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This determination sets the pay rates for part-time Commonwealth public offices—board members, committee chairs and tribunal members—specifying annual retainers or daily fees for listed roles and rules for minimum hours, extra loadings, travel tiers, and salary packaging options.
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REMUNERATION TRIBUNAL
Determination 2005/05:
Remuneration and Allowances for Holders of Part-time Public Office
As amended.
Made under sub-sections 7(3) and 7(4) of the Remuneration Tribunal Act 1973.
Consolidated as at 20 June 2006 and incorporates amending determinations up to and including 2006/11 – Remuneration and Allowances for Holders of Public Office and Members of Parliament. Prepared by the Remuneration Tribunal Secretariat.
This Determination comprises:
PART 1 – GENERAL
1.1 Authority: The Remuneration Tribunal has made this Determination in accordance with subsections 7(3) and 7(4) of the Remuneration Tribunal Act 1973.
1.2 Effective Date: This Determination takes effect on and from 1 July 2005.
1.3 Effect on Earlier Determinations: This Determination supersedes and revokes in full Determination number 12 of 2004 (Remuneration and Allowances for Holders of Part-time Public Office).
1.4 Footnotes: To avoid doubt, footnotes to tables in this Determination are part of the Determination.
1.5 Definitions: In this Determination, unless the sense otherwise requires:
1.5.1 'authority' is a reference to a commission, board, committee, tribunal or other body or office;
1.5.2 'business of the authority' means any business of the authority conducted by an office-holder with the approval of the authority, other than attendance at a formal meeting and the preparation time for that meeting, except as specified in Clause 2.5;
1.5.3 ‘office-holder’ means the holder of a part-time public office;
1.5.4 ‘public office’ has the same meaning as in the Remuneration Tribunal Act 1973;
1.5.5 ‘p/a’ in the Schedules to this Determination means the specified fee is payable ‘per annum’, and ‘p/d’ means the specified fee is payable ‘per diem’.
PART 2 – FEES
2.1 Specified Offices: The fees set out in Schedules A, C, D and E apply to the holders of the public offices specified in those schedules.
2.2 Remuneration Packaging: An agency may provide access to remuneration packaging to office-holders covered by this Determination. An office-holder may elect either to take benefits in lieu of her or his fee or to take a combination of her or his fee and benefits.
2.2.1 Any election made in accordance with clause 2.2 must:
(a) be in accordance with agency policies and procedures on remuneration packaging applicable to such offices;
(b) be consistent with relevant taxation laws and rulings or guidelines applicable to remuneration packaging schemes issued by the Australian Taxation Office; and
(c) not result in any cost to the Commonwealth (including in relation to any fringe benefits taxation) additional to the cost which would be incurred if benefits able to be taken as fees were taken as fees.
2.3 Offices not specified: An office-holder in respect of whom a fee has not otherwise been specified in this Determination shall, subject to the conditions outlined in clauses 2.5 to 2.8 of this Determination, be paid a daily fee as set out in Table 2A below.
TABLE 2A: PUBLIC OFFICES NOT SPECIFIED IN THIS DETERMINATION – DAILY FEES WITH EFFECT FROM 1.7.05
<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width:440.2pt; margin-top:0pt; margin-left:35.33pt; margin-bottom:0pt; border:0.75pt solid #000000; border-collapse:collapse"><tbody><tr style="height:16.4pt"><td rowspan="2" style="width:122.1pt; border-right:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.03pt; padding-left:5.03pt; vertical-align:middle; background-color:#d9d9d9"><p style="margin-bottom:6pt; text-align:center"><span style="font-weight:bold">Office</span></p><p style="margin-top:6pt; text-align:center"><span style="font-style:italic"></span></p></td><td style="width:90.2pt; border-right:0.75pt solid #000000; border-left:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.03pt; padding-left:5.03pt; vertical-align:middle; background-color:#d9d9d9"><p style="text-align:center"><span style="font-weight:bold">Category 1</span></p></td><td style="width:95.5pt; border-right:0.75pt solid #000000; border-left:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.03pt; padding-left:5.03pt; vertical-align:middle; background-color:#d9d9d9"><p style="text-align:center"><span style="font-weight:bold">Category 2</span></p></td><td style="width:88.45pt; border-left:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.03pt; padding-left:5.03pt; vertical-align:middle; background-color:#d9d9d9"><p style="text-align:center"><span style="font-weight:bold">Category 3</span></p></td></tr><tr style="height:16.5pt"><td style="width:90.2pt; border:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.03pt; padding-left:5.03pt; vertical-align:middle; background-color:#d9d9d9"><p style="text-align:center"><span style="font-style:italic">$ per diem</span></p></td><td style="width:95.5pt; border:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.03pt; padding-left:5.03pt; vertical-align:middle; background-color:#d9d9d9"><p style="text-align:center"><span style="font-style:italic">$ per diem</span></p></td><td style="width:88.45pt; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-left:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.03pt; padding-left:5.03pt; vertical-align:middle; background-color:#d9d9d9"><p style="text-align:center"><span style="font-style:italic">$ per diem</span></p></td></tr><tr style="height:16pt"><td style="width:122.1pt; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-right:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.03pt; padding-left:5.03pt; vertical-align:middle"><p style="text-align:center"><span style="font-weight:bold">Chairperson</span></p></td><td style="width:90.2pt; border:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.03pt; padding-left:5.03pt; vertical-align:middle"><p style="text-align:center"><span>320</span></p></td><td style="width:95.5pt; border:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.03pt; padding-left:5.03pt; vertical-align:middle"><p style="text-align:center"><span>434</span></p></td><td style="width:88.45pt; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-left:0.75pt solid #000000; border-bottom:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.03pt; padding-left:5.03pt; vertical-align:middle"><p style="text-align:center"><span>524</span></p></td></tr><tr style="height:15.95pt"><td style="width:122.1pt; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-right:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.03pt; padding-left:5.03pt; vertical-align:middle"><p style="text-align:center"><span style="font-weight:bold">Member</span></p></td><td style="width:90.2pt; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-right:0.75pt solid #000000; border-left:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.03pt; padding-left:5.03pt; vertical-align:middle"><p style="text-align:center"><span>240</span></p></td><td style="width:95.5pt; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-right:0.75pt solid #000000; border-left:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.03pt; padding-left:5.03pt; vertical-align:middle"><p style="text-align:center"><span>320</span></p></td><td style="width:88.45pt; border-top:0.75pt solid #000000; border-left:0.75pt solid #000000; padding-right:5.03pt; padding-left:5.03pt; vertical-align:middle"><p style="text-align:center"><span>467</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table>
2.3.1 Minister decides category: The category of fee to be paid shall be determined by the Minister within whose portfolio responsibility the public office is located in accordance with the nature and function of the office.
