Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY (SELF-GOVERNMENT) ACT 1988 - SECT 73

  (1)   In this section:

"office" means any of the following offices:

  (a)   Chief Minister;

  (b)   Deputy Chief Minister;

  (c)   Minister;

  (d)   member;

  (e)   Presiding Officer;

  (f)   Deputy Presiding Officer;

  (fa)   Chief Justice of the Supreme Court;

  (fb)   Judge of the Supreme Court;

  (fc)   Master of the Supreme Court;

  (fd)   Chief Magistrate;

  (fe)   Magistrate;

  (g)   an office declared by an enactment to be an office to which this section applies.

  (2)   Subject to subsection   (3A) of this section and subsection   29A(2) of the A.C.T. Self - Government (Consequential Provisions) Act 1988 , a person is, in respect of services in an office, to be paid such remuneration and allowances:

  (a)   if they are determined or specified by or under an enactment--as so determined or specified; or

  (b)   in any other case--as are determined by the Remuneration Tribunal.

  (3A)   The remuneration and allowances of a person holding an office specified in paragraph   (1)(fa), (fb), (fc), (fd) or (fe) are not to be diminished while the person holds that office.

  (4)   Where:

  (a)   the term of office of a person as member ends on the polling day for a general election; and

  (b)   the person is re - elected at that general election;

then, for the purposes of this section, the person shall be taken to have continued to serve in the office of member until the day on which the election of the person is declared.

  (5)   Where:

  (a)   the term of office of a person as member ends because the Assembly is dissolved under section   16; and

  (b)   the person is a candidate at the next general election;

then, for the purposes of this section, the person shall be taken to have continued to serve in the office of member until the polling day for that general election or, if the person is re - elected, until the day on which the election of the person is declared.