MINISTERS OF STATE.

No. 44 of 1938.

An Act to amend the Ministers of State Act 1935-1938.

[Assented to 24th November, 1938.]

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 and citation.

1.—(1.) This Act may be cited as the Ministers of State Act 1938.

(2.) Section one of the Parliamentary Salaries Adjustment Act 1938* is amended by omitting sub-section (3.).

(3.) The Ministers of State Act 1935-1936,† as amended by the Parliamentary Salaries Adjustment Act 1938, is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.

(4.) The Principal Act, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Ministers of State Act 1935-1938.

Commencement.

2. This Act shall be deemed to have come into operation on the seventh day of November, One thousand nine hundred and thirty-eight.

Number of Ministers.

3. Section three of the Principal Act is amended by omitting the word “ten” and inserting in its stead the word “eleven”.

Salaries of Ministers.

4. Section four of the Principal Act is amended by omitting the words “Sixteen thousand nine hundred and fifty pounds” and inserting in their stead the words “Eighteen thousand six hundred pounds”.