Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) The Premier shall,
before an appointment is made to the office of Governor, request the Tribunal
to inquire into, and determine, the remuneration to be paid to the Governor.
(2) The Tribunal
shall, on receiving a request made under subsection (1), comply with that
request.
(3) The Tribunal may,
in complying with a request made under subsection (1), in its
determination specify a method of altering from time to time the remuneration
payable to the Governor during the subsistence of the appointment referred to
in that subsection.
(4) A determination
made by the Tribunal under this section shall —
(a) be
in writing;
(b) be
signed by the members; and
(c) come
into operation, or be deemed to have come into operation, on the day on which
the appointment referred to in subsection (1) is made.
(5) The Tribunal shall
cause one copy of each determination made under this section to be given to
the Premier who shall, not later than 14 days from the date on which the
Premier receives the determination, inform the Tribunal that he agrees or does
not agree with that determination and, where he does not agree, set out the
grounds for his disagreement and recommendations as to the alterations that he
believes should be made.
(6) The Tribunal,
having considered the Premier’s recommendations following his
disagreement with the determination, shall either amend the determination or
reaffirm the determination.
(7) The text of the
determination as finally settled shall be published in the Gazette .
(8) Any remuneration
payable under, or under any method of alteration specified in, any
determination made under this section shall, notwithstanding any other written
law, be paid in accordance with that determination out of the Consolidated
Account, which is appropriated accordingly.
(9) The remuneration
payable under a determination which has come into operation under this section
in respect of a particular appointment to the office of Governor shall not,
subject to any alteration effected under any method of alteration specified in
that determination, be altered while that appointment subsists.
(10) Notwithstanding
anything in this section, the Tribunal shall forthwith on the coming into
operation of section 9 of the Acts Amendment (Remuneration of Governor)
Act 1989 1 proceed to inquire into, and determine, the remuneration to be
paid to the Governor and this section shall apply to and in relation to that
determination as if that determination had been made in compliance with a
request made under subsection (1).
[Section 5A inserted by No. 19 of 1989
s. 9; amended by No. 77 of 2006 s. 4.]