Legislative Assembly (Members’ Staff) Act 1989

ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE EMPLOYMENT OF STAFF AND THE ENGAGEMENT OF CONSULTANTS AND CONTRACTORS BY MEMBERS OF THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY

Instrument No.  DI 335 /2001

Pursuant to subsections 10(2) and 13CE(3) of the Legislative Assembly (Members’ Staff) Act 1989, I revoke the arrangements made in Instrument Number 169 of 2001 and substitute the following arrangements in relation to the employment of staff and the engagement of consultants and contractors by members of the Legislative Assembly (“members”).

Members may employ staff or engage consultants and contractors in the period:
•	beginning on the date immediately after the declaration of the poll for the General Election for the ACT Legislative Assembly in 2001;
•	and ending on 30 June 2002, OR, if the member ceases to be a member for whatever reason, the date the member ceases to be a member;
only if the total amounts payable in respect of gross annual salary do not exceed the amounts (“the amount”) calculated in accordance with the formula:

  X	
260	x	WD = Y

Where:

X is the amount allocated for gross annual salary in the Schedule to these arrangements.

WD is the number of working days the member occupies a position/office listed in the Schedule to these arrangements in the period, inclusive; and

Y is the Amount.

Members may employ staff outside these allocations, with the written agreement of the 
Chief Minister, where:
•	a staff member takes a period of paid leave exceeding four continuous weeks;
•	the Chief Minister reasonably considers the leave to be beyond the Member’s control; and
•	the Member will be unable to fulfil his or her parliamentary duties without hiring a replacement.

Schedule.

This Instrument has effect from the date immediately after the declaration of the poll for the General Election for the ACT Legislative Assembly in 2001.

Position/Office	Gross Annual Salary

Leader of the Opposition	$251,770

Crossbench Member	$104,326

Other Member	  $74,836

In this Schedule:

“Leader of the Opposition“ means the leader of the largest party in the Assembly not forming the Government;

“Crossbench Member” means a member who is neither a Minister nor the Speaker, nor a member of the Australian Labor Party nor a member of the Liberal Party of Australia; and

“Other Member” means a member other than a Minister, the Speaker, the Leader of the Opposition or a Crossbench Member.

Dated  ___28th________ day of __October______ 2001.

Gary Humphries

Chief Minister