Legislative Assembly (Members’ Staff) Act 1989

ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE EMPLOYMENT OF STAFF
AND THE ENGAGEMENT OF CONSULTANTS AND CONTRACTORS BY MEMBERS 2003*

Instrument No. DI 2003-183

Pursuant to subsections 10(2) and 20(3) of the Legislative Assembly (Members’ Staff) Act 1989 (“the Act”), I REVOKE Determination Number 121 of 2002, signed on 27 June 2002.

Pursuant to subsections 10(2) and 20(3) of the Act I DETERMINE the arrangements and conditions within which Members of the Legislative Assembly (“members”) may respectively employ staff under subsection 10(1) of the Act, or engage consultants or contractors under subsection 20(1) of the Act, as follows:

1.	Members may employ staff or engage consultants or contractors in the period 1 July 2003 to 30 June 2004 inclusive only if the total amounts payable in respect of gross annual salary and payments to consultants and contractors do not exceed the amounts (“the amount”) calculated in accordance with the formula:

  X	
262	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.

2.	Notwithstanding numbered clause 1 above, members may employ staff outside their gross annual salary allocation, 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 1 July 2003.

Position/Office	Gross Annual Salary

Leader of the Opposition	$262,661

Crossbench Member	$111,767

Other Member	$81,587

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  ______3rd_______ day of _______July_______ 2003.

Jon Stanhope
Chief Minister