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REMUNERATION TRIBUNAL (MEMBERS' FEES AND ALLOWANCES) REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT)1992 NO. 193

EXPLANATORY STATEMENT

Statutory Rules 1992 No. 193

(Issued by the Authority of the Minister for Industrial Relations)

Remuneration Tribunal Act 1973

Remuneration Tribunal (Members' Fees and Allowances) Regulations (Amendment)

Section 13 of the Remuneration Tribunal Act 1973 (the Act) provides that the GovernorGeneral may make regulations for the purposes of the Act.

Section 12 of the Act provides that the part-time members of the Remuneration Tribunal (the Tribunal) shall be paid such fees and allowances as are prescribed. The Chairman of the Tribunal, being required to be a Judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, is not paid a fee. The fees of other members are prescribed in the Remuneration Tribunal (Members' Fees and Allowances) Regulations (the Regulations).

The practice has been to increase the annual rate of the fee by the same percentage amount and with the same date of effect as applied by the Tribunal itself in determining new rates for part-time public office-holders under its jurisdiction.

The Tribunal's Determination No 22 of 1991, made on 24 November 1991, increased fees for part-time office-holders by 2.5 per cent from 15 August 1991. Regulation 3 amends regulation 4 of the Regulations to increase the annual fee from $19,371 to 19,855 for members of the Tribunal.

Regulation 1 provides that this increase operates from 15 August 1991. The retrospective application of regulation 1 will not affect the rights of a person (other than the Commonwealth) in a manner prejudicial to that person, nor does it impose any liability on such a person.

The Regulations previously referred to 'members of the Remuneration Tribunal' in regulation 4. As the Regulations cover only members of that Tribunal, the words 'of the Remuneration Tribunal' have been omitted from regulation 4 as they were unnecessary.


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