REMUNERATION TRIBUNAL
Explanatory Statement: Determination 2012/23
Remuneration and Allowances for Holders of Public Office
1. The Remuneration Tribunal has inquired into and determined the remuneration and significantly related matters for certain office holders, as it is empowered to do by the Remuneration Tribunal Act 1973.
2. In making this determination the Tribunal has informed itself through consultation in accordance with established practice.
3. Any retrospective application of this determination is in accordance with subsection 12(2) of the Legislative Instruments Act 2003 as it does not affect the rights of a person (other than the Commonwealth or an authority of the Commonwealth) to that person’s disadvantage, nor does it impose any liability on such a person.
4. This Determination is compatible with the human rights or freedoms recognised or declared in the international instruments listed in section 3 of the Human Rights (Parliamentary Scrutiny) Act 2011. This Determination does not engage any of the applicable rights or freedoms.
PART 1 – FULL-TIME OFFICES
5. Clause 1.1 specifies the Principal Determination (Number 12 of 2012 as amended) for the purposes of Part 1 of the Determination.
6. Clause 1.2 extends the additional loading for the current Chief Executive Officer, Health Workforce Australia, until 26 January 2015.
7. Clause 1.3 sets remuneration for the new office of Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, Chief Executive Officer.
8. Clause 1.4 and 1.5 amends the current remuneration and sets a revised personal loading for the Chief Executive Officer, Professor Debora Picone AM. The loading ceases at close of business 5 March 2013.
9. Clause 1.6 amends the current base salary of the office of Chief Executive Officer of the National Health Performance Authority. The total remuneration remains unchanged.
10. Clause 1.7 removes Clause 2.2.18 which is no longer applicable.
11. Clauses 1.8 to 1.14 set remuneration and additional loadings for the Deputy Chair and Commissioners of the Productivity Commission and also sets accommodation and reunion travel allowances for Mr Robert Fitzgerald, with effect on and from 1 December 2012. These officers were formerly in the PEO Structure.
PART 2 – PART-TIME OFFICES
12. Clause 2.1 specifies the Principal Determination (Number 13 of 2012 as amended) for the purposes of Part 2 of the Determination.
13. Clauses 2.2 to 2.5 set provisions for a new category of specified offices and set remuneration for the new office of Independent Expert Scientific Committee (IESC) on Coal Seam Gas and Large Coal Mining Development – Chair and member with effect on and from 9 November 2012.
Authority: Subsections 7(3) and 7(4) of
the Remuneration Tribunal Act 1973.