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FINANCIAL ACCOUNTABILITY REGIME ACT 2023 (NO. 67, 2023) - SECT 26

Meaning of variable remuneration

             (1)  The variable remuneration of an accountable person of an accountable entity or a significant related entity is:

                     (a)  so much (if any) of the accountable person's total remuneration as:

                              (i)  is conditional on the achievement of objectives; and

                             (ii)  is not remuneration of a kind prescribed by the Regulator rules for the purposes of this subparagraph; and

                     (b)  so much (if any) of the accountable person's total remuneration as is remuneration of a kind determined under paragraph (3)(a) or prescribed by the Regulator rules.

             (2)  However, remuneration of a kind determined under paragraph (3)(b) is not variable remuneration of an accountable person of an accountable entity or a significant related entity.

             (3)  The Regulator may, by written notice given to an accountable entity or a significant related entity, determine that:

                     (a)  remuneration of a particular kind, of one or more accountable persons, or of a class of accountable persons, of the accountable entity or significant related entity, is variable remuneration; or

                     (b)  remuneration of a particular kind, of one or more accountable persons, or of a class of accountable persons, of the accountable entity or significant related entity, is not variable remuneration.

Note:          A decision under this subsection is a reviewable decision (see Part 5 of Chapter 3).

             (4)  The Regulator must give a copy of a determination it makes under subsection (3) to each person who, when the determination is made, is an accountable person covered by the determination.

             (5)  If:

                     (a)  after a determination is made under subsection (3), a person becomes an accountable person of the accountable entity or significant related entity; and

                     (b)  the determination covers the person;

the accountable entity or significant related entity must give a copy of the determination to the person.

             (6)  A notice under subsection (3) is not a legislative instrument.

             (7)  Regulator rules made for the purposes of paragraph (1)(b), or a determination made for the purposes of paragraph (3)(a), may also identify the day, or a way of working out the day, on which the minimum deferral period for the variable remuneration starts.



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