Parliamentary Annuities Determination 2021
Parliamentary Annuities Determination 2021
Parliamentary Annuities Determination 2021: revoked (after expiring on 31 December 2022), on 1 January 2023, by clause 5 of the Parliamentary Annuities Determination 2022 (SL 2022/317).
Parliamentary Annuities Determination 2021
Version as at 1 January 2023

Parliamentary Annuities Determination 2021
(SL 2021/380)
Parliamentary Annuities Determination 2021: revoked (after expiring on 31 December 2022), on 1 January 2023, by clause 5 of the Parliamentary Annuities Determination 2022 (SL 2022/317).
Note
The Parliamentary Counsel Office has made editorial and format changes to this version using the powers under subpart 2 of Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019.
Note 4 at the end of this version provides a list of the amendments included in it.
This determination (to which is appended an explanatory memorandum) is made by the Remuneration Authority under section 43 of the Members of Parliament (Remuneration and Services) Act 2013 and in accordance with the Remuneration Authority Act 1977.
Determination
1 Title
This determination is the Parliamentary Annuities Determination 2021.
2 Commencement
This determination comes into force on 1 January 2022.
3 Annuity for former Prime Minister
The annuity payable under section 43(1)(a) of the Members of Parliament (Remuneration and Services) Act 2013 to a person who has held the office of Prime Minister for not less than 2 years (whether for a continuous period or for periods totalling 2 years) is payable at the yearly rate of the lesser of the following:
(a)
$11,100 for each complete year of the total period for which the person held the office:
(b)
$55,500 (annual maximum annuity payable).
4 Expiry
This determination expires on 31 December 2022.
5 Revocation
The Parliamentary Annuities Determination (No 2) 2020 (LI 2020/297) is revoked.
Dated at Wellington this 23rd day of November 2021.
Fran Wilde,
Chairperson.
Geoff Summers,
Member.
Dallas Welch,
Member.
Explanatory memorandum
This memorandum is not part of the determination, but is intended to indicate its general effect.
This determination, which comes into force on 1 January 2022, sets the annuity payable to a person who has held the office of Prime Minister (a former Prime Minister) for not less than 2 years, whether for a continuous period or for periods totalling 2 years. It replaces the Parliamentary Annuities Determination (No 2) 2020, which expires on 31 December 2021.
In making this determination and after consulting those affected, the Remuneration Authority (the Authority) took into account the mandatory criteria listed in section 18 of the Remuneration Authority Act 1977. In addition, it took into account section 18A of that Act, which requires the Authority to consider prevailing adverse economic conditions. This is an important criterion at this time, given the negative impact that COVID-19 is having on the New Zealand economy and society.
Although the local economy has proven to be more resilient than predicted at this time last year, the further waves of COVID-19 recurring around the world continue to present a highly volatile and uncertain environment. Many sectors and regions around New Zealand continue to be challenged by localised outbreaks of the virus and by the movements in and out of alert levels. Given the continued global and local economic uncertainty, the Authority has taken a conservative approach in making this determination and has increased the annuities for former Prime Ministers by 1.9% for the 2022 year.
Under section 43(1)(b) of the Members of Parliament (Remuneration and Services) Act 2013, the surviving spouse or partner of a former Prime Minister must be paid an annuity at half that yearly rate.
This determination expires on 31 December 2022.
Issued under the authority of the Legislation Act 2019.
Date of notification in Gazette: 25 November 2021.
Notes
1 General
This is a consolidation of the Parliamentary Annuities Determination 2021 that incorporates the amendments made to the legislation so that it shows the law as at its stated date.
2 Legal status
A consolidation is taken to correctly state, as at its stated date, the law enacted or made by the legislation consolidated and by the amendments. This presumption applies unless the contrary is shown.
Section 78 of the Legislation Act 2019 provides that this consolidation, published as an electronic version, is an official version. A printed version of legislation that is produced directly from this official electronic version is also an official version.
3 Editorial and format changes
The Parliamentary Counsel Office makes editorial and format changes to consolidations using the powers under subpart 2 of Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019. See also PCO editorial conventions for consolidations.