404Circumstances in which councillors’ annual fees may be reduced or not paid

404 Circumstances in which councillors’ annual fees may be reduced or not paid

404 Circumstances in which councillors’ annual fees may be reduced or not paid

For the purposes of section 254A of the Act, a prescribed circumstance for the non-payment or reduction of a councillor’s annual fee is the circumstance where both of the following conditions are satisfied—

(a) the payment of the annual fee adversely affects the councillor’s entitlement to a pension, benefit or allowance under any legislation of the Commonwealth, a Territory or a State (including New South Wales),

(b) the councillor agrees to the non-payment or reduction.