Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland
2005 No. 489
SALARIES
Salaries (Comptroller and Auditor General) (No. 2) Order (Northern Ireland) 2005
Made
3rd November 2005
To be laid before Parliament under paragraph 7(3) of the Schedule to the Northern Ireland Act 2000
Coming into operation
30th December 2005
In exercise of the powers conferred by Article 4(1) of the Audit (Northern Ireland) Order 1987(1) and of all other powers enabling me in that behalf, I hereby make the following Order:
Title and commencement
1. This Order may be cited as the Salaries (Comptroller and Auditor General) (No. 2) Order (Northern Ireland) 2005 and shall come into operation on 30th December 2005.
Revocation
2. The Salaries (Comptroller and Auditor General) Order (Northern Ireland) 2005(2) is hereby revoked.
Salary
3. The annual salary payable to the holder of the office of Comptroller and Auditor General shall be increased from £122,435 to £126,108 with effect from 1st April 2005.
Peter Hain
One of Her Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State
Northern Ireland Office
3rd November 2005
Explanatory Note
(This note is not part of the Order.)
This Order provides for an increase in the annual salary payable to the Comptroller and Auditor General following recommendations made in the Report of the Review Body on Senior Salaries in 2005 (HMSO CM 6451).
The increase is made with effect from 1st April 2005 under Article 4(1) of the Audit (Northern Ireland) Order 1987.
Article 2 revokes the Salaries (Comptroller and Auditor General) Order (Northern Ireland) 2005 SR 11/05, which took effect from 1st April 2004.
S.I. 1987/460 (N.I. 5); Article 4(1) is modified by paragraph 11(3) of the Schedule to the Northern Ireland Act 2000 (c. 1) while section 1 (suspension of devolved government) of that Act is in force.