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Governor-General Act 2010

Provisions relating to remuneration, programme funding, and other payments concerning office of Governor-General - Salary, allowance, annuity, and other payments

8: Annuity for former Governor-General

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"Payment for former Governors-General"

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You might get an annuity if you used to be the Governor-General. This is a special payment you get every year. The Remuneration Authority decides how much you get. If you were the Governor-General for less than 2 years, you get a yearly payment. The amount is decided by the Remuneration Authority. You start getting the payment 6 months after you stop being the Governor-General. If you were the Governor-General for 2 years or more, you get a payment for each complete year. You can get this payment for up to 5 years. The Remuneration Authority decides the amount, and you can find out more about how this works by looking at Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019. The payment starts 6 months after you stop being the Governor-General. The amount you get can change over time, and the Remuneration Authority decides when these changes happen.

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Part 1Provisions relating to remuneration, programme funding, and other payments concerning office of Governor-General
Salary, allowance, annuity, and other payments

8Annuity for former Governor-General

  1. This section applies to a person who has held the office of Governor-General.

  2. If a person to whom this section applies held office as Governor-General for a total period of less than 2 complete years, he or she must be paid an annuity at a yearly rate determined from time to time by the Remuneration Authority.

  3. If a person to whom this section applies held office as Governor-General for a total period of 2 complete years or more, he or she must be paid an annuity at a yearly rate, determined from time to time by the Remuneration Authority, for each complete year (not exceeding 5 years) of that total period.

  4. The annuity is payable from the date that is 6 months after the date on which the person ceased to hold office as Governor-General.

  5. A determination made under this section comes into force on the date specified in the determination, which may be a date that is before, on, or after the date the determination is made.

  6. A determination under this section is secondary legislation (see Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019 for publication requirements).

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  • Section 8(6): replaced, on , by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).