Remuneration Tribunal Amendment Determination (No. 5) 2020
We, the members of the Remuneration Tribunal, make the following determination.
Dated 8 September 2020

		Signed		Signed	
John Conde AO		Heather Zampatti	
President		Member	

  

Contents
1	Name	1
2	Commencement	1
3	Authority	1
4	Schedules	1
Schedule 1—Amendments	2
Remuneration Tribunal (Judicial and Related Offices—Remuneration and Allowances) Determination 2020	2
Remuneration Tribunal (Remuneration and Allowances for Holders of Full‑time Public Office) Determination 2020	2
Remuneration Tribunal (Remuneration and Allowances for Holders of Part‑time Public Office) Determination 2020	3

1  Name
		This instrument is the Remuneration Tribunal Amendment Determination (No. 5) 2020.
2  Commencement
	(1)	Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Commencement information	
Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	
Provisions	Commencement	Date/Details	
1.  The whole of this instrument	The day after this instrument is registered.	11 September 2020	
Note:	This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.
	(2)	Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.
3  Authority
		This instrument is made under subsections 7(3) and (4) of the Remuneration Tribunal Act 1973.
4  Schedules
		Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.
Schedule 1—Amendments
  
Remuneration Tribunal (Judicial and Related Offices—Remuneration and Allowances) Determination 2020
1  At the end of section 15
Add:
Special arrangements for the COVID‑19 pandemic
	(6)	Despite subsection (4), if, at the end of 2020, the Judge has a balance of recreation leave accrued during 2020, the Judge may retain up to 2 weeks of that balance for use before the end of 2022.
Remuneration Tribunal (Remuneration and Allowances for Holders of Full‑time Public Office) Determination 2020
2  Section 7
Insert:
Table 6A means the table of application and transitional provisions in section 23.
3  Section 10 (Table 2A, after table item dealing with Examiner, Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission)
Insert:

Chief Executive Officer, Australian Research Council	$471,090	Table 2B, item 20 and Table 6A, item 1	1	

4  Section 11 (Table 2B, at the end of the table)
Add:

20	Chief Executive Officer, Australian Research Council	Total remuneration for Professor Sue Thomas is $489,790 per year for the period beginning on 1 August 2020 and ending on 2 July 2022.	

5  Subsection 15(2) (Table 3B, after table item 10)
Insert:

10A	Ms Cathryn Pope, Deputy President, Repatriation Commission (beginning on 6 August 2020, until 5 August 2025)	$293,346	

6  Subsection 19(6) (Table 5A, table item 8)
Repeal the item, substitute:

8	Mr David Chalmers	Chief Executive Officer, Aboriginal Hostels Limited (beginning on 11 March 2020, until 10 March 2021)	$34,500	

7  Subsection 22(4) (Table 5B, table item 12)
Repeal the item, substitute:

12	Mr David Chalmers	Chief Executive Officer, Aboriginal Hostels Limited (beginning on 11 March 2020, until 10 March 2021)	$16,800	

8  At the end of the instrument
Add:
Part 6—Application and transitional provisions
  
23  Application and transitional provisions—general
		The following table (Table 6A) sets out application and transitional provisions for the provisions in column 1.

Table 6A—Application and transitional provisions	
Item	Column 1
Provision	Column 2
Application and transitional provisions	
1	Table 2A, item dealing with Chief Executive Officer, Australian Research Council	This item applies on and after 1 August 2020 (see the Remuneration Tribunal Amendment Determination (No. 5) 2020).	

Remuneration Tribunal (Remuneration and Allowances for Holders of Part‑time Public Office) Determination 2020
9  Section 8
Insert:
Table 8A means the table of application and transitional provisions in section 48.
10  Section 16 (Table 3A, table item dealing with Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, column 5)
Omit “items 2, 23 and 24”, substitute “items 2 and 23”.
11  Section 16 (Table 3A, table item dealing with Aboriginal Hostels Limited, column 5)
Insert “Table 3B, item 27”.
12  Section 17 (Table 3B, table item 23, column 2)
Omit “On and after 21 October 2019, a member (other than the Chair or Deputy Chair)”, substitute “On and after 28 June 2020, a member (other than the Chair)”.
13  Section 17 (Table 3B, table item 24)
Repeal the item.
14  Section 17 (Table 3B, at the end of the table)
Add:

27	Aboriginal Hostels Limited	On and after 10 June 2020, a member (other than the Chair) who is also appointed to the Audit, Risk and Finance Committee or the Asset Management Committee is entitled to additional fees as follows:
(a) for the Chair of the Audit, Risk and Finance Committee—$16,320 per year;
(b) for a member of the Audit, Risk and Finance Committee—$8,160 per year;
(c) for the Chair of the Asset Management Committee—$8,160 per year;
(d) for a member of the Asset Management Committee—$4,080 per year.
A member who is covered by more than one of the above paragraphs receives only the highest additional fee for any of the paragraphs that applies to the member.	

15  Section 22 (Table 4A, after table item dealing with National Faster Rail Agency—Expert Panel)
Insert:

National Soils Advocate	$1,000			Table 4B, item 21 and Table 8A, item 1	2	

16  Section 22 (Table 4A, table item dealing with Anti‑Doping Rule Violation Panel)
Repeal the item.
17  Section 23 (Table 4B, at the end of the table)
Add:

21	National Soils Advocate	The daily fee is capped at 100 days per year.	

18  At the end of the instrument
Add:
Part 8—Application and transitional provisions
  
47  Simplified outline of this Part
This Part contains application and transitional provisions, which provide for how and when amendments of this instrument apply.
48  Application and transitional provisions—general
		The following table (Table 8A) sets out application and transitional provisions for the provisions in column 1.

Table 8A—Application and transitional provisions	
Item	Column 1
Provision	Column 2
Application and transitional provisions	
1	Table 4A, item dealing with National Soils Advocate	This item, as inserted by the Remuneration Tribunal Amendment Determination (No. 5) 2020, applies on and after 28 August 2020.