REPUBLIC OF KIRIBATI
(No. 1 of 1980)

STATUTORY SALARIES (AMENDMENT) ACT 1980

I assent,

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Beretitenti
22 May, 1980

AN ACT TO AMEND THE STATUTORY SALARIES
ORDINANCE BY ADJUSTING THE SALARIES
PAYABLE TO THE SCHEDULED OFFICERS

Commencement: 1 January, 1979

Made by the Maneaba in Maungatabu and assented by the Beretitenti.

Short title and commencement

1. This Act may be cited as the Statutory Salaries (Amendment) Act, 1980, and shall be deemed to have come into preparation on January 1, 1979.

Amends section 2 of Ordinance No. 4 of 1977

2. Section 2 of the Statutory Salaries Ordinance (in this Act referred to as the principal Act) is amended by repealing the words "Senior Magistrate" in sub-section (2) and substituting the words "Chief Justice".

Repeals and replaces Schedule to Ordinance

3. The Schedule to the principal Act is repealed and following Schedule substituted:-

SCHEDULE

Column 1	Column 2
	
Speaker	$7,824 per annum	
Chief Justice	$7, 428 per annum	
Attorney-General	$7, 428 per annum	
Director of Audit	$7, 200 per annum	
Commissioner of Police	$7, 200 per annum	
Chairman, Public Service Commission	$7, 512  per annum	
Member, Public Service Commission	A fee of $10 for each day (or part of each day) on which he attends a meeting of the Public Service Commission.	

This printed impression has been carefully examined by me with the Bill which passed the Maneaba ni Maungatabu on 12 May, 1980, and is found by me to be a true and correctly printed copy of the said Bill.

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Clerk to the Maneaba
ni Maungatabu

Published by exhibition at the Public Office of the Beretitenti this 22 day of May, 1980.

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Secretary to the Cabinet
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EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM

The purpose of this Act is to amend the Schedule to the principal Act in order to give the holders of the posts covered by the Act the salary increase recently awarded to other members of the Public Service

The post of Senior Magistrate has been replaced by the Chief Justice and section 2 of the principal Act is to be amended accordingly.

The role of the Speaker has increased in importance following the Independence Constitution and it is considered that this should be reflected in a corresponding raise in his salary to Level 2 on a par with the Chief Justice and the Attorney-General.

In view of the increased workload on the Public Service Commission, entailing more frequent meetings, the post of the Chairman has become virtually a full-time job and it is considered this should be reflected by placing his salary at Level 3.

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Michael Jennings
Attorney-General