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Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

2016 No. 35

Salaries

The Salaries (Assembly Ombudsman and Commissioner for Complaints) Order (Northern Ireland) 2016

Made

10th February 2016

Coming into operation

3rd March 2016

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) 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) 2016 and shall have effect from 1st April 2015.

Revocation

2.  The Salaries (Assembly Ombudsman and Commissioner for Complaints) Order (Northern Ireland 2015(4) is revoked.

Increase in Salaries

3.  The annual full time rate of salaries payable to the Assembly Ombudsman and the Commissioner for Complaints shall be increased from £130,875 to £132,184 from 1st April 2015.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Office of the First Minister and deputy First Minister on 10th February 2016.

Legal seal

Stephen Boyd

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 2015 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) 2015.

(3)

By SR 1999 No.481 Article 7 and Schedule 5