Parliamentary Remuneration (Basic Salary) Amendment Act 2011 (SA)

South Australia

Parliamentary Remuneration (Basic Salary) Amendment Act 2011

An Act to amend the Parliamentary Remuneration Act 1990.

The Parliament of South Australia enacts as follows:

Part 1Preliminary1Short title

This Act may be cited as the Parliamentary Remuneration (Basic Salary) Amendment Act 2011.

2Amendment provisions

In this Act, a provision under a heading referring to the amendment of a specified Act amends the Act so specified.

Part 2Amendment of Parliamentary Remuneration Act 19903Amendment of section 3 – Interpretation

Section 3, definition of basic salary—delete the definition and substitute:

basic salary means annual salary at a rate equal to—

1. (a)

   up to and including 30 June 2012—the amount that was, immediately before the commencement of the Parliamentary Remuneration (Basic Salary) Amendment Act 2011, payable to a member of Parliament as the member's basic salary; and

2. (b)

   after 30 June 2012—$2 000 less than the rate from time to time of Commonwealth basic salary;