MINISTERS OF STATE.

No. 35 of 1935.

An Act to increase the maximum number of Ministers of State from nine to ten and to appropriate an amount for their salaries.

[Assented to 3rd October, 1935.]

BE it enacted by the King’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:—

Short title.

1. This Act may be cited as the Ministers of State Act 1935.

Repeal.

2. The Acts specified in the first column of the Schedule to this Act are repealed to the extent respectively specified in the second column of that Schedule.

Number of Ministers.

3. The number of Ministers of State may exceed seven but shall not exceed ten.

Salaries of Ministers.

4. There shall be payable to the King, out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund of the Commonwealth, which is hereby appropriated accordingly, for the salaries of the Ministers of State, an annual sum up to but not exceeding Thirteen thousand five hundred and sixty pounds.

Section 2. THE SCHEDULE.