{"id":"C2004A00078","name":"Remuneration Act 1974","slug":"remuneration-act-1974","collection":"act","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"repealed","isInForce":false,"actNumber":"19 of 1974","makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":2738,"registerId":"commonwealth-C2004A00078-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-03-29","status":"Repealed","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Remuneration Act 1974","content":"REMUNERATION ACT 1974\n\nNo. 19 of 1974\n\nAn Act relating to the Remuneration of Holders of certain Offices.\n\nBE IT ENACTED by the Queen, the Senate and the House of Representatives of Australia, as follows:—\n\nShort title.\n\n1. This Act may be cited as the Remuneration Act 1974.\n\nCommencement.\n\n2. This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.\n\nRemuneration of holders of certain offices.\n\n3. (1) The holder of an office specified in the Schedule shall be paid such remuneration as is determined by the Remuneration Tribunal, but, until that remuneration is so determined, he shall be paid such remuneration as is prescribed by regulations made under the Act by virtue of which that office is constituted.\n\n(2) Subject to the Remuneration Tribunal Act 1973, the holder of an office specified in the Schedule shall be paid such allowances as are prescribed by regulations made under the Act by virtue of which that office is constituted.\n\n(3) The power to make regulations contained in an Act referred to in this section extends to the making of regulations for the purposes of this section.\n\n\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\\_\n\nTHE SCHEDULE Section 3\n\nChairman of the Industries Assistance Commission\n\nCommissioner (other than the Chairman) of the Industries Assistance Commission\n\nAssociate Commissioner of the Industries Assistance Commission\n\nChairman of the Schools Commission\n\nFull-time acting Chairman of the Schools Commission\n\nFull-time member (other than the Chairman or an acting Chairman) of the Schools Commission\n\nPart-time member of the Schools Commission\n\nChairman of the Council of the National Library of Australia.","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"kimi_summary":{"_metrics":{"model":"kimi-k2.5","source":"moonshot-batch","completionTokens":1579},"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The Act maintains its original narrow purpose of establishing the mechanism for remunerating specific statutory office holders via the Remuneration Tribunal, with no evidence of expansion beyond this core function."},"complexity_factors":["Only 3 operative sections plus a Schedule listing 8 specific offices","No interpretation section or defined terms","Simple conditional structure with one primary rule and one fallback provision","Minimal cross-referencing (single reference to Remuneration Tribunal Act 1973)"],"plain_english_summary":"This law sets the pay rules for people holding specific high-level government jobs. Instead of listing exact salaries in the legislation itself, it gives the power to set wages to the **Remuneration Tribunal** (an independent body that decides how much senior public officials should earn).\n\n**How it works:**\n* **Primary rule**: People in the listed jobs get paid whatever the Remuneration Tribunal determines\n* **Backup rule**: If the Tribunal hasn't made a decision yet, they get paid according to regulations made under the Act that created their job\n* **Allowances**: They also receive allowances as set by those regulations (subject to the Remuneration Tribunal Act 1973)\n\n**Who it covers:**\nThe Schedule lists specific offices including the Chair and commissioners of the Industries Assistance Commission, the Chair and members of the Schools Commission, and the Chair of the National Library Council."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/remuneration-act-1974","history":"/api/acts/remuneration-act-1974/history","analysis":"/api/acts/remuneration-act-1974/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/remuneration-act-1974/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/remuneration-act-1974/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/remuneration-act-1974/documents"}}