Remuneration Tribunal Amendment Determination (No. 3) 2025

We, the members of the Remuneration Tribunal, make the following determination.

Dated 30 May 2025

Contents

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

Remuneration Tribunal (Remuneration and Allowances for Holders of Full‑time Public Office) Determination 2024

Remuneration Tribunal (Remuneration and Allowances for Holders of Part‑time Public Office) Determination 2024

1  Name

  This instrument is the Remuneration Tribunal Amendment Determination (No. 3) 2025.

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.

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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 (Remuneration and Allowances for Holders of Full‑time Public Office) Determination 2024

1  Section 7 (after paragraph (b) of the definition of employer superannuation contribution)

Insert:

 (ba) if the office holder is a member of the defined benefit division of UniSuper—the amount mentioned in paragraph 14(5A)(b); or

2  Section 7 (definition of superannuation salary)

Omit “DFRDB or MSBS”, substitute “DFRDB, MSBS or the defined benefit division of UniSuper”.

3  Section 10 (Table 2A, after table item dealing with Director, Professional Services Review)

Insert:

4  After subsection 14(5)

Insert:

UniSuper

 (5A) For an office holder who is a member of the defined benefit division of UniSuper:

 (a) the office holder’s annual rate of salary for the purposes of the defined benefit division of UniSuper is the office holder’s superannuation salary; and

 (b) for the purposes of paragraph (ba) of the definition of employer superannuation contribution in section 7, the amount is the contribution made by an employer to the defined benefit division of UniSuper in respect of the office holder.

Note 1: For the superannuation salary for an office holder who is a member of the defined benefit division of UniSuper, see section 15.

Note 2: Generally, the contribution made by an employer to the defined benefit division of UniSuper in respect of an office holder is either 14% or 17% of the office holder’s superannuation salary.

5  Section 15 (heading)

Omit “DFRDB and MSBS”, substitute “DFRDB, MSBS and UniSuper”.

6  Subsection 15(1)

Omit “DFRDB or MSBS”, substitute “DFRDB, MSBS or the defined benefit division of UniSuper”.

Remuneration Tribunal (Remuneration and Allowances for Holders of Part‑time Public Office) Determination 2024

7  Section 16 (Table 3A, after table item dealing with Creative Australia First Nations Board—Member)

Insert: