MINISTERS OF STATE.

No. 73 of 1946.

An Act to amend the Ministers of State Act 1935-1941.

[Assented to 14th December, 1946.]

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 1946.

(2.) The Ministers of State Act 1935-1941 is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.

(3.) The Principal Act, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Ministers of State Act 1935-1946.

Commencement.

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

3. Section three of the Principal Act is repealed and the following section inserted in its stead:—

Number of Ministers.

“3. The number of Ministers of State shall not exceed nineteen.”.

Salaries of Ministers.

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

Special provision during war.

5. Section six of the Principal Act is repealed.