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REMUNERATION TRIBUNAL (MEMBERS' FEES AND ALLOWANCES) REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) 1994 NO. 159

Statutory Rules 1994 No. 159

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 Governor-General may make regulations for the purposes of the Act.

Section 12 of the Act provides in part that a member of the Remuneration Tribunal (the Tribunal) is to be paid such fees and allowances as are prescribed.

Regulation 4 of the Remuneration Tribunal (Members Fees and Allowances) Regulations (the Regulations) prescribes an annual fee to be paid to a member of the Tribunal.

Regulation 4A had prescribed a fee to be paid to the Chairman of the Tribunal.

It was appropriate to adjust the annual fees paid to members of the Tribunal, in line with increases determined by the Tribunal for other statutory public office holders in May and December 1993.

It has also been necessary to amend a reference in the Regulations to 'the Chairman' to 'the President' of the Tribunal. This reflects the same amendment to the Act made by the Industrial Relations and other Legislation Amendment Act 1993.

Regulation 2 amends regulation 4 of the Regulations by omitting the annual fee payable to the members of the Tribunal, other than the Chairman, and prescibing new fees for the President and members of the Tribunal.

Regulation 3 omits regulation 4A of the Regulations, as the regulation was no longer needed.