FIJI

PRESCRIPTION OF SALARIES (AMENDMENT) ACT, 1997

ACT NO. 5 OF 1997

I assent.

[L.S.]

K. K. T. MARA
President

[10th March 1997]

AN ACT

TO AMEND THE PRESCRIPTION OF SALARIES ACT

[1 January 1996]

ENACTED by the Parliament of Fiji -

Short title

1. This Act may be cited as the Prescription of Salaries (Amendment) Act, 1997.

Commencement

2. This Act shall be deemed to have come into force on the 1st day of January, 1996.

Schedule amended

3. The Schedule to the Prescription of Salaries Act (Chapter 2) is amended by substituting for the figures in Column 2 of the following Table in relation to an office specification in Column 1 of the Table the figures in Column 3 of that Table in relation to that office:

"TABLE

Column 1
Existing Title	Column 2
Existing Salary
Per Annum	Column 3
Revised Salary
Per Annum Wef
1/1/96	
			
	$	$	
			
President	83,884	86,401	
			
Chairman of the Public Service Commission	12,322	12,692	
			
Member of the Public Service Commission	6,161	6,346	
			
Chairman of the Police Service Commission (if not the fulltime Chairman of the Public Service Commission or a Public Officer)	6,161	6,346	
			
Member of the Police Service Commission if not a Public Officer	6,161	6,346	
			
Supervisor of Elections	38,280	39,428	
			
Director of Public Prosecutions	53,900	55,517	
			
Ombudsman	53,900	55,517	
			
Auditor-General	53,900	55,517"	

Passed by the House of Representatives this eighteenth day of February, in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and ninety-seven.

Passed by the Senate this twenty sixth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand, nine hundred and ninety-seven.
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