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South Australia
Parliamentary Remuneration (Basic Salary Determinations)
Amendment Bill 2007
A BILL FOR
An Act to amend the Parliamentary Remuneration
Act 1990.
Contents
Part 1—Preliminary
1 Short
title
2 Amendment provisions
Part 2—Amendment of Parliamentary Remuneration
Act 1990
3 Amendment of section
3—Interpretation
4 Insertion of section
3A
3A Confirmation of basic salary
determination
Schedule 1—Transitional provisions
The Parliament of South Australia enacts as
follows:
This Act may be cited as the Parliamentary Remuneration (Basic Salary
Determinations) Amendment Act 2007.
In this Act, a provision under a heading referring to the amendment of a
specified Act amends the Act so specified.
Part 2—Amendment
of Parliamentary Remuneration
Act 1990
3—Amendment of
section 3—Interpretation
(1) Section 3, definition of basic salary—delete the
definition and substitute:
basic salary means the amount determined, from time to time,
by the Remuneration Tribunal as the annual basic salary payable to a member of
Parliament (provided that the determination has been confirmed by regulation
under section 3A);
(2) Section 3, definition of Commonwealth basic
salary—delete the definition
After section 3 insert:
3A—Confirmation of basic salary
determination
(1) A determination of the Remuneration Tribunal as to the amount of the
annual basic salary is of no force or effect unless and until a regulation is
made confirming the determination.
(2) A regulation referred to in subsection (1) may not come into
operation until the time for disallowance under the Subordinate Legislation
Act 1978 has passed.
(3) For the avoidance of doubt, if a regulation confirming a determination
of the Remuneration Tribunal is disallowed—
(a) the determination will be taken to be of no force or effect;
and
(b) if the disallowed regulation revoked a regulation confirming a
previous determination of the Remuneration Tribunal, that revoked regulation and
the determination of the Remuneration Tribunal that it confirmed are
revived.
Schedule
1—Transitional provisions
The amount that is, immediately before the commencement of this Act,
payable to a member of Parliament as the member's basic salary (within the
meaning of section 3 of the Parliamentary Remuneration
Act 1990) is, on the commencement of this Act, taken to be the basic
salary within the meaning of that section as amended by this Act.