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13Remuneration arrangementsU.K.

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(1)Before a person is appointed as Comptroller and Auditor General, remuneration arrangements are to be made in relation to the person jointly by the Prime Minister and the person who chairs the Committee of Public Accounts.

(2)The remuneration arrangements—

(a)may make provision for a salary, allowances, arrangements for a pension and other benefits, and

(b)may include a formula or other mechanism for adjusting one or more of those elements from time to time.

(3)But no element is to be performance-based.

(4)The arrangements may in particular make provision for the principal civil service pension scheme (as defined in section 2(10) of the Superannuation Act 1972) to apply to service as Comptroller and Auditor General as if it were service in employment in the civil service of the State.

(5)Amounts payable by virtue of this section are to be charged on, and paid out of, the Consolidated Fund.

(6)The Treasury may by statutory instrument make regulations for purposes supplementary to this section so far as it relates to arrangements for pensions.

(7)Regulations under subsection (6) may provide for a statutory provision not to apply, or to apply with modifications, in relation to arrangements for a pension payable to the Comptroller and Auditor General, including, in a case where provision within subsection (4) has been made, for the principal civil service pension scheme to apply with modifications.

(8)A statutory instrument containing regulations under subsection (6) is subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of the House of Commons.

Commencement Information

I1S. 13 in force at 1.1.2012 by S.I. 2011/2576, art. 3(a) (with art. 4)

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