AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

Remuneration (Amendment) Ordinance 1986
No. 11 of 1986
I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Ordinance under the Seat of Government (Administration) Act 1910. 
Dated 22 May 1986.
	N. M. STEPHEN
	Governor-General
By His Excellency’s Command,
G. SCHOLES
Minister of State for Territories

An Ordinance to amend the Remuneration Ordinance 1976
Short Title
1.  This Ordinance may be cited as the Remuneration (Amendment) Ordinance 1986.1
Commencement
2.  (1)  The provisions of this Ordinance other than section 5 shall come into operation on the day on which this Ordinance is notified in the Gazette.
	(2)	Sub-section 5 (1) shall come into operation on 29 May 1986.
	(3)	Sub-section 5 (2) shall be deemed to have come into operation on 1 July 1985.
Principal Ordinance
3.  In this Ordinance, “Principal Ordinance” means the Remuneration Ordinance 1976.2
Interpretation
4.  Section 2 of the Principal Ordinance is amended—
	(a)	by omitting sub-section (1) and substituting the following sub-section:
“(1)  In this Ordinance, unless the contrary intention appears—
‘prescribed authority’ means a body declared by a law of the Territory to be a prescribed authority for the purposes of this Ordinance;
‘prescribed periods of engagement on authorised business’, in relation to a member of a prescribed authority, means periods, each of which is a period of more than 1 hour in duration during which the member—
	(a)	was engaged in attending a meeting of the authority;
	(b)	was engaged, with the approval of the authority, on business of the authority; or
	(c)	was engaged, with the approval of the authority, in preparation for a meeting of the authority;
‘relevant fee’ means—
	(a)	in relation to a member who is the chairman of a prescribed authority—$169; and
	(b)	in relation to a member of a prescribed authority, other than the chairman—$136.”; and
	(b)	by omitting from paragraph (2) (a) “performing the duties of the chairman” and substituting “(however described) who presides at meetings”.
Fees and allowances payable to members of a prescribed authority
5.  (1)  Section 3 of the Principal Ordinance is amended by omitting sub-sections (3) to (7) (inclusive) and substituting the following sub-sections:
“(3)  Subject to this section, a member of a prescribed authority shall be paid the relevant fee in respect of—
	(a)	each day on which the member is engaged in attending a meeting of the authority, being a meeting the duration of which on that day is not less than 3 hours;
	(b)	each day on which the member is engaged, for a period on that day of not less than 3 hours, with the approval of the authority, on business of the authority; and
	(c)	prescribed periods of engagement on authorized business where the aggregate of those periods is not less than 5 hours.
“(4)  Where a  member of a prescribed authority is paid the relevant fee in respect of a day on which the member was engaged in the manner referred to in paragraph (3) (a), that member is not entitled to be paid the relevant fee—
	(a)	in respect of his or her engagement on that day in the manner referred to in paragraph (3) (b); or
	(b)	in respect of prescribed periods of engagement on authorized business where any of those periods includes any part of that day.
“(5)  Where a member of a prescribed authority is paid the relevant fee in respect of a day on which the member was engaged in the manner referred to in paragraph (3) (b), that member is not entitled to be paid the relevant fee—
	(a)	in respect of his or her engagement on that day in the manner referred to in paragraph (3) (a); or 
	(b)	in respect of prescribed periods of engagement on authorized business where any of those periods includes any part of that day.
“(6)  Where a member of a prescribed authority is paid the relevant fee in respect of prescribed periods of engagement on authorised business, that member is not entitled to be paid the relevant fee in respect of a day on which the member was engaged in the manner referred to in paragraph (3) (a) or (b) if any part of that day was included in any of those periods.
“(7)  Where a member of a prescribed authority is paid the relevant fee in respect of prescribed periods of engagement on authorised business, that member is not entitled to be paid the relevant fee in respect of any other such periods where a part of any of those other periods includes part of any of the first-mentioned periods”.
(2)  Section 3 of the Principal Ordinance is amended by omitting from sub-section (8) “$96” and “$66” and substituting “$110” and “$85”, respectively.
Adjustment of certain fees and allowances
6.  (1)  The Remuneration Ordinance 1976 as amended and in force from time to time shall, during a period specified in the Schedule, be taken to have had effect as if for the amount referred to in the provision of that Ordinance specified in Column 2 of an item in the Schedule there were substituted the amount specified in the column of that item in which that period is specified.
(2)  The Remuneration Ordinance 1976 as amended and in force from time to time shall, during the period commencing on 1 July 1984 and ending at the expiration of 30 June 1985, be taken to have had effect as if for the amounts of $96 and $66 referred to in sub-section 3 (8) there were substituted the amounts of $100 and $80, respectively.
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SCHEDULE			Sub-section 6 (1)
Column 1

Item	Column 2

Provision	Column 3

Period commencing on
6 April 1984 
and ending at
the expiration
of 30 June
1984	Column 4

Period commencing
 on 1 July 
1984 and ending at the expiration of 5 April 1985	Column 5

Period commencing 
on 6 April 
1985 and 
ending at the expiration of 
13 November 
1985	Column 6

Period commencing 
on 14 
November 
1985 and 
ending at the expiration of 
28 May 1986	
		$	$	$	$	
1	paragraph 3 (3) (a) . . . .	142.00	159.00	163.00	169.00	
2	paragraph 3 (3) (b) . . . .	71.00	79.50	81.50	84.50	
3	paragraph 3 (4) (a) . . . .	115.00	128.00	131.00	136.00	
4	paragraph 3 (4) (b) . . . .	57.50	64.00	65.50	68.00	
5	paragraph 3 (5) (a) . . . .	142.00	159.00	163.00	169.00	
6	paragraph 3 (5) (b) . . . .	71.00	79.50	81.50	84.50	
7	paragraph 3 (6) (a) . . . .	115.00	128.00	131.00	136.00	
8	paragraph 3 (6) (b) . . . 	57.50	64.00	65.50	68.00	

NOTES
1.	Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 28 May 1986.
2.	No. 62, 1976 as amended by Nos. 21 and 48, 1978; Nos. 12 and 54, 1980; No. 14, 1982; No. 1, 1983; No. 19, 1984.