6—(1) The Assembly Commission must by order determine the salary payable to the Ombudsman.N.I.
(2) An order under sub-paragraph (1) may provide for the salary determined by the order to be payable from such date, whether before or after the making of the order, as may be specified in the order.
(3) The salary must not exceed the maximum salary for the time being payable to any person employed in the civil service of Northern Ireland.
(4) The salary must be charged on, and issued out of, the Consolidated Fund.
(5) The salary must be abated by the amount of any pension payable in respect of any public office, in the United Kingdom or elsewhere, to which the Ombudsman had previously been appointed or elected.