Remuneration Tribunal Amendment Determination (No. 5) 2024
We, the members of the Remuneration Tribunal, make the following determination.
Dated	6 October 2024

Signed 	Signed 	Signed 	
Holly Kramer	Heather Zampatti	Stephen Conry AM	
President	Member	Member	

  

Contents
1	Name	1
2	Commencement	1
3	Authority	1
4	Schedules	1
Schedule 1—Amendments	2
Part 1—Amendments relating to the Administrative Review Tribunal	2
Remuneration Tribunal (Judicial and Related Offices—Remuneration and Allowances) Determination 2024	2
Part 2—Other amendments	5
Remuneration Tribunal (Remuneration and Allowances for Holders of Full‑time Public Office) Determination 2024	5
Remuneration Tribunal (Remuneration and Allowances for Holders of Part‑time Public Office) Determination 2024	5
Remuneration Tribunal (Specified Statutory Offices—Remuneration and Allowances) Determination 2024	6

1  Name
		This instrument is the Remuneration Tribunal Amendment Determination (No. 5) 2024.
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.  Sections 1 to 4 and anything in this instrument not elsewhere covered by this table	The day after this instrument is registered.	12 October 2024	
2.  Schedule 1, Part 1	At the same time as the Administrative Review Tribunal Act 2024 commences.	14 October 2024	
3.  Schedule 1, Part 2	The day after this instrument is registered.	12 October 2024	
Note:	This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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), (3AA), (4) and (4B) 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		Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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
Part 1—Amendments relating to the Administrative Review Tribunal
Remuneration Tribunal (Judicial and Related Offices—Remuneration and Allowances) Determination 2024
1  Section 7 (definitions of AAT and AAT Act)
Repeal the definitions.
2  Section 7
Insert:
ART means the Administrative Review Tribunal.
ART Act means the Administrative Review Tribunal Act 2024.
3  Section 7 (definition of Table 4B)
Repeal the definition.
4  Section 10 (Table 2A, table item dealing with AAT—President)
Repeal the item, substitute:
ART—President	$569,590	1	
5  Paragraph 11(d)
Repeal the paragraph.
6  Section 21 (Table 3A, table item dealing with AAT—Deputy President (non‑judicial))
Repeal the item.
7  Section 21 (Table 3A, table item dealing with AAT—Senior member (level 1))
Repeal the item.
8  Section 21 (Table 3A, table item dealing with AAT—Senior member (level 2))
Repeal the item.
9  Section 21 (Table 3A, table item dealing with AAT—Member (level 1))
Repeal the item.
10  Section 21 (Table 3A, table item dealing with AAT—Member (level 2))
Repeal the item.
11  Section 21 (Table 3A, table item dealing with AAT—Member (level 3))
Repeal the item.
12  Section 21 (Table 3A, table item dealing with AAT—Registrar)
Repeal the item.
13  Section 21 (Table 3A, at the end of the table)
Add:
ART—Non‑Judicial Deputy President (salaried)	$549,210	2	
ART—Senior member (salaried)	$399,210	2	
ART—General member (salaried)	$245,220	2	
ART—Principal Registrar (salaried)	$490,410	2	
14  Subsection 25(2) (Table 3C, table item 1)
Repeal the item.
15  Subsection 25(3)
Repeal the subsection.
16  Subsection 34(1) (note)
Omit “AAT”, substitute “ART”.
17  Subsection 34(1) (note)
Omit “or 39”.
18  Section 35 (Table 4A, table item dealing with AAT—Deputy President)
Repeal the item.
19  Section 35 (Table 4A, table item dealing with AAT—Senior member (level 1))
Repeal the item.
20  Section 35 (Table 4A, table item dealing with AAT—Senior member (level 2))
Repeal the item.
21  Section 35 (Table 4A, table item dealing with AAT—Member (level 1))
Repeal the item.
22  Section 35 (Table 4A, table item dealing with AAT—Member (level 2))
Repeal the item.
23  Section 35 (Table 4A, table item dealing with AAT—Member (level 3))
Repeal the item.
24  Section 35 (Table 4A, at the end of the table)
Add:
ART—Deputy President (sessional)	$2,158	Section 38	2	
ART—Senior member (sessional)	$1,660	Section 38	2	
ART—General member (sessional)	$1,052	Section 38	2	
25  Section 38 (heading)
Omit “AAT”, substitute “ART”.
26  Subsection 38(1)
Omit “AAT”, substitute “ART”.
27  Subsection 38(1)
Omit “who is not covered by section 39”.
28  Section 39
Repeal the section.
Part 2—Other amendments
Remuneration Tribunal (Remuneration and Allowances for Holders of Full‑time Public Office) Determination 2024
29  Section 10 (Table 2A, table item dealing with Merit Protection Commissioner, column 3)
Insert “Table 2B, item 13”.
30  Section 11 (Table 2B, at the end of the table)
Add:
13	Merit Protection Commissioner	Ms Jamie Lowe will receive an additional fixed loading of $61,298 per year beginning on 30 September 2024 and ending on 31 December 2024.	
31  Subsection 15(2) (Table 3B, at the end of the table)
Add:
9	Ms Jamie Lowe, Merit Protection Commissioner	$302,517	
32  Subsection 19(6) (Table 5A, table items 4 and 5)
Repeal the items.
33  Subsection 22(4) (Table 5B, table items 5 and 8)
Repeal the items.
Remuneration Tribunal (Remuneration and Allowances for Holders of Part‑time Public Office) Determination 2024
34  Section 16 (Table 3A, table item dealing with Australian Heritage Council, column 5)
Insert “Table 3B, item 22”.
35  Section 16 (Table 3A, table item dealing with Cancer Australia Advisory Council, column 5)
Omit “Table 3B, item 15”.
36  Section 16 (Table 3A, table item dealing with Australian Film Television and Radio School—Council, column 3)
Insert “$29,150”.
37  Section 16 (Table 3A, table item dealing with National Museum of Australia Council, column 3)
Insert “$24,540”.
38  Section 17 (Table 3B, table item 15)
Repeal the item.
39  Section 17 (Table 3B, at the end of the table)
Add:
22	Australian Heritage Council	While Professor the Hon Bob Carr occupies the office of Chair he is to receive an annual fee of $61,422 instead of the amount in column 2 of Table 3A.	
Remuneration Tribunal (Specified Statutory Offices—Remuneration and Allowances) Determination 2024
40  Section 7
Insert:
office locality, in relation to an office holder, means the geographic locality of the office holder’s usual place of work on official business.
41  Section 7 (definition of official travel determination)
Omit “Remuneration Tribunal (Official Travel) Determination 2023”, substitute “Remuneration Tribunal (Official Travel) Determination 2024”.
42  Section 7
Insert:
Table 5A means the table of accommodation assistance in subsection 16(6).
Table 5B means the table of reunion fares assistance in subsection 17(4).
43  Before paragraph 8(3)(a)
Insert:
	(aa)	assistance paid in accordance with Part 5;
44  After Part 4
Insert:
Part 5—Travel and accommodation assistance
  
