Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

REMUNERATION AND ALLOWANCES ALTERATION ACT 1986 - SECT 14

Subsection 7(8) of the Remuneration Tribunals Act 1973 does not apply in relation to a determination of the Remuneration Tribunal referred to in section 3 or 4 of this Act or in relation to such a determination as modified by this Act.

15 Recovery of overpayments

(1)

Where:

(a)

a person has been paid an amount by way of:

(i)

parliamentary salary; or

(ii)

parliamentary superannuation benefit; and

(b)

the amount so paid exceeds the amount that the person would have been entitled to be paid if Part II had been enacted, and had come into operation, on 1 July 1986;

the person is liable to pay to the Commonwealth the amount of the excess.

(2)

Where a person is liable to pay an amount to the Commonwealth under subsection (1):

(a)

the amount may be recovered, as a debt due to the Commonwealth, by action in a court of competent jurisdiction; and

(b)

the amount may be deducted from any other amount that is payable to the person by way of parliamentary salary or parliamentary superannuation benefit, as the case requires.

(3)

In this section: