. Section 8(6) of the Commission Act stipulates that in arriving at its recommendations the Commission must take the following factors into account: "(6)(i) The role, status, duties, functions and responsibilities of the office-bearers concerned; ii) the affordability of different levels of remuneration of public office bearers; iii) current principles and levels of remuneration, particularly in respect of organs of state, and in society generally; iv) inflationary increases; v) the availability of resources of the State; and vi) any other factor which, in the opinion of the said Commission, is relevant". . The recommendations of the Commission must be published in the Gazette at least once a year in respect of each category of office-bearers and must be submitted to Parliament before publication (section 8(5) of the Commission Act). . In this regard, the Commission's annual recommendations must be submitted to Parliament before the publication thereof in the Gazette. In other words Parliament only needs to be informed about the Commission's recommendations and does not at this stage have to approve or disapprove thereof. However, it is at this point that Parliament has, through the Select Committee and the Portfolio Committee, an opportunity to formulate a view on the Commission's recommendations, which in turn must be relayed to the Executive before the President constructs the notice referred to in section 12(1)(a). . In this regard it should be noted that while Parliament may have received the Commission's recommendations before they were published in 2005 (and this we, to date, have not been able to establish), the Commission's proposals were not referred by the Presiding Officers to the relevant Committees for consideration and report. This may be simply because the Commission's recommendations were not officially relayed to Parliament. . The publication of the Commission's recommendations in the Gazette is done in addition with the intention to publicise its findings as widely as possible for public information. The publication of the recommendations of the Commission in the Gazette should not be confused with the publication of the President's notice in the Gazette to determine the salaries, allowances or benefits of magistrates. . The Commission then makes recommendations to the President for his or her consideration as to the salaries, allowances and benefits magistrates are entitled to following the Commission's investigation (section 12(1)(a)(i) of the Magistrates Act).