Salaries (Assembly Ombudsman and Commissioner for Complaints) Order (Northern Ireland) 1997

Made: 24th April 1997

Coming into operation: 15th May 1997

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[^f00001] and Article 4(1) and (2) of the Commissioner for Complaints (Northern Ireland) Order 1996[^f00002] 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) 1997 and shall come into operation on 15th May 1997.

Revocation

2

The Salaries (Assembly Ombudsman and Commissioner for Complaints) Order (Northern Ireland) 1996[^f00003] 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 £72,980 to £74,440 from 1st April 1997,

• (b) from £74,440 to £76,629 from 1st December 1997.

Signed

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

C. P. Moore — Assistant Secretary — 24th April 1997.

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 1997 and from 1st December 1997 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) 1996.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: S.I. 1996/1298 (N.I. 8)

[^f00002]: S.I. 1996/1297 (N.I. 7)

[^f00003]: S.R. 1996 No. 522