61Rate of remuneration

##### 61 Rate of remuneration (1) Subject to this section, the provisions of Division 6 of Part III of the Public Service Act relating to the reduction in, or suspension of, remuneration payable to an officer, the Commonwealth Employees (Redeployment and Retirement) Act 1979 and to any law providing for a reduction in the remuneration payable to officers of the Public Service generally, the rate of remuneration of a person appointed or employed under this Part shall, while he or she continues in the Public Service, be not less favourable than that to which, in the opinion of the Public Service Board, he or she would have been entitled in respect of the normal position which he or she occupied as an officer of the Reserves Board immediately before his or her appointment or employment under this Part. (2) Where, by virtue of subsection (1), the remuneration to which a person is entitled would or might be increased by reason of an increment of salary in respect of the normal position which he or she occupied as an officer of the Reserves Board, his or her entitlement to the increase is subject to the provisions of the regulations under the Public Service Act, and of the determinations in force under subsection 9(7A) or section 82D of that Act that are applicable to him or her, relating to increments of salary. (3) In this section, remuneration means salary or pay and includes such allowances as, in the opinion of the Public Service Board, should be regarded as having formed part of the salary or pay of the person in his or her normal position as an officer of the Reserves Board.