Section 3: Committee.

(1) There is hereby established a committee to be known as the State Salaries Committee, which shall be responsible, subject to section 5, for assessing for determination by Parliament, the salaries of the Speaker, Deputy Speaker, Members of Parliament and of the other persons referred to in the Schedule whose salaries and other conditions of service are required to be prescribed or determined, as the case may be, by Parliament under the provisions of the Constitution set out in the Schedule. (2) The Committee shall consist of the following members:-- a) the Speaker of Parliament, who shall be chairman; b) the parliamentary leaders of all political parties in Parliament; c) one Paramount Chief Member of Parliament; d) one independent Member of Parliament, if any; e) the Minister responsible for finance or his representative, ex-officio; and f) the Minister responsible for labour and industrial relations or his representative, ex-officio. (3) Every question before-a meeting of the Committee shall be determined by a simple majority of the votes of the members present and where there is an equality of votes, the chairman or the person presiding shall have a second or casting vote. (4) The Clerk of Parliament shall be Secretary to the Committee. Criteria to guide