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JUDICIAL AND STATUTORY OFFICERS (REMUNERATION AND ALLOWANCES) REGULATIONS(AMENDMENT) 1996 NO. 352

Statutory Rules 1996 No. 352

Issued by the Authority of the Minister for Industrial Relations

Judicial and Statutory Officers (Remuneration and Allowances) Act 1984

Judicial and Statutory Officers (Remuneration and Allowances) Regulations (Amendment)

Subsection 8(3) of the Judicial and Statutory Officers (Remuneration and Allowances) Act 1984 (the Act) provides that the Governor-General may make regulations for the .purposes of section 8 of the Act.

Subsection 8(1) of the Act inter alia provides that where a person appointed to hold a statutory office in a full-time capacity was, immediately before the appointment, the holder in a full-time capacity of another statutory office the person shall, if the regulations so provide, be paid during the period of the appointment to the first mentioned office, in lieu of the remuneration payable in respect of that office, remuneration at such rate as is specified in the regulations.

It is necessary to amend the Judicial and Statutory Officers (Remuneration and Allowances) Regulations. The amending regulation is required to enable a person to be paid remuneration while she occupies the office of Privacy Commissioner, at the rate equal to the remuneration that the officer would have received had she continued to occupy the office of Second Commissioner of Taxation.

The Attorney-General is recommending the appointment as Privacy Commissioner of a person who now holds the statutory office of Second Commissioner of Taxation in a full-time capacity. The proposed appointment would be from 6 February 1997 for a period of five years.

The proposed appointee's annual remuneration as Second Commissioner of Taxation, as determined by the Remuneration Tribunal, would be $152,490 (comprising salary of $132,600 and non-tenured remuneration loading of $19,890: these amounts include an increase that takes effect on 2 January 1997).

The Regulations commenced on gazettal.