Remuneration and Allowances Amendment Act 1983 (Cth)

Remuneration and Allowances Amendment Act 1983

No. 128 of 1983

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

PART I—PRELIMINARY

Section

1. Short title

2. Commencement

PART II—AMENDMENTS OF THE REMUNERATION AND ALLOWANCES ACT 1973

3. Principal Act

4. Travelling allowances payable to the Chief Justice and Justices of the High Court

5. Travelling allowances payable to holders of certain offices

6. Schedule 3

PART III—AMENDMENT OF THE MINISTERS OF STATE ACT 1952

7. Principal Act

8. Salaries of Ministers

PART IV—AMENDMENTS OF THE REMUNERATION TRIBUNALS ACT 1973

9. Principal Act

10. Time of making reports and determinations

Remuneration and Allowances Amendment Act 1983

No. 128 of 1983

  

An Act relating to certain remuneration and allowances

[Assented to 22 December 1983]

BE IT ENACTED by the Queen, and the Senate and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:

PART I—PRELIMINARY

Short title

1. This Act may be cited as the Remuneration and Allowances Amendment Act 1983.

Commencement

2. (1) Subject to this section, this Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

(2) Sub-section 5 (2) shall come into operation on the day on which section 15 of the Public Service Acts Amendment Act 1982 comes into operation.

(3) The amendments made by Part II shall be deemed to have taken effect on 6 October 1983.

 

PART II—AMENDMENTS OF THE REMUNERATION AND ALLOWANCES ACT 1973

Principal Act

3. The Remuneration and Allowances Act 19731is in this Part referred to as the Principal Act.

Travelling allowances payable to the Chief Justice and Justices of the High Court

4. Section 13a of the Principal Act is amended—

(a) by omitting from sub-paragraph (4) (a) (i) “$120” and “$85” and substituting “$130” and “$95”, respectively; and

(b) by omitting from sub-paragraph (4) (a) (ii) and from paragraph (4) (b) “$27” and substituting “$29”.

Travelling allowances payable to holders of certain offices

5. (1) Section 13c of the Principal Act is amended—

(a) by omitting from sub-paragraph (4) (a) (i) “$110” and “$80” and substituting “$120” and “$90”, respectively; and

(b) by omitting from sub-paragraph (4) (a) (ii) and from paragraph (4) (b) “$27” and substituting “$29”.

(2) Section 13c of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from sub-section (5) “officers of the First Division of the Australian Public Service” and substituting “the holders of offices referred to in paragraph (a) of the definition of ‘office of Permanent Head’ in sub-section 7 (1) of the Public Service Act 1922”.

Schedule 3

6. Schedule 3 to the Principal Act is repealed and the following Schedule is substituted:

SCHEDULE 3 Section 13

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Office	Rate per annum of salary	Rate per annum of annual allowance
			PART 1	$	$
			Chief Justice of the High Court.......................................................	96,999	5,000
			Justice (other than the Chief Justice) of the High Court.............	88,134	4,500
PART II
Chief Judge of the Federal Court of Australia..............................	81,354	4,500
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory	76,661	4,500
Chief Judge of the Family Court of Australia...............................	74,575	4,500
Chairman of the Commonwealth Grants Commission................	74,575	4,500
Judge (other than the Chief Judge) of the Federal Court of Australia	74,575	4,000

 

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Office	Rate per annum of salary	Rate per annum of annual allowance
			$	$
			Judge (other than the Chief Justice) of the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory.........................................................................................	74,575	4,000
						Senior Judge of the Family Court of Australia	67,274	3,500
Judge (other than the Chief Judge or a Senior Judge) of the Family Court of	63,102	3,500

PART III—AMENDMENT OF THE MINISTERS OF STATE ACT 1952

Principal Act

7. The Ministers of State Act 19522is in this Part referred to as the Principal Act.

Salaries of Ministers

8. Section 5 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting “$575,000” and substituting “$590,000”.

PART IV—AMENDMENTS OF THE REMUNERATION TRIBUNALS ACT 1973

Principal Act

9. The Remuneration Tribunals Act 19733is in this Part referred to as the Principal Act.

Time of making reports and determinations

10. Section 8 of the Principal Act is amended—

(a) by omitting paragraph (2) (a) and substituting the following paragraphs:

“(a) an office came into existence before the commencement of the Remuneration and Allowances Amendment Act 1983 and the Tribunal has not determined the remuneration to be paid in respect of that office;

(aa) an office comes into existence after that commencement; or”;

(b) by omitting from sub-section (2) “to the holder of that office” and substituting “in respect of that office”; and

(c) by omitting from sub-section (3) “to the holder of an office” and substituting “in respect of an office”.

 

NOTES

1. No. 14, 1973, as amended. For previous amendments, see Nos. 203 and 216, 1973; No. 8, 1975; Nos. 83, 170 and 182, 1976; Nos. 81 and 111, 1977; No. 166, 1978; No. 140, 1979; No. 164, 1980; No. 121, 1981; and Nos. 26 and 78, 1982.

2. No. 1, 1952, as amended. For previous amendments, see No. 1, 1956; No. 18, 1959; Nos. 1 and 71, 1964; No. 93, 1966; No. 1, 1967; No. 102, 1968; No. 43, 1971; Nos. 14 and 216, 1973; No. 82, 1978; No. 141, 1979; No. 165, 1980; No. 121, 1981; and No. 78, 1982.

3. No. 215, 1973, as amended. For previous amendments, see No. 80, 1974; No. 96, 1975; Nos. 60 and 178, 1978; Nos. 26, 108, 136 and 155, 1979; No. 160, 1980; Nos. 61, 74 and 176, 1981; No. 78, 1982; and No. 39, 1983.