4CSalary to include proficiency allowance

4C Salary to include proficiency allowance

(1) For the purposes of the Act, salary includes the allowance, known as proficiency allowance, payable to persons employed under the Snowy Mountains Hydro‑electric Power Act 1949‑1966.

(2) The condition subject to which payments to a person in accordance with the Act are to include amounts in respect of proficiency allowance is that the person was in receipt of that allowance immediately before the person’s long service leave commences or payment is made in lieu of long service leave, as the case may be.

(3) Where a person is paid salary otherwise than by way of uniform amounts in respect of uniform periods by reason of the fact that the person is not paid proficiency allowance at a uniform rate, an amount equal to the sum of the following amounts is to be the annual salary, for the purposes of the Act, of the person:

(a) an amount equal to the annual salary of the person excluding any allowances that are to be included in the person’s annual salary by virtue of these Regulations;

(b) an amount, in respect of proficiency allowance, equal to the amount of proficiency allowance that would be payable to the person in a year if the person were entitled to be paid that allowance throughout the year at the rate at which it is payable to the person immediately before the person commences long service leave or payment is made in lieu of long service leave as the case may be; and

(c) an amount equal to the sum of the annual amounts payable to the person in respect of each other allowance that is to be included in the salary of the person by virtue of these Regulations.