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JUDICIAL AND STATUTORY OFFICERS (REMUNERATION AND ALLOWANCES) AMENDMENT REGULATIONS 2000 (NO. 1) 2000 NO. 21

STATUTORY RULES 2000 No. 21

Issued by the Authority of the Minister for Finance and Administration

Judicial and Statutory Officers (Remuneration and Allowances) Act 1984

Judicial and Statutory Officers (Remuneration and Allowances) Amendment Regulations 2000 (No. 1)

The attached Statutory Rule makes regulations under subsection 8(3) of the Judicial and Statutory Officers (Remuneration and Allowances) Act 1984 (the Act) to amend the Judicial and Statutory Officers (Remuneration and Allowances) Regulations (the Regulations).

Subsection 8(3) of the Judicial and Statutory Officers (Remuneration and Allowances) Act 1984 (the Act) provides that the Governor-General may make regulations to give effect to Section 8 of the Act.

Subsection 8(1) of the Act provides that where a person who is appointed to hold a statutory office in a full-time capacity is, immediately before the appointment, a full-time statutory office holder or officer (including unattached officer) of the Australian Public Service, the person must, if the regulations so provide, be paid during the period of appointment to the firstmentioned office, in lieu of remuneration payable in respect of that office, remuneration at such rate as is specified in the regulations.

The purpose of the Amendment Regulation is to provide salary maintenance arrangements for the new appointee to the office of the Chairperson of the Superannuation Complaints Tribunal. The new appointee who will hold the office of Tribunal Chairperson from 14 March 2000 is currently a Deputy President of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal.

Amendment Regulation No 3 provides that the principal Regulations are amended as set out in Schedule 1.

Schedule 1 of the Amendment Regulations will be taken to have commenced on 14 March 2000, and provides that the holder of the office of Tribunal Chairperson is to be paid remuneration and allowances prescribed in relation to the office of Deputy President of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal.

The Regulations commenced on gazettal.

Authority:       Subsection 8(3) of the Judicial and Statutory Officers (Remuneration and Allowances) Act 1984