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Remuneration Tribunal (Remuneration and Allowances for Holders of Part-time Public Office) Determination 2025
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23 Special provisions for certain offices
The provisions in column 2 of the following table (Table 4B) apply for the purposes of paragraph 22(c).
<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width:100%; border-collapse:collapse"><thead><tr><td colspan="3" style="border-top:1.5pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="TableHeading" style="page-break-inside:avoid"><span>Table 4B—Special provisions for certain offices</span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="width:9.5%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:1.5pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="TableHeading" style="page-break-inside:avoid"><span>Item</span></p></td><td style="width:28.72%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:1.5pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="TableHeading" style="page-break-inside:avoid"><span>Column 1</span></p><p class="TableHeading" style="page-break-inside:avoid"><span>Office</span></p></td><td style="width:61.78%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:1.5pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt; vertical-align:top"><p class="TableHeading" style="page-break-inside:avoid"><span>Column 2</span></p><p class="TableHeading" style="page-break-inside:avoid"><span>Special provision</span></p></td></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td style="width:9.5%; border-top:1.5pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt"><p class="Tabletext"><span>1</span></p></td><td style="width:28.72%; border-top:1.5pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt"><p class="Tabletext"><span>Professional Services Review—Determining Authority</span></p></td><td style="width:61.78%; border-top:1.5pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt"><p class="Tabletext"><span>The following are to be paid in accordance with Part</span><span> </span><span>6 instead of this Part:</span></p><p class="Tablea"><span>(a) the Chair;</span></p><p class="Tablea"><span>(b) the non</span><span>‑</span><span>practitioner member mentioned in paragraph</span><span> </span><span>106ZPA(1)(b) of the </span><span style="font-style:italic">Health Insurance Act 1973</span><span>;</span></p><p class="Tablea"><span>(c) the member appointed, as mentioned in paragraph</span><span> </span><span>106ZPA(1)(c) of that Act, as a medical practitioner (within the meaning of that Act). To avoid doubt, this does not include a member who is a medical practitioner but whose appointment relates to another kind of practitioner (within the meaning of Part</span><span> </span><span>VAA of that Act).</span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="width:9.5%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt"><p class="Tabletext"><span>2</span></p></td><td style="width:28.72%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt"><p class="Tabletext"><span>Inspector</span><span>‑</span><span>General of Biosecurity</span></p></td><td style="width:61.78%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt"><p class="Tabletext"><span>The daily fee is capped at 175 days per year.</span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="width:9.5%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt"><p class="Tabletext"><span>3</span></p></td><td style="width:28.72%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt"><p class="Tabletext"><span>Specialist Medical Review Council</span></p></td><td style="width:61.78%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt"><p class="Tabletext"><span>In addition to the relevant daily fee, the Convenor is to receive a retainer of $33,440 per year. A councillor who is appointed as a presiding councillor under subsection</span><span> </span><span>196ZK(3) of the </span><span style="font-style:italic">Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986</span><span> is to receive a retainer of $22,560 per year in addition to the relevant daily fee.</span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="width:9.5%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt"><p class="Tabletext"><span>4</span></p></td><td style="width:28.72%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt"><p class="Tabletext"><span>Gene Technology Committees</span></p></td><td style="width:61.78%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt"><p class="Tabletext"><span>An Expert Advisor appointed to either the Gene Technology Technical Advisory Committee or the Gene Technology Ethics and Community Consultative Committee is to receive $995 per day and is entitled to Tier 1 Travel.</span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="width:9.5%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt"><p class="Tabletext"><span>5</span></p></td><td style="width:28.72%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt"><p class="Tabletext"><span>Repatriation Medical Authority</span></p></td><td style="width:61.78%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt"><p class="Tabletext"><span>In addition to the relevant daily fee, retainers of $66,750 per year for the Chair and $44,510 per year for Members are payable.</span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="width:9.5%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt"><p class="Tabletext"><span>6</span></p></td><td style="width:28.72%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt"><p class="Tabletext"><span>Selection Committees for Research and Development Corporations</span></p></td><td style="width:61.78%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt"><p class="Tabletext"><span>This entry refers to Selection Committees established under Part</span><span> </span><span>4 of the </span><span style="font-style:italic">Primary Industries Research and Development Act 1989</span><span>.</span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="width:9.5%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt"><p class="Tabletext"><span>7</span></p></td><td style="width:28.72%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt"><p class="Tabletext"><span>Committees of Research and Development Corporations</span></p></td><td style="width:61.78%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt"><p class="Tabletext"><span>This entry refers to committees established under Part</span><span> </span><span>2 of the </span><span style="font-style:italic">Primary Industries Research and Development Act 1989</span><span>.</span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="width:9.5%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt"><p class="Tabletext"><span>8</span></p></td><td style="width:28.72%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt"><p class="Tabletext"><span>Editorial Advisory Board</span></p></td><td style="width:61.78%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt"><p class="Tabletext"><span>Subject to a minimum payment of $3,879 per year.