Queensland Consolidated Acts

CITY OF BRISBANE ACT 1924 - SECT 22

(1) Subject to this section the mayor and other councillors shall respectively be entitled to be paid from the city fund salaries at such rates per annum as the council shall from time to time determine.

(1A) Salaries as aforesaid may be determined by the council differentially according to the following classes of offices--

(a) the mayor;

(b) the deputy mayor;

(c) the leader of the opposition;

(d) the chairperson of the council;

(e) the respective chairpersons of standing committees of the council;

(f) other councillors;

but the council shall not have power to differentiate between the respective salaries of the councillors holding the offices specified in paragraph (e), or between the respective salaries of councillors specified in paragraph (f).

(1AA) Despite subsection (1A), councillors who are directors of a significant business entity--

(a) may receive salaries in addition to the salaries under subsection (1A); but

(b) must receive the same additional salary.

(1AB) Despite subsection (1A), councillors who are shareholder's delegates for the council's LGOC--

(a) may receive salaries in addition to the salaries under subsection (1A); but

(b) must receive the same additional salary.

(1B) However--

(a) the mayor shall be entitled to receive in addition to salary such allowance for expenses as the council may from time to time determine;

(b) if the deputy mayor is also the chairperson of a standing committee of the council--the deputy mayor shall, while the deputy mayor continues to hold both of those offices, be entitled to be paid the salary of whichever of them is the higher, but the deputy mayor shall not be entitled to be paid, and shall not be paid, both of those salaries;

(c) during any time during which the mayor is prevented by absence, illness, or otherwise howsoever from performing the duties of that office, the deputy mayor may be paid from the city fund such additional salary as the council may in the circumstances determine, but so that such additional salary shall not together with the salary payable to the deputy mayor as such (or, if the deputy mayor is paid salary as the chairperson of a standing committee of the council, together with the salary payable to the deputy mayor as such chairperson) exceed the rate of salary payable for the time being to the mayor;

(d) unless otherwise determined by the council, any additional salary determined by the council to be payable to the deputy mayor under the provisions of paragraph (c) shall be deducted from the salary payable for the time being to the mayor;

(e) unless otherwise determined by the council, councillors who are directors of significant business entities under the Local Government Act, chapter 8, part 7 may also receive remuneration and allowances payable to directors of the entity.

(2) Every councillor, including the mayor, shall be entitled to be paid monthly the salary lawfully payable under this section in respect of the office for the time being held by the councillor until he or she vacates that office.