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Higher Salaries Commission Amendment Act 1982

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Remuneration of existing holder not to be reduced

Consultation with Commission

Higher Salaries Commission Amendment Act 1982

Public Act		1982 No 40
Date of assent		11 November 1982

	Title
1	Short Title
2	Interpretation
3	Remuneration
4	Remuneration of existing holder not to be reduced
5	Consultation with Commission
	Administrative information

An Act to amend the Higher Salaries Commission Act

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

This Act may be cited as the Higher Salaries Commission Amendment Act 1982, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Higher Salaries Commission Act 1977 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

2 Interpretation

Section 2 of the principal Act is hereby amended by adding the following definition:

“‘Remuneration’ includes salary, wages, and any other payments (whether in the form of bonuses or otherwise) in return for services:”.

3 Remuneration

The principal Act is hereby amended by inserting, after section 12, the following section:

“12a

“(1)

Notwithstanding anything in this Act, where the Commission has jurisdiction to determine the salary of any persons or group of persons pursuant to any subparagraph of section 12(1)(a) of this Act (other than subparagraph (i)), the Commission may, in relation to any such person or to any member of that group of persons,—

“(a)

Determine at any time that no remuneration may be paid to him in addition to that salary:

“(b)

Determine at any time what remuneration or class of remuneration may be paid to him in addition to that salary:

“(c)

Determine at any time the rates of any remuneration or class of remuneration that may be paid to him in addition to that salary or the criteria by which, or the limits within which, those rates are to be fixed.

“(2)

Every determination under subsection (1) of this section shall have effect according to its tenor.

“(3)

It shall be unlawful for any person to act contrary to a determination under subsection (1) of this section or to fail to observe the criteria or limits specified in any such determination.”

4 Remuneration of existing holder not to be reduced

Section 24 of the principal Act is hereby amended by omitting the word “salary” wherever it appears, and substituting in each case the word “remuneration”.

5 Consultation with Commission

The principal Act is hereby amended by repealing section 32, and substituting the following section:

“32

Where any corporation or body specified in Part I or Part II of the First Schedule to this Act or any university or the University Grants Committee or any local authority to which the Third Schedule to this Act applies considers that any remuneration which it proposes to agree to, or pay, will or may tend to lead to unreasonable disparities or inappropriate relativities with remuneration determined by the Commission under section 12 or section 12a of this Act, it shall, before agreeing to, or committing itself to the payment of, that remuneration, consult with the Commission and have due regard to any opinions expressed by the Commission and to any relevant remuneration determined by the Commission.”

This Act is administered in the Department of Labour.

Higher Salaries Commission Amendment Act 1982