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COMMONWEALTH ELECTORAL OFFICERS (ALLOWANCES) REGULATIONS 2000 2000 NO. 28 - REG 4.3

Additional relocation allowances
(1)
If an appointee is required to move from the appointee's home location to a new location to take up an appointment as Australian Electoral Officer for the Northern Territory or Tasmania, the appointee is entitled to the additional relocation allowances set out in this regulation.

(2)
The appointee is entitled to reimbursement of:

(a)
reasonable transport and removal costs associated with moving the appointee and his or her family and household goods to the new location; and

(b)
either:

(i)
reasonable transport and removal costs associated with returning the appointee and his or her family and household goods to the home location at the end of the appointment period; or
(ii)
if the appointee is moving to another location at the end of the appointment period, reasonable transport and removal costs associated with moving the appointee and his or her family and household goods to the other location (not exceeding the amount to which the appointee would be entitled if he or she were returning to the home location).
(3)
The appointee is entitled to reimbursement of reasonable costs associated with:

(a)
selling the appointee's home at the home location, and buying a home at the new location, within 12 months after the commencement of the appointment period; and

(b)
selling the appointee's home at the new location, and buying a home at the home location or at another location to which the appointee is moving, within 12 months after the end of the appointment period.

(4)
The appointee is entitled to temporary accommodation allowance for the lesser of:

(a)
the period between the commencement of the appointment period and the buying of a home at the new location; and

(b)
3 years.

(5)
If the appointee has any dependants who do not move with the appointee to the new location, the appointee may choose 1 of the following entitlements:

(a)
6 economy class return airfares a year for the purposes of reunion travel;

(b)
travel to the value of $3,300 a year for the purposes of reunion travel.

(6)
An entitlement under subregulation (5) is for 3 years from the commencement of the appointment or for the period served by the appointee, whichever is less.

(7)
In subregulation (5):

"reunion travel "means:

(a)
travel by the appointee to visit any of his or her dependants not living at the new location; or

(b)
travel by any of the dependants to visit the appointee;

that is approved by the Electoral Commissioner as reunion travel.

1. Made by the Governor-General on 22 March 2000, and notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 23 March 2000.



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