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General Wage Increase Act 2001

SAMOA

GENERAL WAGE INCREASE (PUBLIC OFFICEHOLDERS AND PUBLIC SERVANTS) ACT 2001

Arrangement of Provisions

1. Short title and commencement
2. Increase in Wage or Salary for Public Officeholders and Public Servants

Schedule

GENERAL WAGE INCREASE (PUBLIC OFFICEHOLDERS AND PUBLIC SERVANTS) ACT 2001

2001 No. 2

AN ACT to provide for a General Wage Increase for Public Officeholders and Public Servants.

[Assent date: 24 January 2001]
[Commencement date: 1 January 2001]

BE IT ENACTED by the Legislative Assembly of Samoa in Parliament assembled as follows:

1. Short title and commencement – (l) This Act may be cited as the General Wage Increase (Public Officeholders and Public Servants) Act 2001.
(2) This Act comes into force on 1 January 2001.

2. Increase in Wage or Salary for Public Officeholders and Public Servants – (l) Despite any other Act, Regulation, Order or Direction, the wage or salary or remuneration, as the case may be, for each Public Officeholder and Public Servant referred to in the Schedule shall be increased by 5% as from 1 January 2001.
(2) If, in an Act, Regulation, Order or Direction, the wage or salary or remuneration, as the case may be, for the Officeholders and Public Servants referred to in the Schedule is identified as a nominated amount the relevant Act, Regulation, Order or Direction is amended accordingly so that the nominated wage or salary or remuneration, as the case may be, is increased by 5%.
(3) For the purpose of avoiding any uncertainty the 5% increase referred to in subsection (1) does not apply to any allowances or other supplemental payments.

SCHEDULE
(Section 2)

Position Act, Regulation, Order or Direction

1.Head of State Article 22, Constitution of Samoa (“the Constitution”) and Section 7, Head of State Act 1965

2.Members of the Article 25, Constitution and

Council of Deputies Section 16, Head of State Act 1965

3. Prime Minister, Article 35, Constitution and

Deputy Prime Minister sections 3, 4 and 16 of the Civil

and Cabinet Ministers List Act 1964

4. Speaker of the House, Sections 7, 8, 9 and 16 of Civil

Deputy Speakerand List Act 1964

Leader of the Opposition

5. Parliamentary Under- Sections 7, 10 and 16 of Civil

Secretaries, Chairs of the List Act 1964

Public Accounts and Bills

Committees and Members

of Parliament

6. Chief Justice and Judges of Article 69, Constitution and

the Supreme Court and District section 29, Judicature

Court Ordinance 1961

7. Judges and Assessors, Land Section 32, Land and Titles Act

and Titles Court 1981

8.Controller and Chief Auditor Article 98, Constitution and section 9, Audit Office Ordinance 1961

9. Attorney General Article 41, Constitution
   

10.Ombudsman Section 7, Komesina o Sulufaiga (Ombudsman) Act 1988

11. Commissioner of Police, Sections 15 and 51, Police

Prisons and Fire Service Service Act 1977, Sections 14

and Members of the Police and 23, Prisons Act 1977 and

Service, Prison Service Schedule 1, Police Service Reg-

and Fire Service ulation 1970 and Schedule 2, Prisons Regulation 1954

12. Clerk of the Legislative Order 167, Standing Orders of

Assembly of Samoa Deputy the Parliament of Samoa

Clerk and staff of the

Legislative Department

13Heads of Departments Section 9, all officeholders

referred to in Schedule 1, and

14.Public Servants section 2, Second Schedule of the Public Service (Special Posts) Act 1989

15. Members of the following

Committees and Boards:

(a)Treasury Advisory By direction of the Financial

Committee Secretary

(b)Agriculture Advisory Section 13, Agriculture, Forests

and Technical Committee and Fisheries Ordinance 1959

(c)Public Works Advisory Section 13, Public Works Ord-

Committee inance 1959

(d)Women’s Affairs Advisory Sections 11 and 16, Ministry of

Committee Women Affairs Act 1990

(e)Internal Affairs Executive Section 10, Internal Affairs Act

Committee 1995

(f)Transport Control Board Section 51 and 53A, Road Traffic Ordinance 1960

(g)Trade, Commerce and Industry Section 5, Trade, Commerce

Development Board and Industry Act 1990

(h)Statistics Advisory Board Sections 4 and 9, Statistics Act 1971

(i)Government Tenders Board Regulation38,Treasury Regulation 1965

(j)National Revenue Board Sections 3 and 10, National Revenue Board Act 1990

REVISION NOTES 2008 – 2013

This is the official version of this Act as at 31 December 2013.
This Act has been revised by the Legislative Drafting Division in 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013 under the authority of the Attorney General given under the Revision and Publication of Laws Act 2008.

The following general revisions have been made:

(a) Amendments have been made to conform to modern drafting styles and to use modern language as applied in the laws of Samoa.
(b) Amendments have been made to up-date references to offices, officers and statutes.
(c) Insertion of the commencement date
(d) Other minor editing has been done in accordance with the lawful powers of the Attorney General.

The empowering provision for the Schedule has been inserted.

There were no amendments made to this Act since the publication of the Consolidated and Revised Statutes of Samoa 2007.

This Act is administered by
the Ministry of Finance