New Zealand Legislation: Acts
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(1) There shall be paid to the Chief Justice, to the other Judges of the Supreme Court, to the President of the Court of Appeal, to the other Judges of the Court of Appeal, and to the other Judges, out of public money, without further appropriation than this section,
(a) Salaries at such rates as the Remuneration Authority from time to time determines; and
(b) Such allowances as are from time to time determined by the Remuneration Authority; and
(c) Such additional allowances, being travelling allowances or other incidental or minor allowances, as may be determined from time to time by the Governor-General.
(2) Subject to the Remuneration Authority Act 1977, any determination made under subsection (1) of this section, and any provision of any such determination, may be made so as to come into force on a date to be specified in that behalf in the determination, being the date of the making of the determination or any other date, whether before or after the date of the making of the determination or the date of the commencement of this section.
(3) Every such determination, and every provision of any such determination, in respect of which no date is specified as aforesaid shall come into force on the date of the making of the determination.
(4) The salary and allowances payable for a period during which a Judge acts on a part-time basis must be calculated and paid as a pro-rata proportion of the salary and allowances for a full-time equivalent position.
(5) For the purpose of section 24 of the Constitution Act 1986, the payment of salary and allowances on a pro-rata basis under subsection (4) is not a reduction of salary.
Section 9A was inserted, as from 1 April 1985, by section 2 Judicature Amendment Act (No 3) 1985 (1985 No 136).
Section 9A was amended, as from 1 April 2003, by section 4(1) Remuneration Authority (Members of Parliament) Amendment Act 2002 (2002 No 54) by substituting the words “Remuneration Authority”
for the words “Higher Salaries Commission”
in every place where they appear.
Subsection (1) was amended, as from 1 July 1989, by section 86(1) Public Finance Act 1989 (1989 No 44) by substituting the words “public money”
for the words “the Consolidated Account”
.
Subsection (1) was amended, as from 1 January 2004, by section 48(1) Supreme Court Act 2003 (2003 No 53) by substituting the words “the other Judges of the Supreme Court, to the President of the Court of Appeal, to the other”
for the words “the President of the Court of Appeal, to the”
. See sections 50 to 55 of that Act as to the transitional and savings provisions.
Subsections (4) and (5) were inserted, as from 20 May 2004, by section 5 Judicature Amendment Act 2004 (2004 No 45).