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Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

2007 No. 255

lands tribunal

Lands Tribunal (Salaries) Order (Northern Ireland) 2007

Made

20th April 2007

Coming into operation

1st June 2007

To be laid before Parliament under paragraph 7(3) of the Schedule to the Northern Ireland Act 2000

The Department of Finance and Personnel, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 2(5) of the Lands Tribunal and Compensation Act (Northern Ireland) 1964(1) and section 18 of the Administrative and Financial Provisions Act (Northern Ireland) 1962(2) and now vested in it (3) makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Lands Tribunal (Salaries) Order (Northern Ireland) 2007 and shall come into operation on 1 June 2007.

Revocation

2.  The Lands Tribunal (Salaries) Order (Northern Ireland) 2006(4) is revoked.

Increases in salaries

3.—(1) The annual salary payable to the President of the Lands Tribunal shall be increased as follows —

(a)from £120,300 to £122,105 from 1st April 2007;

(b)from £122,105 to £123,200 from 1st November 2007.

(2) The annual salary payable to any other member of the Lands Tribunal shall be increased as follows —

(a)from £114,400 to £116,116 from 1st April 2007;

(b)from £116,116 to £116,700 from 1st November 2007.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Finance and Personnel on 20th April 2007

Legal seal

Chris Thompson

A senior officer of the Department of Finance and Personnel

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order provides for changes in the annual salaries payable to members of the Lands Tribunal for Northern Ireland following recommendations made in the Report of the Review Body on Senior Salaries in 2007 (HMSO CM 7030).

It increases, with effect from 1st April 2007, under section 18 of the Administrative and Financial Provisions Act (Northern Ireland) 1962, the annual salary of the President of the Lands Tribunal and all other members of the Tribunal.

The increases take effect in two stages. The first increases apply in relation to the period from 1st April to 31st October 2007. The salaries are then further increased with effect from 1st November 2007.

Article 2 revokes the Lands Tribunal (Salaries) Order (Northern Ireland) 2006.

(3)

By Article 4 of the Northern Ireland Act 1998 (Modifications of Enactments) Order 2002; see also Article 10 of that Order