Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) Subject to this section, the provisions of Division 6 of Part III of the Public Service Act relating to the reduction in, or suspension of, remuneration payable to an officer, the Commonwealth Employees (Redeployment and Retirement) Act 1979 and to any law providing for a reduction in the remuneration payable to officers or temporary employees generally, the rate of remuneration of a person appointed or employed under this Act shall, while he continues to be an officer or temporary employee, be not less favourable than that to which, in the opinion of the Board, he would have been entitled in respect of the position that he ordinarily occupied as a Royal Mint employee before his appointment or employment under this Act.
(2) Where, by virtue of the last preceding subsection, the rate of remuneration to which a person is entitled would or might be increased by reason of an increment of salary in repsect of the position that he ordinarily occupied as a Royal Mint employee, his entitlement to the increase is subject to the provisions of the regulations under the Public Service Act, and of the determinations in force under subsection 9(7A) or section 82D of that Act that are applicable to him, relating to increments of salary.
(3) For the purposes of this section, remuneration means salary or pay, and includes such allowances as, in the opinion of the Board, should be regarded as having formed part of the salary or pay of the officer or temporary employee in the position that he ordinarily occupied as a Royal Mint employee.