Australian Capital Territory Numbered Ordinances

Remuneration (Amendment) Ordinance 1988

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

Remuneration (Amendment) Ordinance 1988

No. 50 of 1988

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Ordinance under the Seat of Government (Administration) Act 1910.

Dated 25 July 1988.

N. M. STEPHEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

GARY PUNCH

Minister of State for the Arts
and Territories

An Ordinance to amend the Remuneration Ordinance 1976

Short title

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Remuneration (Amendment) Ordinance 1988.¹

Commencement

2. This Ordinance shall be deemed to have come into operation on 1 July 1986.

Principal Ordinance

3. In this Ordinance, “Principal Ordinance” means the Remuneration Ordinance 1976.²

Interpretation

4. Section 2 of the Principal Ordinance is amended—

(a) by omitting from subsection (1) the definition of “prescribed periods of engagement on authorised business”;

(b) by omitting from paragraph (a) of the definition of “relevant fee” in subsection (1) “$169” and substituting “$173”; and

(c) by omitting from paragraph (b) of the definition of “relevant fee” in subsection (1) “$136” and substituting “$139”.

Fees and allowances payable to members of a prescribed authority

5. Section 3 of the Principal Ordinance is amended—

(a) by omitting from subsection (1) “(7)” and substituting “(7B)”;

(b) by omitting subsections (3), (4), (5), (6) and (7) and substituting the following subsections:

“(3) If, on any day, a member of a prescribed authority was engaged in attending a meeting or meetings of the authority, the member is entitled to be paid an amount calculated in accordance with subsection (4).

“(4) For the purposes of subsection (3), the amount is, in the case of a meeting the duration of which, or 2 or more meetings the aggregate duration of which, was—

(a) less than 2 hours—two-fifths of the relevant fee;

(b) not less than 2 hours but less than 3 hours—three-fifths of the relevant fee; or

(c) not less than 3 hours—the relevant fee.

“(5) If, on any day, a member of a prescribed authority was engaged, for a period of not less than 3 hours, with the approval of the authority, on business of the authority, the member is entitled to be paid the relevant fee.

“(6) If, on any day, a member of a prescribed authority was engaged—

(a) in attending a meeting or meetings of the authority; and

(b) with the approval of the authority, on business of the authority;

and the aggregate of the periods during which the member was engaged in that attendance or on that business was not less than 3 hours, the member is entitled to be paid the relevant fee.

“(7) If, on any day, a member of a prescribed authority was engaged—

(a) in attending a meeting or meetings of the authority; and

(b) with the approval of the authority, on business of the authority;

and the aggregate of the periods during which the member was engaged in that attendance or on that business was not less than 2 hours but was less than 3 hours, the member is entitled to be paid an amount equal to three-fifths of the relevant fee.

“(7A) If—

(a) a member of a prescribed authority was engaged with the approval of the authority, on business of the authority for periods of not less than 1 hour but less than 3 hours;

(b) each of those periods fell during a day that was not a day on which a meeting of the authority was held; and

(c) the aggregate of those periods was not less than 5 hours;

the member is entitled to be paid the relevant fee.

“(7B) A member of a prescribed authority is not entitled to be paid more than the relevant fee in respect of any one day for periods on that day during which the member was engaged in attending a meeting or meetings of the authority or, with the approval of the authority, was on business of the authority.”;

(c) by omitting from paragraph (8) (a) “$110” and substituting “$115”; and

(d) by omitting from paragraph (8) (b) “$85” and substituting “$89”.

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 3 August 1988.

2. No. 62, 1976 as amended by Nos. 21 and 48, 1978; Nos. 12 and 54, 1980; No. 14, 1982; No. 1, 1983; No. 19, 1984; No. 11, 1986.