16  Accommodation assistance
	(1)	An office holder in column 1 of Table 5A is eligible to be reimbursed for qualifying accommodation costs while the office holder:
	(a)	occupies the office in column 2; and
	(b)	has a principal place of residence in a locality (the PPR locality) other than the office locality.
Commercial accommodation
	(2)	For the purposes of subsection (1), if the office holder is in commercial accommodation in the office locality, the following are qualifying accommodation costs up to the amount (per year) in column 3 of Table 5A:
	(a)	the costs of the commercial accommodation;
	(b)	settling‑in costs (including one‑off utility connection costs);
	(c)	if the commercial accommodation does not include cooking facilities—the cost of meals.
Private, non‑commercial accommodation
	(3)	For the purposes of subsection (1), if the office holder is in private, non‑commercial accommodation (such as the home of a family member or friend) in the office locality, the costs of the private, non‑commercial accommodation are qualifying accommodation costs up to one third of the amount (per year) in column 3 of Table 5A.
Exclusions
	(4)	Assistance is not payable under this section while the office holder lives in premises owned by the office holder in the office locality.
	(5)	An office holder is not eligible to access travel allowance entitlements under the official travel determination in the PPR locality or the office locality while the office holder remains eligible to receive assistance under this section.
Amounts of accommodation assistance
	(6)	Amounts of accommodation assistance are set out in the following table (Table 5A).

Table 5A—Accommodation assistance	
Item	Column 1
Office holder	Column 2
Office	Column 3
Assistance (per year)	
1	Dr Caralee McLiesh	Auditor‑General for Australia (between 4 November 2024 and 21 December 2024)	$5,750	

17  Reunion travel assistance
	(1)	An office holder in column 1 of Table 5B may receive travel costs of up to the amount (per year) in column 3 for travel back to the locality of the office holder’s principal place of residence (the PPR locality) for the purpose of family reunion, while the office holder occupies the office in column 2.
	(2)	If the office holder certifies that the workload and responsibilities of the office prevent the office holder from travelling to the PPR locality for reunion purposes, the costs of reunion travel by the office holder’s partner, or a child or children of the office holder or of the office holder’s partner, who resides at the office holder’s principal place of residence, can be funded. Funding paid in accordance with this subsection counts towards the limit in subsection (1).
	(3)	Travel by a person other than the office holder funded in accordance with subsection (2) must be at economy class, and only for direct travel between the PPR locality and the office locality.
	(4)	Amounts of reunion travel assistance are set out in the following table (Table 5B).

Table 5B—Reunion travel assistance	
Item	Column 1
Office holder	Column 2
Office	Column 3
Assistance (per year)	
1	Dr Caralee McLiesh	Auditor‑General for Australia (between 4 November 2024 and 21 December 2024)	$8,000