescribed for a person (the appointee ) appointed as the
Australian Electoral Officer for South Australia.
5.2 Relocation allowances
- (1)
- If the appointee is required to move from 1 location (the previous
location ) to another (the appointment location ) in order to take up the
appointment, the appointee is entitled to the relocation allowances set out in
this regulation.
(2) The appointee is entitled to:
- (a)
- payment or
reimbursement of reasonable transport and household goods removal costs at the
start and completion of the appointment period; and
- (b)
- an allowance to subsidise reasonable temporary accommodation costs at the
appointment location; and
- (c)
- if the period of appointment is 12 months or more and results in the
removal of the appointee's household goods to the appointment location, a
one-off (taxable) disturbance allowance of $1 829; and
- (d)
- reimbursement of reasonable costs incurred in avoiding serious disruption
to the final 2 years of secondary education of the appointee's children; and
(e) reimbursement of reasonable costs associated with the sale and purchase of
a home:
- (i)
- within 12 months of the start of the appointment period; and
- (ii)
- within 12 months of the completion of the appointment period; and
- (f)
- if a telephone service was held in the appointee's name at the previous
location, reimbursement of the cost of reconnecting 1 telephone at the
appointment location; and
- (g)
- reimbursement of fees for the transfer to the appointment location of the
registration of 1 motor vehicle or motor cycle of the appointee; and
- (h)
- reimbursement, up to $139.00, of the cost of moving pets to the
appointment location; and
- (i)
- if it can be shown that a pre-transfer visit will facilitate the
acquisition of accommodation suitable for the appointee's long-term needs at
the appointment location, reimbursement of the cost of 1 such visit.
(3) If the appointee chooses not to relocate dependants to the appointment
location, the appointee is entitled to:
- (a)
- 12 return economy airfares each
year to the appointee's previous location for the purposes of reunion travel;
or
- (b)
- air travel up to $6 600 a year for reunion travel.
- (4)
- An entitlement under subregulation (3) is for 3 years from the day when
the appointee starts his or her duty.
(5) In this regulation:
"reunion
travel "means:
- (a)
- travel by the appointee to visit any of his or her
dependants not living at the appointment location; or
- (b)
- travel by any of the dependants to visit the appointee;
that is approved by the Electoral Commissioner as reunion travel.
5.3 Family care
- (1)
- The appointee is entitled to reimbursement of costs
associated with additional family care arrangements if the appointee is
required by the AEC to be away from home outside normal working hours.
- (2)
- An entitlement under subregulation (1) must be in accordance with AEC
guidelines.
5.4 Certain travel costs of family member
(1) The appointee is entitled to reimbursement of reasonable travel costs of a
family member if:
- (a)
- the appointee becomes critically or dangerously ill
while travelling on official business and is unable to return to the
appointment location; and
- (b)
- a family member travels to visit the appointee while the appointee is
critically or dangerously ill; and
- (c)
- a request for reimbursement of the travel costs of the family member is
made to the AEC; and
- (d)
- satisfactory medical evidence of the condition of the appointee is given
to the AEC.
(2) In this regulation:
"family member", in relation to an appointee, means:
- (a)
- a child or adopted child of the appointee; or
- (b)
- a child or adopted child of a person who is in a bona fide domestic
relationship with the appointee; or
- (c)
- a person (other than a child mentioned in paragraph (a) or (b)) who:
- (i)
- is related by blood or marriage to the appointee; and
- (ii)
- has a strong affinity with the appointee; and
- (iii)
- is in a bona fide domestic relationship with the appointee.
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