REMUNERATION TRIBUNAL

Explanatory Statement: Determination 2014/06
Remuneration and Allowances for Holders of Public Office
1.	The Remuneration Tribunal has inquired into and determined the remuneration and significantly related matters for certain office holders, as it is empowered to do by the Remuneration Tribunal Act 1973.
2.	In making this determination the Tribunal has informed itself through consultation in accordance with established practice.

PART 1 – PART-TIME OFFICES
3.	Clause 1.1 specifies the Principal Determination (Number 3 of 2014 as amended) for the purposes of Part 1 of the Determination.
4.	Clauses 1.2, 1.3 and 1.4 amend terminology used in the Principal Determination concerning the calculation of part or full daily fees.  This is in recognition that the wording in the Principal Determination had the capacity to create some confusion about the correct payment for a day of exactly two or three hours.  The new wording clearly sets out what the Remuneration Tribunal intended in making the Principal Determination.   

	

Authority: Subsections 7(3) and 7(4) of the Remuneration Tribunal Act 1973.

Statement of Compatibility with Human Rights
Prepared in accordance with Part 3 of the Human Rights (Parliamentary Scrutiny) Act 2011
Remuneration Tribunal Determination 2014/06
This Legislative Instrument is compatible with the human rights and freedoms recognised or declared in the international instruments listed in section 3 of the Human Rights (Parliamentary Scrutiny) Act 2011.
Overview of the Legislative Instrument
This Determination amends Principal Tribunal Determinations 2014/03: Remuneration and Allowances for Holders of Part-Time Public Office:  
Specifically the determination amends the methodology for the calculation of daily fees on a meeting day to correct a drafting error in Determination 2014/03.  The determination reinstates the provision that applied prior to 1 March 2014 whereby a daily fee becomes payable on a meeting day after three or more hours, rather than after more than three hours. 
The instrument maintains the principles of fair, and current, remuneration for work performed and just and favourable conditions of work.

Human rights implications
This Legislative Instrument does not engage any of the applicable rights or freedoms. 

Conclusion
This Legislative Instrument is compatible with human rights as it does not raise any human rights issues.
The Remuneration Tribunal