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262: Environment Court members who are ratepayers
or “People who help make decisions about the environment can still do their job even if they pay local taxes.”
You could also call this:

“Money and travel expenses paid to people who help the environment court”

The law says that Environment Commissioners and Deputy Environment Commissioners will be paid for their work. The Remuneration Authority decides how much they get paid. This could be a salary, a fee, or an allowance. They also get extra money for things like travel expenses.

The government can use money to pay these salaries, fees, or allowances without needing extra permission.

Special advisors also get paid for their work. The money for this comes from Parliament. They get a salary, fee, or allowance, plus money for travel.

For travel allowances and expenses, the law treats Environment Commissioners, Deputy Environment Commissioners, and special advisors like they are members of a statutory Board. This is explained in the Fees and Travelling Allowances Act 1951.

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or “Every year, the Environment Court's manager writes a report about how the court is doing and gives it to the government.”
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Part 11 Environment Court
Miscellaneous provisions relating to court

263Remuneration of Environment Commissioners, Deputy Environment Commissioners, and special advisors

  1. Each Environment Commissioner and Deputy Environment Commissioner—

  2. must be paid a salary, or a fee, or an allowance, at the rate determined by the Remuneration Authority; and
    1. must be paid any additional allowances (including travelling allowances and expenses) in accordance with the Fees and Travelling Allowances Act 1951.

      1. Expenses may be incurred, without further appropriation than this section, to meet the salaries, fees, or allowances determined under subsection (1)(a).

      2. Each special advisor must be paid, out of money appropriated by Parliament for the purpose, remuneration by way of a salary, a fee, or an allowance, and travelling allowances and expenses, in accordance with the Fees and Travelling Allowances Act 1951.

      3. For the purposes of subsections (1)(b) and (3), the Fees and Travelling Allowances Act 1951 applies as if each Environment Commissioner, Deputy Environment Commissioner, and special advisor were a member of a statutory Board as defined in section 2 of that Act.

      Notes
      • Section 263: replaced, on , by section 28 of the Remuneration Authority Legislation Act 2022 (2022 No 74).