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of the base salary of $233,660, rounded up to the nearest $10.

      2.4 For Shadow Ministers, the following rules apply:

            2.4.1 An amount is determined for paragraph 14(3)(b) of the PBR Act for a Shadow Minister only if:
                a. the Shadow Minister is a person specified in a notice given to the paying authority by the Leader of the Opposition as a person to whom
                clause 2.4.2 applies or a person to whom clause 2.4.3 applies; and
                b. the Shadow Minister does not hold another office for which the office holder's salary is more than 25% of the base salary.

            2.4.2 For the following persons, and in the following circumstances, the amount is 25% of the base salary:
                a. the person is specified in the notice as a person to whom this clause applies;

                b. the number of persons specified in the notice as persons to whom this clause applies does not exceed:

                A – B

                where

                A = the number of Ministerial positions determined by the Government at the relevant time to be Ministerial positions of Cabinet rank

                B = the number of parliamentarians who are members of the Opposition and hold an office other than Shadow Minister for which the office holder's salary is more than 25% of the base salary.

            2.4.3 For the following persons, and in the following circumstances, the amount is 20% of the base salary:

                a. the person is specified in the notice as a person to whom this clause applies;

                b. the number of persons specified in the notice as persons to whom this clause applies does not exceed:

                A – B – C

                where

                A = the number of Ministers specified in paragraph 4(b) of the Ministers of State Act 1952
                B = the number of Shadow Ministers to whom clause 2.4.2 applies C = the number of parliamentarians who are members of the
                Opposition and hold an office other than Shadow Minister for which the office holder's salary is more than 25% of the base salary.

            2.4.4 If a Shadow Minister is a person for whom an amount is determined under clause 2.4.1, clause 2.3 does not apply in relation to any other office the person holds.

            Note: A Shadow Minister who also holds another office will not receive the salary for both.

      2.5 For each office holder the annual amount of office holder's salary is to be rounded up to the nearest $10.

  Portion of salary to be disregarded for certain superannuation purposes

      2.6 For paragraph 45(3)(b) of the PBR Act, the portion of office holder's salary that is not allowance by way of salary for the purposes of the Parliamentary Contributory Superannuation Act 1948 is 20%.

  Ministerial salary: superannuation