Salaries (Assembly Ombudsman and Commissioner for Complaints) Order (Northern Ireland) 2002

Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

2002 No. 320

SALARIES

Salaries (Assembly Ombudsman and Commissioner for Complaints) Order (Northern Ireland) 2002

Made

17th October 2002

Coming into operation

21st November 2002

The Office of the First Minister and deputy First Minister, in exercise of the powers conferred 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 now vested in it(3) 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) 2002 and shall come into operation on 21st November 2002.

Revocation

2.  The Salaries (Assembly Ombudsman and Commissioner for Complaints) Order (Northern Ireland) 2001(4) is hereby revoked.

Increase in Salaries

3.  The annual salaries payable to the Assembly Ombudsman and the Commissioner for Complaints shall be increased from £96,416 to £100,755 from 1st April 2002.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Office of the First Minister and deputy First Minister on 17th October 2002.

L.S.

Dorothy Angus

A senior officer of the Office of the First Minister and deputy First Minister

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order.)

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

This provision is made with retrospective effect from 1st April 2002 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) 2001.

(3)

By S.R. 1999 No. 481 Article 7 and Schedule 5