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PART 3 – ALLOWANCES

Accommodation Allowance: The Office Holders listed in Column 1 of Table 3A will be eligible to receive an accommodation allowance (subject to expenditure) as shown in Column 3 of Table 3A whilst they occupy the office shown in Column 2. This amount is to assist the Office Holder in meeting settling-in and commercial rental accommodation costs (including one-off utility connection costs) in the office location:

(a) while they also continue to have a property other than in the office location, as their principal place of residence; and

(b) it will not be paid for such periods that they live in premises owned by them at the office location.

An Office Holder will not be eligible to access travel allowance entitlements in the home locality or the office locality whilst they remain eligible to receive the accommodation allowance. However, where in terms of the ongoing arrangement it would clearly be more cost effective for the agency to provide travel allowance entitlements in the office locality, the agency should decide at the earliest practical opportunity to pay travel allowance rather than the accommodation allowance.

Where the commercial accommodation does not include cooking facilities, the cost of meals may form part of the payment, within the accommodation cap set for an Office Holder.

TABLE 3A – ACCOMMODATION ALLOWANCES

Column 1Office Holder	Column 2Office	Column 3Allowance (pa)
Mr Bruce Gosper	Chief Executive Officer, Austrade	$40,000
Mr Paul Jevtovic	Chief Executive Officer, Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre	$40,000
Mr Timothy Wilson	Human Rights Commissioner, Australian Human Rights Commission	$40,000
Mr Nick Ryan	Chief Executive Officer, Australian Aged Care Quality Agency	$40,000
Mr Michael Griffin	Integrity Commissioner, Australian Commission for Law Enforcement Integrity	$34,500
Mr Ben McDevitt	Chief Executive Officer, Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority	$34,500
Ms Nicole Rose	Chief Executive Officer, CrimTrac	$34,500
The Hon. Margaret StoneEffective 24.8.2015 ref Det 2015/13

Who can use reunion travel? The allowance provided in Clause 3.2 and specified in Table 3B is intended to facilitate personal travel by the office holders identified in that Table. However, where the office holder certifies that the workload and responsibilities of the office prevents him or her from travelling to the principal place of residence for reunion purposes, reunion travel by the office holder’s partner and/or a child or children of the office holder or his or her partner, whose normal place of residence is the office holder’s principal place of residence, can be funded within the financial limits of the allowance. Travel by a person other than the office holder must be at economy class, and only for direct travel between the office holder’s principal place of residence and office location.

Column 1Office Holder	Column 2Office	Column 3Allowance (pa)
Mr Ben McDevitt	Chief Executive Officer, Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority	$18,690
Mr Barry Haase	Administrator of Christmas Island and Cocos (Keeling) Islands	$17,000
Mr Timothy Wilson	Human Rights Commissioner, Australian Human Rights Commission	$16,800
Mr Paul Jevtovic	Chief Executive Officer, Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre	$14,736
The Hon. Margaret StoneEffective 24.8.2015 ref Det 2015/13	Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security	$14,376
Mr Michael Griffin	Integrity Commissioner, Australian Commission for Law Enforcement Integrity	$13,896
Ms C Munro	Chair/Chief Executive Officer, Clean Energy Regulator	$12,936
Mr Nick Ryan	Chief Executive Officer, Australian Aged Care Quality Agency	$12,216
Mr M Gooda	Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, Australian Human Rights Commission	$10,200
Mr Robert Fitzgerald	Commissioner, Productivity Commission	$9,950
The Hon. Gary Hardgrave	Administrator, Norfolk Island	$6,012