Civil List Amendment Act 1983
Civil List Amendment Act 1983
Civil List Amendment Act 1983
Civil List Amendment Act 1983
Public Act |
1983 No 23 |
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Date of assent |
7 October 1983 |
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An Act to amend the Civil List Act 1979
BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
1 Short Title and commencement
(1)
This Act may be cited as the Civil List Amendment Act 1983, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Civil List Act 1979 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).
(2)
This Act shall come into force on a date to be appointed by the Governor-General by Order in Council.
2 Salary of Administrator
The principal Act is hereby amended by repealing section 8, and substituting the following section:
“8
“(1)
Where the Chief Justice, or the President of the Court of Appeal, or, as the case may require, the Senior Judge for the time being of the Court of Appeal acts as the Administrator of the Government, that person shall, in respect of the period for which that person acts as the Administrator of the Government, be paid either:
“(a)
A salary at half the rate of the Governor-General’s salary and a salary at half the rate of the salary of that person’s judicial office; or
“(b)
A salary at the rate of the salary of his judicial office,—
whichever is the greater.
“(2)
The salary paid to any person to whom subsection (1) of this section applies shall, in respect of the period for which he acts as the Administrator of the Government, be in substitution for the salary payable in respect of that person’s judicial office.
“(3)
This section shall have effect notwithstanding anything in section 10 of the Judicature Act 1908.
“(4)
Notwithstanding subsections (1) and (2) of this section, if a person who acts as the Administrator of the Government is a contributor to the Government Superannuation Fund, that person’s rate of salary shall, for the purposes of the Government Superannuation Fund Act 1956, be deemed to remain, during the period for which that person so acts, that of that person’s judicial office.”
This Act is administered in the Prime Minister’s Department.