REPUBLIC OF NAURU

PARLIAMENTARY SALARIES AND ALLOWANCES ACT 1991

No. 6 of 1991

AN ACT
TO PROVIDE FOR SALARIES AND ALLOWANCES FOR MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT AND MEMBERS OF CABINET
AN ACT
(Certified: 31 / 10 /1991)
SHORT TITLE
1. This Act may be cited as the Parliamentary Salaries and Allowances Act 1991.
COMMENCEMENT
2. This Act shall be deemed to have come into effect on the first day of July 1990.
REPEAL
3. Subject to the next succeeding section, the Parliamentary Salaries and Allowances Act 1988 is hereby repealed.
SAVING
4. Insofar as any salary or allowances may be lawfully due and owing to any person pursuant to the Parliamentary Salaries and Allowances Act 1988, that Act shall be deemed to remain in force for such time and to such extent only as shall be necessary to enable any such salary or allowances to be paid to such person.
ALLOWANCES TO MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT
5. (1) Every Member of Parliament shall be entitled to received a Member's allowance at the rate of eleven thousand seven hundred dollars per annum.
(2) Every Member of Parliament, other than the President, Ministers, the Speaker, the Deputy Speaker and any Minister acting as President, shall be entitled to receive an entertainment allowance at the rate of six percent per annum of Member's allowance provided in sub-section (1).
ALLOWANCES TO SPEAKER AND DEPUTY SPEAKER
6. (1) The Speaker shall be entitled to receive a Speaker's allowance at the rate of Nineteen thousand five hundred dollars per annum.
(2) The Speaker shall be entitled to receive an entertainment allowance at the rate of five percent per annum of the Speaker's allowance provided in sub-section (1).
(3) The Deputy Speaker shall be entitled to receive a Deputy Speaker's allowance at the rate of one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars per annum
(4) The Deputy Speaker shall be entitled to receive an entertainment allowance at the rate of twenty percent per annum of the Deputy Speaker's allowance provided in sub-section (3).
SALARY AND ALLOWANCES OF THE PRESIDENT
7. (1) The President shall be entitled to receive a salary at the rate of forty thousand nine hundred dollars per annum.
(2) The President is entitled to receive an entertainment allowance at the rate of twenty percent per annum of his salary provided for in subsection (1) of this section
(3) A Minister appointed to perform the duties and exercise the functions of the President is entitled during the period of his appointment to receive an acting allowance at the rate of twenty-five percent per annum of the salary of the President provided for in sub-section (1) of this section and an entertainment allowance at the rate of twenty-five percent per annum of such allowance payable to the President pursuant to sub-section (2) of this section.
SALARY OF THE MINISTERS
8. (1) A Minister is entitled to receive a salary at the rate of twenty seven thousand three hundred dollars per annum.
(2) A Minister is entitled to receive an entertainment allowance at the rate of six percent per annum of his salary provided for in subsection (1) of this section.
SALARIES AND ALLOWANCE UNDER SECTIONS 6, 7 AND 8 ADDITIONAL TO THOSE UNDER SECTION 5
9. The salaries and allowances provided for in section 6, 7 and 8 are in addition to those provided for in section 5 (1)
CHARGE ON THE TREASURY FUND
10. The amounts to which a person is entitled under this Act shall be paid from and are charged upon, the Treasury fund.
REVIEW OF SALARIES AND ALLOWANCES
11. The parliamentary salaries and allowances provided in this Act shall be the subject of review commencing before the end of June 1993 and thereafter, before the end of every succeeding period of three years.
REGULATIONS
12. Cabinet may from time to time make regulations to determine benefits, allowances and entitlements to Members of Parliament, the Speaker, the Deputy Speaker, the President and Ministers, other than the salaries and allowances provided herein.

I hereby certify that the above is a fair print of a Bill for an Act entitled Parliamentary Salaries and Allowances Act 1991 that has been passed by Parliament of Nauru, and is now presented to the Speaker for his Certificate under Article 47 of the Constitution.	Pursuant to Article 47 of the Constitution, I Derog Gioura, Speaker of Parliament hereby certify that the Parliamentary Salaries and Allowances Act 1991 has been passed by the Parliament of Nauru.	
Clerk of Parliament
31st October, 1991	Speaker
31st October, 1991