Government Gazette

Vol. 413, No. 20622, 19 November 1999

Regulation Gazette, No. 6673

No. R. 112, 1999

PROCLAMATION

by the President of the Republic of South Africa

 SALARIES AND ALLOWANCES OF MEMBERS OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY AND PERMANENT DELEGATES TO THE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF PROVINCES

In terms of section 3 (1) of the Remuneration of Public Office Bearers Act, 1998 (Act No. 20 of 1998) ("the Remuneration Act"), I hereby determine that the annual salaries and allowances of the various grades of members and office bearers of Parliament specified in Column 1 of the Schedule shall be as set out in Column 2 of the Schedule with effect from 1 April 1999, subject to section 3 (6) (a) and (b) of the Remuneration Act.

In terms of section 3 (3) of the Remuneration Act, I determine the amount of R40 000 per annum as that portion of the remuneration of a member or office bearer of Parliament to which section 8 (1) (d) of the Income Tax Act, 1962 (Act No. 58 of 1962), shall apply.

In this Proclamation, unless the context indicates otherwise, any word or expression to which a meaning has been assigned in the Remuneration Act, the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996, or the relevant Rules and Orders contemplated in sections 45, 57 or 70 of the Constitution, bears that meaning.

Proclamation No. 79 of 1998, published in the Government Gazette of 14 August 1998, is hereby repealed.

Given under my Hand and the Seal of,the Republic of South Africa at Cape Town this Seventeenth day of November, One thousand Nine hundred and Ninety-nine.

T. M. MBEKI
President

By Order of the President-in-Cabinet:

T. A. MANUEL
Minister of the Cabinet

SCHEDULE

GRADING STRUCTURE, REMUNERATION AND ALLOWANCES OF MEMBERS OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY AND PERMANENT DELEGATES TO THE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF PROVINCES

COLUMN 1

COLUMN 2
Grade Office Basic salary in Rand per annum* Motor vehicle allowance in Rand per annum Total remuneration in Rand per annum
Grade F ........ Speaker: National Assembly
Chairperson: National Council of Provinces (NCOP)
414 228 103 557 517 785
Grade E1 ...... Deputy Speaker: National Assembly
Deputy Chairperson: NCOP ................................
336 678 84 170 420 848
Grade E2 ...... Parliamentary Counsellor: President
Chief Whip: Majority Party in National Assembly; .
Chief Whip of NCOP;
Leader of the Opposition in terms of section 57 (2) (d) of the Constitution

288 613

72 153

360 766
Grade D ........ Parliamentary Counsellor: Deputy President ......... 274210 68 553 342 763
Grade C1 ...... Chairperson of a Committee of a House or a Joint Committee
Chairperson of Committees .................................
265 707 66 427 332 134
Grade C2 ...... Chief Whip: Official Opposition/Largest Minority Party in a House
Deputy Chief Whip: Majority Party in a House .....
Deputy Chairperson of Committees
 

257 509

 

64 377

 

321 886

Grade B ........ Leader of a House
Whip in a House ..................................................
Leader of a Minority Party other than the Official Opposition


247 151


61 788

308 939
Grade A1 ...... Member of the National Assembly
Permanent Delegate to the NCOP .......................

219 840

54 960 274 800

Includes the amount of R40 000 per annum determined in this Proclamation as the amount to which section 8 (1) (d) of the Income Tax Act, 1962, applies.