Commonwealth Numbered Regulations

1980 No. 115 FINANCE REGULATIONS (AMENDMENTS) - REG 2

2. Regulation 4 of the Finance Regulations is amended-
(a) by omitting from sub-regulation (1) the definition of "Chief Officer";
(b) by inserting after the definition of "Collector" in sub-regulation (1) the
following definition:

" 'Department' means-

   (a)  a Department of State;

   (b)  a Department of the Parliament;

   (c)  a prescribed authority the staff of which consists of persons employed
        under the Public Service Act 1922; or

   (d)  a branch of the Australian Public Service in relation to which the
        person who holds, or is performing the duties of, the office of-

        (i)    Auditor-General;

        (ii)   Commissioner of Taxation;

        (iii)  Commonwealth Ombudsman; or

        (iv)   Supervising Scientist for the Alligator Rivers Region,
has, under an Act, the powers of, or exercisable by, the Permanent Head of a
Department of the Australian Public Service;";

   (c)  by inserting after the definition of "licence" in sub-regulation (1)
        the following definition:

" 'Permanent Head', in relation to a Department, means-

   (a)  where the Department is a Department of State or a Department of the
        Parliament-the person who, under the Public Service Act 1922, holds,
        or is performing the duties of, the office of Permanent Head of that
        Department;

   (b)  where the Department is a prescribed authority the Staff of which
        consists of persons employed under the Public Service Act 1922-the
        person who has, under an Act, in relation to the branch or part of the
        Australian Public Service comprising the staff of the prescribed
        authority, the powers of, or exercisable by, the Permanent Head of a
        Department of the Australian Public Service so far as those powers
        relate to that branch or part of that Service; or

   (c)  where the Department is a branch of the Australian Public Service
        referred to in paragraph (d) of the definition of 'Department'-the
        person who, in relation to that branch, has, under an Act, the powers
        of, or exercisable by, the Permanent Head of a Department of the
        Australian Public Service so far
as those powers relate to that branch of that Service;";   (d)  by omitting
from sub-regulation (1) the definition of "The Commonwealth Public Account";
and

   (e)  by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulations:

"(4) A reference in a provision of these Regulations to the Permanent Head
shall, in the application of that provision to, or in relation to, matters
arising in a Department, be read as a reference to the Permanent Head of that
Department.



"(5) A reference in a provision or part of a provision of these Regulations to
an authorized officer shall, in the application of that provision or part of a
provision to, or in relation to, matters arising in a Department, be read as a
reference to an officer who is authorized for the purposes of that provision
or part of a provision by the Permanent Head of that Department.".