9 Rate of remuneration [see Notes 2 and 3]
(1) Subject to this section, the provisions of Division 6 of Part III of the Public Service Act relating to the reduction in, or suspension of, remuneration payable to an officer, the Commonwealth Employees (Redeployment and Retirement) Act 1979 and to any law providing for a reduction in the remuneration payable to officers of the Australian Public Service generally, the rate of remuneration of a State employee appointed or engaged under this Act shall, while he or she continues in the Australian Public Service, be not less favourable than that to which, in the opinion of the Board, he or she would have been entitled in respect of the normal position which he or she occupied as a State employee immediately before his or her appointment or engagement under this Act.
(2) Where, by virtue of subsection (1), the remuneration to which a person is entitled would or might be increased by reason of an increment of salary in respect of the normal position which he or she occupied as a State employee, his or her entitlement to the increase is subject to the provisions which, under subsections 31(4), (5) and (6), of the Public Service Act, apply to increments of salary referred to in subsection 31(1) of that Act.
(3) In this section, remuneration means salary or pay and includes such allowances as, in the opinion of the Board, should be regarded as having formed part of the salary or pay of the officer or employee in his or her normal position as a State employee.