Salaries (Assembly Ombudsman and Commissioner for Complaints) Order (Northern Ireland) 1998

Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

1998 No. 181

SALARIES

Salaries (Assembly Ombudsman and Commissioner for Complaints) Order (Northern Ireland) 1998

Made

13th May 1998

Coming into operation

3rd June 1998

The Department of Finance and Personnel, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Article 5(1) and (2) of the Ombudsman (Northern Ireland) Order 1996(1) and Article 4(1) and (2) of the Commissioner for Complaints (Northern Ireland) Order 1996(2) and of all other powers enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:

Title and commencement

1.  This order may be cited as the Salaries (Assembly Ombudsman and Commissioner for Complaints) Order (Northern Ireland) 1998 and shall come into operation on 3rd June 1998.

Revocation

2.  The Salaries (Assembly Ombudsman and Commissioner for Complaints) Order (Northern Ireland) 1997(3) is hereby revoked.

Increase in Salaries

3.  The annual salaries payable to the Assembly Ombudsman and the Commissioner for Complaints shall be increased as follows—

(a) from £76,629 to £78,162 from 1st April 1998,

(b) from £78,162 to £80,460 from 1st December 1998.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Finance and Personnel on

L.S.

C. P. Moore

Assistant Secretary

13th May 1998.

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order.)

This Order provides for increases in the annual salaries payable to the Assembly Ombudsman for Northern Ireland and the Northern Ireland Commissioner for Complaints.

These increases are made with retrospective effect from 1st April 1998 and from 1st December 1998 under Article 5(2) of the Ombudsman (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 and Article 4(2) of the Commissioner for Complaints (Northern Ireland) Order 1996.

Article 2 revokes the Salaries (Assembly Ombudsman and Commissioner for Complaints) Order (Northern Ireland) 1997.

(1)

S.I. 1996/1298 (N.I. 8)

(2)

S.I. 1996/1297 (N.I. 7)

(3)

S.R. 1997 No. 224