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Serial 141
Assembly
Members and Statutory Officers (Remuneration and Other Entitlements) Legislation
Amendment Bill 2015
Mr
Giles
A Bill for an Act to amend the Assembly Members and Statutory Officers (Remuneration and Other Entitlements) Act and Assembly Members and Statutory Officers (Remuneration and Other Entitlements) Regulations
NORTHERN TERRITORY OF AUSTRALIA
ASSEMBLY MEMBERS AND STATUTORY OFFICERS (REMUNERATION AND OTHER ENTITLEMENTS) LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT 2015
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Act No. [ ] of 2015
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Table of provisions
4AA Tribunal's power in relation to former Assembly member
4AB Circumstances
of disentitlement
NORTHERN
TERRITORY OF AUSTRALIA
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Act No. [ ] of 2015
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An Act to amend the Assembly Members and Statutory Officers (Remuneration and Other Entitlements) Act and Assembly Members and Statutory Officers (Remuneration and Other Entitlements) Regulations
[Assented to [ ] 2015]
[Second reading [ ] 2015]
The Legislative Assembly of the Northern Territory enacts as follows:
Part
1 Preliminary
matters
1 Short
title
This Act may be cited as the Assembly Members and Statutory Officers (Remuneration and Other Entitlements) Legislation Amendment Act 2015.
Part
2 Amendment of Assembly Members and Statutory Officers (Remuneration and Other
Entitlements)
Act
2 Act
amended
This Part amends the Assembly Members and Statutory Officers (Remuneration and Other Entitlements) Act.
Section 2
insert (in alphabetical order)
former member, for Part 2, see section 4AA.
Section 4(1A)
omit
5 Sections 4AA and 4AB inserted
After section 4
insert
4AA Tribunal's power in relation to former Assembly member
The Tribunal must also, on the Administrator's request, inquire into, or inquire into and determine, an entitlement for a person (a former member) who, after the commencement of this section, ceases to hold office as an Assembly member; and
(a) who was first elected as an Assembly member at the general election held in 2005 or a later election; and
(b) who is not, after ceasing to be an Assembly member, entitled to receive payment of a pension or superannuation benefit related to the former member's office as an Assembly member.
4AB Circumstances of disentitlement
A former member is not entitled to receive an entitlement mentioned in section 4AA in any of the following circumstances:
(a) the former member has, under section 21(2) of the Northern Territory (Self-Government) Act 1978 (Cth), vacated office as an Assembly member because section 21(1)(c) of that Act applies to the former member;
(b) the former member retires from office as an Assembly member to be a candidate for another seat in the Assembly, or in any other Australian parliament, and is elected to the other seat.
(1) Section 4A(1)
omit
or 4
insert
, 4 or 4AA
(2) Section 4A(2)
omit, insert
(2) However, if inquiries are conducted together under any of the following provisions, the Tribunal need only prepare one report for those inquiries:
(a) section 3A;
(b) section 4;
(c) section 4AA.
Section 5(1)
omit
additional salary of office
insert
an entitlement of a former member
Part
3 Amendment of Assembly Members and Statutory Officers (Remuneration and Other
Entitlements)
Regulations
8 Regulations
amended
This Part amends the Assembly Members and Statutory Officers (Remuneration and Other Entitlements) Regulations.
Regulation 2
repeal
Part 4 Expiry
of
Act
10 Expiry
of Act
This Act expires on the day after it commences.
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