7Allowance payable to Solicitor‑General

7 Allowance payable to Solicitor‑General

(1) There is payable to a person: (a) who holds the office of Solicitor‑General of the Commonwealth; (b) whose principal place of residence was, at the time when the person’s appointment, or first appointment, as the case may be, to that office took effect, at a place outside, but not in a part of New South Wales that is adjacent to or in the vicinity of, the Australian Capital Territory; and (c) whose headquarters for the purposes of payment of travelling allowance are in the Australian Capital Territory and who, in accordance with a requirement made upon the appointment of the person to that office, has established the person’s principal place of residence in the Australian Capital Territory or in a part of New South Wales that is adjacent to or in the vicinity of the Australian Capital Territory; an allowance at such rate as is determined by the Remuneration Tribunal for the period in which the person maintains the principal place of residence established as mentioned in paragraph (c). (2) An allowance payable by virtue of subsection (1) shall be paid out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund, which is appropriated accordingly.