Parliamentary Remuneration Amendment (Miscellaneous Offices) Regulation 2007 (NSW)

2007 No 555

New South Wales

Parliamentary Remuneration

Amendment (Miscellaneous Offices)

Regulation 2007

under the

Parliamentary Remuneration Act 1989

His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, has made the following Regulation under the Parliamentary Remuneration Act 1989.

MORRIS IEMMA, M.P.,

Premier

Explanatory note
Section 6 of the Parliamentary Remuneration Act 1989 provides for holders of certain offices (recognised office holders) specified in Schedule 1 to that Act to receive a salary and expense allowance in addition to the basic salary to which they are entitled as Members of Parliament. The additional salary and expense allowance to be received is expressed as a percentage of the basic salary.
The object of this Regulation is to amend Schedule 1 to the Parliamentary Remuneration Act

1989 as follows:

(a)

to include the following persons as recognised office holders:

(i)	the Parliamentary Secretary to the Premier (Leader of the House) in the Legislative Assembly,
(ii)	the Assistant President in the Legislative Council,
(iii)	the Chair of the Standing Committee on Broadband in Rural and Regional Communities of the Legislative Assembly,

(b)

to rename the office of Chair of Committees in the Legislative Council as the Deputy President and Chair of Committees in the Legislative Council and increase the office’s additional salary and expense allowances,

(c)

to remove the reference to the Chair of the Standing Committee on Natural Resource Management and replace it with a reference to the Chair of the Standing Committee on Natural Resource Management (Climate Change) of the Legislative Assembly.

This Regulation is made under the Parliamentary Remuneration Act 1989, including section

6 (4) and section 21 (the general regulation-making power).

Published in Gazette No 169 of 16 November 2007, page 8511	Page 1
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Clause 1	Regulation 2007

Parliamentary Remuneration Amendment

(Miscellaneous Offices) Regulation 2007

under the

Parliamentary Remuneration Act 1989

1      Name of Regulation

This Regulation is the Parliamentary Remuneration Amendment
(Miscellaneous Offices) Regulation 2007.

2 Amendment of Parliamentary Remuneration Act 1989 No 160

The Parliamentary Remuneration Act 1989 is amended as set out in
Schedule 1.

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Regulation 2007
Amendments	Schedule 1
Schedule 1	Amendments

(Clause 2)

[1]      Schedule 1 Additional salaries and expense allowances

Insert after the matter relating to the Deputy Speaker of the Legislative
Assembly in Part 2:

Parliamentary Secretary to the Premier (Leader of 30% 20%

the House) in the Legislative Assembly

[2]      Schedule 1, Part 2

Omit the matter relating to the Chair of Committees in the Legislative Council.
Insert instead:

Deputy President and Chair of Committees in the 30% 20%

Legislative Council

[3]      Schedule 1, Part 2

Insert after the matter relating to the Leader of the Opposition in the
Legislative Council:

Assistant President in the Legislative Council 20% 14%

[4]      Schedule 1, Part 2

Omit “Chair of the Standing Committee on Natural Resource Management”.

Insert instead “Chair of the Standing Committee on Natural Resource
Management (Climate Change) of the Legislative Assembly”.

[5]      Schedule 1, Part 2

Insert at the end of the Schedule:

Chair of the Standing Committee on Broadband in 7% 7%

Rural and Regional Communities of the Legislative
Assembly

BY AUTHORITY