New Zealand Legislation: Acts

20 Deductions from members' salaries and allowances

• (1) The payment under this Act of salaries and allowances to persons who are members of Parliament shall be subject to the following provisions:

  • (a) if during any session a member is absent for any number of sitting days exceeding 14, there shall be deducted from the payment to be made to the member the sum of $10 for every sitting day (exclusive of those 14 sitting days) during which the member was absent:

  • (b) the exemption from deduction for absence for 14 sitting days during any session shall be reckoned from the commencement of the session and allowed accordingly, after which the prescribed deduction for absence shall be made from the instalment or instalments accruing due next after the occurrence of any such absence:

  • (c) no deduction for absence shall be made where the absence is certified by the Speaker of the House to be caused—

    • (i) by illness; or

    • (ii) by any other cause certified by the Speaker of the House to be unavoidable:

  • (d) no deduction for the absence of the member shall be made where the absence is caused by the member's attendance at any conference, meeting, or ceremony, or the member's travelling on any mission or business, as a representative of Parliament or with the authority of the House of Representatives:

  • (e) in this section the expression sitting day means a day on which the House of Representatives is appointed to sit for the transaction of business during any session.

  (2) No expenses are payable in respect of any sitting day for which a deduction is made under this section.

  Compare: 1950 No 99 s 23

  Section 20(2): added, on 1 April 2003, by section 4(1) of the Remuneration Authority (Members of Parliament) Amendment Act 2002 (2002 No 54).