Queensland Consolidated Acts

RIGHT TO INFORMATION ACT 2009 - SECT 137

137 Remuneration and conditions

(1) The information commissioner must be paid remuneration and other allowances decided by the Governor in Council.

(2) The remuneration paid to the commissioner must not be reduced during the commissioner’s term of office without the commissioner’s written consent.

(3) In relation to matters not provided for by this Act, the commissioner holds office on the terms and conditions decided by the Governor in Council.

(4) The Minister may make a recommendation to the Governor in Council regarding the remuneration, allowances, and terms and conditions of office only with the approval of the parliamentary committee.

(5) For subsection (4) , the parliamentary committee—

(a) must decide to give or not give the approval within 20 business days after receiving the request for the approval from the Minister (the
"original period" ) or within the further period agreed under subsection (6) ; and

(b) is taken to have approved the remuneration, allowances, and terms and conditions of office stated in the request if the committee does not notify the Minister of its decision under paragraph (a) within the period stated in that paragraph.

(6) The Minister and chair of the parliamentary committee may, before the end of the original period, agree to extend the original period by a further period of not more than 20 business days.