</span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="width:9.5%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt"><p class="Tabletext"><span>9</span></p></td><td style="width:28.72%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt"><p class="Tabletext"><span>Ministerial Advisory Committee on Blood Borne Viruses and Sexually Transmissible Infections (</span><span style="font-weight:bold; font-style:italic">MACBBVSTI</span><span>)</span></p></td><td style="width:61.78%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt"><p class="Tabletext"><span>Members appointed as organisational representatives, such as Federal Parliamentarians and State or Territory officials, do not receive the travel allowance determined for MACBBVSTI Members if they have an entitlement to travel allowance from a different source.</span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="width:9.5%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt"><p class="Tabletext"><span>10</span></p></td><td style="width:28.72%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt"><p class="Tabletext"><span>Examiner, Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission</span></p></td><td style="width:61.78%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt"><p class="Tabletext"><span>The maximum amount an Examiner who is paid by way of daily fees can be paid in one year is $280,140.</span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="width:9.5%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt"><p class="Tabletext"><span>11</span></p></td><td style="width:28.72%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt"><p class="Tabletext"><span>Australian Competition and Consumer Commission—Associate Member (Agriculture)</span></p></td><td style="width:61.78%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt"><p class="Tabletext"><span>The office holder is to receive an annual fee of $302,430 while working the equivalent of 3 days per week, in accordance with Part</span><span> </span><span>3, instead of the amount in column 4 of Table 4A.</span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="width:9.5%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt"><p class="Tabletext"><span>12</span></p></td><td style="width:28.72%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt"><p class="Tabletext"><span>Fair Work Commission—Expert Panel Member</span></p></td><td style="width:61.78%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt"><p class="Tabletext"><span>Fees for all official business are to be calculated in accordance with subsection</span><span> </span><span>21(3). Subsection</span><span> </span><span>21(1) does not apply.</span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="width:9.5%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt"><p class="Tabletext"><span>13</span></p></td><td style="width:28.72%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt"><p class="Tabletext"><span>Classification Review Board</span></p></td><td style="width:61.78%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt"><p class="Tabletext"><span>When the Deputy Convenor acts as Convenor, the Deputy Convenor is entitled to the remuneration and other conditions determined for the Convenor.</span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="width:9.5%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt"><p class="Tabletext"><span>14</span></p></td><td style="width:28.72%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt"><p class="Tabletext"><span>Defence Force Advocate</span></p></td><td style="width:61.78%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt"><p class="Tabletext"><span>The daily fee specified in Table 4A is payable when the Advocate undertakes tasks that do not require the advocacy and legal advice skills of a Senior Counsel. Fees payable for advocacy and legal advice that the Department certifies as within the Advocate’s functions under section</span><span> </span><span>58T of the </span><span style="font-style:italic">Defence Act 1903</span><span>, and requiring the skills of a Senior Counsel or a King’s Counsel, is to be at the rate of $3,500 per day.</span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="width:9.5%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt"><p class="Tabletext"><span>15</span></p></td><td style="width:28.72%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt"><p class="Tabletext"><span>Defence Force Advocate</span></p></td><td style="width:61.78%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt"><p class="Tabletext"><span>Section</span><span> </span><span>21 does not apply. Daily fees (including daily fees affected by item</span><span> </span><span>14 of this table) are to be calculated pro rata on the basis of a 6</span><span>‑</span><span>hour working day.</span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="width:9.5%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt"><p class="Tabletext"><span>16</span></p></td><td style="width:28.72%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt"><p class="Tabletext"><span>Torres Strait Regional Authority</span></p></td><td style="width:61.78%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt"><p class="Tabletext"><span>Section</span><span> </span><span>21 does not apply. Office holders are to be paid in accordance with the following conditions:</span></p><p class="Tablea"><span>(a) for formal meetings or authority business aggregating 6 hours or more on any one day—100% of the daily fee;</span></p><p class="Tablea"><span>(b) for formal meetings or authority business aggregating 3 hours or more but less than 6 hours on any one day—60% of the daily fee;</span></p><p class="Tablea"><span>(c) for formal meetings or authority business aggregating less than 3 hours on any one day—40% of the daily fee.</span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="width:9.5%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt"><p class="Tabletext"><span>17</span></p></td><td style="width:28.72%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt"><p class="Tabletext"><span>Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Commission</span></p></td><td style="width:61.78%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt"><p class="Tabletext"><span>Where a member has an entitlement to Tier 1 travel by virtue of a full</span><span>‑</span><span>time appointment, that entitlement also applies to this office.</span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="width:9.5%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt"><p class="Tabletext"><span>18</span></p></td><td style="width:28.72%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt"><p class="Tabletext"><span>Inspector</span><span>‑</span><span>General of Animal Welfare and Live Animal Exports</span></p></td><td style="width:61.78%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt"><p class="Tabletext"><span>The daily fee is capped at 120 days per year.</span></p></td></tr><tr><td style="width:9.5%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:1.5pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt"><p class="Tabletext"><span>19</span></p></td><td style="width:28.72%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:1.5pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt"><p class="Tabletext"><span>National Soils Advocate</span></p></td><td style="width:61.78%; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:1.5pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.4pt; padding-left:5.4pt"><p class="Tabletext"><span>The daily fee is capped at 100 days per year.</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table>