SALARY OF AUDITOR-GENERAL

3.27 p.m.

The Minister for Finance (Mr Hon Sui Sen): Mr Speaker, Sir, I beg to move the Motion* standing in my name as it appears on the Order Paper.

*The Motion reads as follows:

That this Parliament, pursuant to subsection (4) of section 3 of the Audit Act (Chapter 60), resolves that the personal salary of the holder of the office of Auditor-General, with effect from 1st April, 1982, be $9,500 per month, instead of $7,500 per month which is the salary attached to that office.

In line with the salary adjustments for the Superscale Officers in the Civil Service, I am proposing that the salary of the present holder of the post of Auditor-General, who is now drawing a basic salary of $6,490 per month personal to himself, be adjusted to $9,500 per month. This salary of $9,500 per month takes into account his basic salary of $6,490 and the NWC wage supplements for the years 1978, 1979, 1980 and 1981, amounting to $2,879.92.

Sir, I beg to move.

Question put, and agreed to.

Resolved,

That this Parliament, pursuant to subsection (4) of section 3 of the Audit Act (Chapter 60), resolves that the personal salary of the holder of the office of Auditor-General, with effect from 1st April, 1982, be $9,500 per month, instead of $7,500 per month which is the salary attached to that office.