REMUNERATION AND ALLOWANCES AMENDMENT ACT 1976

No. 83 of 1976

An Act relating to the Remuneration and Allowances payable to the Judges of the Family Court of Australia.

BE IT ENACTED by the Queen, and the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:—

Short title and citation.

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Remuneration and Allowances Amendment Act 1976.

(2) The Remuneration and Allowances Act 1973-1975, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Remuneration and Allowances Act 1973-1976.

Commencement.

2. This Act shall be deemed to have come into operation on 5 January 1976.

Salaries and allowances of Judges of Family Court of Australia.

3. After section 13 of the Remuneration and Allowances Act 1973-1975 the following section is inserted in Part IV:—

“14. (1) The Chief Judge of the Family Court of Australia shall receive salary at the rate of $36,000 per annum and an annual allowance at the rate of $2,250 per annum.

“(2) Each Senior Judge of the Family Court of Australia shall receive salary at the rate of $35,000 per annum and an annual allowance at the rate of $ 1,750 per annum.

“(3) Each other Judge of the Family Court of Australia shall receive salary at the rate of $30,000 per annum and an annual allowance at the rate of $ 1,500 per annum.

“(4) Where the Chief Judge, a Senior Judge or another Judge of the Family Court of Australia travels to discharge the duties of his office, there is payable to him, in respect of each overnight stay, a travelling allowance of $42.

“(5) The provisions of this section are in substitution for the provisions of sub-sections 25(1), (2), (3) and (5) of the Family Law Act 1975 as in force at the commencement of this section.

“(6) In this section, ‘Chief Judge of the Family Court of Australia’ includes a Senior Judge of that Court for the time being performing the duties and exercising the powers of the Chief Judge of that Court.”.