2.3.2 Official Travel: An office-holder in respect of whom a fee has been determined in accord with this clause shall be entitled to travelling allowance for travel on official business within Australia at the Tier 2 rate, in accordance with Part 3 of this Determination.
Conditions of payment of daily fees
2.4 Application: The provisions of clauses 2.5 to 2.8 apply to office-holders covered by clause 2.3 and by Schedules A and C, unless otherwise specified. Clauses 2.5 to 2.8 do not apply to Schedules D and E.
2.5 Daily fee - preparation for meetings: The daily fee for a formal meeting includes a component to cover normal preparation time, but where the chairperson of the authority considers the period of preparation time involved is so unusual as to warrant recognition that period may be included as business of the authority.
2.6 Daily fee – minimum hours: An office-holder shall be paid the daily fee in respect of such period, not less than three hours, on any one day on which he or she attends a formal meeting of the authority, and/or is engaged on business of the authority other than normal preparation time for a meeting, subject to the following conditions.
2.6.1 The chairperson, or nominated presiding officer, shall in each case certify whether the period of three hours has elapsed and in so certifying may have regard to reasonable travelling time incurred by an office holder away from the metropolitan area of the capital city or the environs of the town in which he or she lives.
2.6.2 The maximum payment in respect of any one day shall be the appropriate daily fee.
2.7 Part-payment of daily fee – meeting days: An office-holder may be paid in respect of formal meetings of less than three hours subject to the following conditions:
(a) for formal meetings aggregating less than two hours, an amount equal to two-fifths of a daily fee;
(b) for formal meetings, or formal meetings and business of the authority on the day of a formal meeting, of two hours or more, but less than three hours on any one day, an amount equal to three-fifths of a daily fee;
(c) the maximum payment in respect of any one day shall be the appropriate daily fee;
(d) eligibility for each payment shall be certified by the chairperson or nominated presiding officer and in so certifying the chairperson may have regard to reasonable travelling time in accordance with 2.6.1; and
(e) preparation time shall only be included in accordance with 2.5.
2.8 Aggregation of hours for daily fee - non-meeting days: An office-holder may also be paid a daily fee in respect of aggregates of periods of business of the authority of less than three hours, subject to the following conditions:
(a) individual periods of business must be on other than formal meeting days and each period must be for a minimum of one hour;
(b) to attract payment of a daily fee, aggregated periods shall total at least five hours;
(c) the maximum payment in respect of any one day shall be the appropriate daily fee;
(d) eligibility for each payment shall be certified by the chairperson and in so certifying the chairperson may have regard to reasonable travelling time in accordance with 2.6.1; and
(e) preparation time shall only be included in accordance with 2.5.
2.9 Daily Fee – SCT: The following sub-clauses apply, (and clauses 2.5 to 2.8 do not apply) in relation to a person who holds an office as a member of the Superannuation Complaints Tribunal on a part-time basis.
2.9.1 A daily fee is payable once such a person has undertaken official business of five hours duration in aggregate, regardless of the day or days on which that work is done.
2.9.2 The Chairperson of the Superannuation Complaints Tribunal must certify the nature, reasonableness and duration of official business undertaken prior to any payment of fees to such a person.
2.9.3 Official business may include a hearing, preparation for a hearing, decision writing, checking and travel time other than for travel between the person’s home and principal place of work.
2.9.4 The maximum payment in respect of any one day shall be the appropriate daily fee.
PART 3 - CONDITIONS OF OFFICIAL TRAVEL
3.1 Official Travel Determination: The provisions of Determination 2004/03 as amended - Official Travel by Office Holders – apply to offices covered by this Determination, subject to any exclusions or limitations in this Determination. In establishing entitlements, the Travel Tier identified in this Determination for an office will apply under Determination 2004/03.
SCHEDULE A - FEES AND ALLOWANCES FOR SPECIFIED OFFICES
A1. Fees: The fees set out in Table A1A below are payable in accordance with this Determination to the holders of the relevant office.
A2. Audit Committee fees: Where the symbol ‘#’ appears against an Office in Table A1A below, subclause A2.1 applies.
A2.1 A member who is the Chair of the Audit Committee will receive an additional $11,360 per annum. A member who is a member of the Audit Committee will receive an additional $5,680 per annum.
TABLE A1A – SPECIFIED OFFICES – FEES AND TRAVEL TIER
(Rates are effective from 1 July 2005 unless otherwise specified)
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