REPUBLIC OF KIRIBATI
(No. 10 of 1983)

I assent,

I. Tabai
Beretitenti.
19 May 1983

AN ACT TO AMEND THE STATUTORY SALARIES ORDINANCE (CAP 96A)

Commencement: 19 May 1983

MADE by the Maneaba ni Maungatabu and assented to by the Beretitenti.

Short title

1. This Act may be cited as the Statutory Salaries (Amendment) Act 1983.

Repeal of Schedule in Principal Ordinance

2. The Schedule to the Principal Ordinance is hereby repealed and the following Schedule substituted therefor:

"SCHEDULE

Column 1	Column 2
(Provident Fund Deductions not made)	Column 3
(Provident Fund Deductions made)	
Speaker	$7799	$8215	
Chief Justice	$7799	$8215	
Attorney General	$7799	$8215	
Director of Audit	$7182	$7560	
Commissioner of Police	$7182	$7560	
Chairman, Public Service Commission	$7497	$7888	
Member, Public Service Commission	A fee of $10 for each day (or part of a day) on which he attends a meeting of the Public Service Commission	A fee of $10 for each day (or part of a day) on which he attends a meeting of the Public Service Commission."	

Retrospective effect

3. The Schedule herein has effect from the 1st day of January 1982.

Power to amend (Amends S.4 of Principal Ordinance)

4. Section 4 of the Principal Ordinance is amended by substituting a comma for the fullstop at 
the end of the sentence and by adding the following words:

"and such amendment may be made by Order of the Beretitenti acting upon the advice of Cabinet".

New Section 5

5. The Principal Ordinance is hereby further amended by inserting after Section 4 therein as hereby amended, a new Section to be numbered Section 5 and to read as follows:

"Section 5: An amendment made in accordance with Section 4 hereof shall be consistent with fluctuations in salary and allowances in the public sector taken as a whole".

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THE STATUTORY SALARIES (AMENDMENT) ACT 1983

EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM

The Schedule to the Statutory Salaries Ordinance (Cap. 96A) lays down salaries and other remuneration to be paid out of the Consolidated Fund to certain statutory office holders namely the Speaker Chief Justice, Attorney General, Director of Audit, Commissioner of Police and the Chairman and other members of the Public Service Commission.

As from the 1st January 1932 Public Service employees received a 5 per cent salary increase which was also given to the said Statutory Office holders.

For the increase given to Statutory Office holders to be given the force of law, the Schedule to Cap. 96A (which states respective salaries) has to be amended. That is the prime purpose of this Act namely to amend the stated salaries in the Schedule to reflect the 5 per cent increase.

Cap. 96A expressly provides that any such amendment may have retrospective effect, and the Act so provides, as from 1st January 1982. A minor amendment has been to insert ‘per annum’ in Column 2 of the Schedule to make it clear that the stated salaries are on an annual basis.

Owing to the provisions of Cap. 96A as at present drafted, it is necessary to have an amendment Act whenever Statutory Office holders are given a salary increase. It is felt that such a procedure is cumbersome in the circumstances, and the opportunity has therefore been taken to provide by way of amendment for any future increase in salary to be given the force of law by Order of the Beretitenti acting upon the advice of Cabinet. Thus the Schedule to Cap. 96A can in future be amended by such Order.

R.L. Davey
Attorney General