8Remuneration, allowances, leave and rights

8 Remuneration, allowances, leave and rights

8 Remuneration, allowances, leave and rights

(1) A full-time commissioner, not being the holder of a judicial office, is entitled to be paid remuneration in accordance with the Statutory and Other Offices Remuneration Act 1975.

(2) A part-time commissioner is entitled to be paid such allowances and such fees as the Minister may from time to time determine in respect of the part-time commissioner.

(2A) The leave which may be granted to a full-time commissioner, not being the holder of a judicial office, shall be as the Minister may from time to time determine in respect of such commissioners.

(3) Where, by or under any Act, provision is made requiring a person who is the holder of an office specified therein to devote the whole of the person’s time to the duties of the office, or prohibiting the person from engaging in employment outside the duties of the office, the provision shall not operate to disqualify the person from holding that office and also the office of a part-time commissioner.

(4) The office of a part-time commissioner shall, for the purposes of any Act, be deemed not to be an office or place of profit under the Crown.

(5) The appointment of a commissioner, not being the holder of a judicial office, shall, subject to this Act, be in accordance with such terms and conditions as may be specified in the instrument of appointment or as may be agreed upon by the Governor and the commissioner.

(6) The Government Sector Employment Act 2013 does not apply to or in respect of the appointment of a commissioner by the Governor and a person so appointed is not, in the person’s capacity as a commissioner, subject to that Act while the person holds office as a commissioner.

(7) Schedule 1 has effect with respect to the preservation of rights of certain persons on their appointment as full-time commissioners.

s 8: Am 1976 No 4, Sch 5. Subst 1981 No 1, Sch 1 (6). Am 1987 No 48, Sch 30; 2015 No 15, Sch 3.39 [1].