SAMOA

GENERAL WAGE INCREASE (PUBLIC OFFICEHOLDERS AND PUBLIC SERVANTS) ACT 2001

Arrangement of Provisions

1.	 Short title and commencement
2.	Increase in Wage or Salary for Public Officeholders and Public Servants
Schedule

		

GENERAL WAGE INCREASE (PUBLIC OFFICEHOLDERS AND PUBLIC SERVANTS) ACT 2001
2001							No. 2

AN ACT to provide for a General Wage Increase for Public Officeholders and Public Servants.
[Assent date: 24 January 2001]
[Commencement date: 1 January 2001]

BE IT ENACTED by the Legislative Assembly of Samoa in Parliament assembled as follows:

1. Short title and commencement– (l) This Act may be cited as the General Wage Increase (Public Officeholders and Public Servants) Act 2001.
(2) This Act comes into force on 1 January 2001.

2. Increase in Wage or Salary for Public Officeholders and PublicServants– (l)Despite any other Act, Regulation, Order or Direction, the wage or salary orremuneration, as the case may be, for each Public Officeholder and Public Servant referred to in the Schedule shall be increased by 5% as from 1 January 2001.
(2)If, in an Act, Regulation, Order or Direction, the wage or salary or remuneration, as the case may be, for the Officeholders and Public Servants referred to in the Schedule is identified as a nominated amount the relevant Act, Regulation, Order or Direction is amended accordingly so that the nominated wage or salary or remuneration, as the case may be, is increased by 5%.
(3) For the purpose of avoiding any uncertainty the 5% increase referred to in subsection (1) does not apply to any allowances or other supplemental payments.

SCHEDULE
(Section 2)

Position	Act, Regulation, Order or Direction

1.Head of State	Article 22, Constitution of Samoa (“the Constitution”) and Section 7, Head of State Act 1965

2.Members of the 	Article 25, Constitution and 
Council of Deputies	Section 16, Head of State Act 1965

3.	Prime Minister, 			Article 35, Constitution and 
Deputy Prime Minister 		sections 3, 4 and 16 of the Civil 
and Cabinet Ministers			List Act 1964

4.	Speaker of the House, 		Sections 7, 8, 9 and 16 of Civil
Deputy Speakerand 			List Act 1964
Leader of the Opposition

5.	Parliamentary Under-			Sections 7, 10 and 16 of Civil 
Secretaries, Chairs of the 		List Act 1964
Public Accounts and Bills 
Committees and Members 
of Parliament

6.	Chief Justice and Judges of 		Article 69, Constitution and 
the Supreme Court and District		section 29, Judicature 
Court				Ordinance 1961

7.	Judges and Assessors, Land		Section 32, Land and Titles Act
and Titles Court			1981
8. Controller and Auditor General, Assistant Auditor and all officers and employees of the Audit Office.	Article 97 of the Constitution, and section 11 of the Audit Act 2013.”.	

9.	Attorney General			Article 41, Constitution

10.Ombudsman	Section 7, Komesina o Sulufaiga (Ombudsman) Act 1988

11.	Commissioner of Police,		Sections 15 and 51, Police 
Prisons and Fire Service		Service Act 1977, Sections 14
and Members of the Police		and 23, Prisons Act 1977 and 
Service, Prison Service			Schedule 1, Police Service Reg-
and Fire Service	ulation 1970 and Schedule 2, Prisons Regulation 1954

12.	Clerk of the Legislative 		Order 167, Standing Orders of 
Assembly of Samoa Deputy		the Parliament of Samoa
Clerk and staff of the 
Legislative Department

13Heads of Departments	Section 9, all officeholders
referred to in Schedule 1, and
14.Public Servants	section 2, Second Schedule of the Public Service (Special Posts) Act 1989

15.	Members of the following 
Committees and Boards:
(a)Treasury Advisory		By direction of the Financial 
Committee			Secretary
(b)Agriculture Advisory 		Section 13, Agriculture, Forests
and Technical Committee	and Fisheries Ordinance 1959
(c)Public Works Advisory	Section 13, Public Works Ord-
Committee			inance 1959
(d)Women’s Affairs Advisory	Sections 11 and 16, Ministry of
Committee			Women Affairs Act 1990
(e)Internal Affairs Executive	Section 10, Internal Affairs Act
Committee			1995
(f)Transport Control Board	Section 51 and 53A, Road Traffic Ordinance 1960
(g)Trade, Commerce and Industry	Section 5, Trade, Commerce
Development Board		and Industry Act 1990
(h)Statistics Advisory Board	Sections 4 and 9, Statistics Act 1971
(i)Government Tenders Board	Regulation38,Treasury Regulation 1965
(j)National Revenue Board	Sections 3 and 10, National Revenue Board Act 1990
		
REVISION NOTES 2008 – 2014
This is the official version of this Act as at 31 December 2014.
This Act has been revised by the Legislative Drafting Division from 2008 to 2014respectively under the authority of the Attorney General given under the Revision and Publication of Laws Act 2008.

The following general revisions have been made:
(a)	Amendments have been made to conform to modern drafting styles and to use modern language as applied in the laws of Samoa.
(b)	Amendments have been made to up-date references to offices, officers and statutes.
(c)	Insertion of the commencement date
(d)	Other minor editing has been done in accordance with the lawful powers of the Attorney General.

The empowering provision for the Schedule has been inserted.

The following amendment was made to this Act by the Audit Act 2013, No.22:

Clause 8 of the Schedule		substituted

This Act is administered by
the Ministry of Finance