(1) There shall be a Tribunal to be known as the Statutory and Other Offices Remuneration Tribunal. (1A) The Tribunal shall have and may exercise and perform the powers, authorities, duties and functions conferred or imposed on the Tribunal by or under this or any other Act.
(1) The Governor may, subject to section 6 (4), appoint a person to be the deputy of the person holding office as the Tribunal.
(1) For the purposes of this Act, there are to be the following 2 assessors:
(a) the Director-General of the Department of Premier and Cabinet, (b) an individual appointed by the Governor on the nomination of the Minister, being:
(i) an individual who has, in the opinion of the Minister, special knowledge relating to salaries payable to persons engaged in commercial, banking, insurance, industrial or other activities at executive or management level, and (ii) is not, except as provided by subsection (1A), in the service of the State. (1A) An individual in the service of the State may be appointed as an assessor under subsection (1) (b) (ii) if the individual is in the service of the State only:
(a) under this Act, or (b) as a member of a board, tribunal, council, committee, authority or similar body.
(1) This section applies to office holders (other than office holders who are judicial officers within the meaning of the ) who are nominated by the Minister by notice in writing to the Tribunal for the purposes of this section. Judicial Officers Act 1986 (2) A determination of the remuneration to be paid to office holders to whom this section applies must fix the remuneration as a single amount without reference to salary or allowances. (3) An office holder to whom this section applies is entitled to be provided with employment benefits (within the meaning of Division 4 of Part 3.1 of the ) if: Public Sector Employment and Management Act 2002
(a) the office holder elects by notice in writing to the Minister to be provided with those employment benefits, and (b) the Minister approves of that election, and (c) the remuneration otherwise payable to the office holder under section 11 is reduced by the cost of those employment benefits (being the cost determined under that Division of similar employment benefits provided to an executive officer under that Division).
(1) This section applies to office holders other than office holders to whom section 11A applies.
(1) In making a determination, the Tribunal may determine:
(a) that any class or kind of remuneration shall be at rates the same as or higher or lower than those at which it was payable immediately before the determination comes into force, (b) that any class or kind of allowance payable immediately before the determination came into force shall:
(i) be payable to office holders or any of them or any class of them who or which are or is not in receipt of an allowance of that class or kind immediately before the determination comes into force, (ii) be not payable to office holders or any of them or any class of them who or which are or is in receipt of an allowance of that class or kind immediately before the determination comes into force, (iii) cease to be payable, or (iv) be replaced by an allowance of some other class or kind, or (c) that, in addition to any class or kind of remuneration payable at the time the determination is made, an allowance of some additional class or kind shall be payable to office holders or any of them or any class of them. (1A) A determination by the Tribunal of the remuneration to be paid to an office holder who is an officer in the Public Service may not be less than the maximum salary, at the time of the determination, for a clerk (grade 12) in the Public Service. (2) The Tribunal may, in a determination, make provision for the application, in such manner as the Tribunal thinks fit, of any wages decision that may be made after the date of the determination, but before the end of the period in which the determination has effect, to the remuneration to be paid to office holders or any of them or any class of them.
(1) Before making a determination, the Tribunal may make such inquiry as the Tribunal thinks necessary.
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(1) Subject to this Act, a determination, the report of which is published in the Gazette under section 19 (1) and which was made under:
(a) (b) section 13—shall come into force, or be deemed to have come into force, on 1 October in the year in which it is made, and (c) section 14, 15 or 15A—shall come into force, or be deemed to have come into force, on the day specified in the determination as the day on which the determination is, or is to be deemed, to come into force. (2) Subject to this Act, a determination shall continue in force until and including 30 September next following the day on which it comes into force. (2A) Subject to this Act, a determination made under section 15A shall continue in force until another determination made under section 13 or 15A comes into force.
(1) Before making a determination, the Tribunal may make such inquiry as the Tribunal thinks necessary.
(1) Subject to this Part, a determination which was made under:
(a) section 24B (Initial determinations)—is to be taken to have come into force on the date that the first appointment is made to the office concerned, and (b) section 24C (Annual determinations)—comes into force, or is to be taken to have come into force, on 1 October in the year in which it is made, and (c) section 24D (Special determinations)—comes into force, or is to be taken to have come into force, on the day specified in the determination as the day on which the determination is, or is to be taken, to come into force.
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