MINISTERS OF STATE.

No. 24 of 1941.

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

[Assented to 26th June, 1941.]

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 1941.

(2.) The Ministers of State Act 1935–1938, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Ministers of State Act 1935–1941.

Commencement.

2. This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

3. After section five of the Ministers of State Act 1935–1938 the following section is added:—

Special provision during war.

“6. Notwithstanding anything contained in sections three and four of this Act, during the continuance in operation of the National Security Act 1939–1940—

(a) the number of Ministers of State may exceed eleven but shall not exceed nineteen; and

(b) 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, in lieu of the sum specified in section four of this Act, an annual sum up to but not exceeding Twenty-one thousand two hundred and fifty pounds.”.