Statutory Salaries and Fees Act 1947 (SA)

South Australia

Statutory Salaries and Fees Act 1947

An Act relating to salaries, fees and other remuneration payable to members of statutory bodies.

Contents

1            Short title

2            Interpretation

3            Power to vary remuneration

4            Payment of altered remuneration

Legislative history

The Parliament of South Australia enacts as follows:

1—Short title

This Act may be cited as the Statutory Salaries and Fees Act 1947.

2—Interpretation

In this Act—

board means any body of persons corporate or uncorporate which is—

(a)established or appointed by or pursuant to any Act, whether passed before or after the passing of this Act; and

(b)charged by any enactment with the duty of administering statutory provisions, or of conducting inquiries

but does not include a company, friendly society, building society, industrial and provident society, or other body formed pursuant to general statutory provisions providing for the formation of such bodies;

remuneration includes salary, fees and remuneration of any kind, and any amount fixed by law as the maximum amount of the salary, fees or other remuneration payable to any or all of the members of a board.

3—Power to vary remuneration

1. Where any Act, whether passed before or after the commencement of this Act, prescribes the remuneration of the members of a board, but makes no provision for varying that remuneration, the Governor may make regulations under this Act with respect to that remuneration, and the remuneration as prescribed by those regulations shall be deemed to be the remuneration prescribed by the first-mentioned Act.

2. Any regulation made under this Act—

   (a)may alter the amount, rate, or mode of computing any remuneration, and the intervals at which it is payable;

   (b)may prescribe fees in lieu of salary, or salary in lieu of fees;

   (c)may prescribe or alter the conditions on which any remuneration is payable;

   (d)may apply to the remuneration prescribed by any one or more Acts.

4—Payment of altered remuneration

1. Any remuneration altered by regulation under this Act shall be paid by the same persons and from the same fund as before the alteration.

2. This Act, without further appropriation, shall be sufficient authority to pay from the General Revenue of the State or from any other funds, any money which is properly payable out of the General Revenue of the State and is required for the purpose of giving effect to regulations under this Act.

Legislative history

Notes

•For further information relating to the Act and subordinate legislation made under the Act see the Index of South Australian Statutes or of Act

The Statutory Salaries and Fees Act 1947 was repealed by s 91 of the Statutes Amendment and Repeal (Simplify) Act 2019 on 3.10.2019.

Principal Act

Year	No	Title	Assent	Commencement
1947	42	Statutory Salaries and Fees Act 1947	11.12.1947	11.12.1947