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REMUNERATION TRIBUNAL (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) AMENDMENT REGULATIONS 2001 (NO. 1) 2001 NO. 59

EXPLANATORY STATEMENT

Statutory Rules 2001 No. 59

(Issued by the authority of the Minister for Finance and Administration)

Remuneration Tribunal Act 1973

Remuneration Tribunal (Miscellaneous Provisions) Amendment Regulations 2001 (No. 1)

Section 13 of the Remuneration Tribunal Act 1973 (the Act) provides that the Governor-General may make Regulations for the purposes of this Act.

Subsection 5(2A) of the Act provides that one of the functions of the Remuneration Tribunal is to provide advice to employing bodies in relation to terms and conditions (including remuneration and allowances) on which principal executive offices (PEOs) are to be held.

Paragraph 3(4)(ra) identifies a PEO, in the terms of the legislation, as an office or appointment declared by Regulation to be a PEO. Subsection 3(1) of the Act defines employing body as the entity declared by Regulation to be the employing body of the PEO.

The purpose of the new Regulations is to establish twenty new PEOs.

The Remuneration Tribunal has established a PEO structure to enable a PEO and its employing body to negotiate, within parameters set by the Tribunal, productivity and work value increases in remuneration from one year to the next.

Any statutory office holder or head of a Commonwealth entity can be declared a PEO unless there is a public policy reason for their remuneration to be set by the Remuneration Tribunal.

The employing body will have the authority to set the remuneration for the designated PEO pursuant to Section 12C of the Act and within parameters established by the Remuneration Tribunal.

The new Regulations amend Schedule 1A to the Principal Regulations to add twenty PEOs and to list each PEO’s employing body.

The new Regulations commenced on the date of gazettal.


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