MINISTERS OF STATE.

No. 68 of 1947.

An Act to amend the Ministers of State Act 1935–1946.

[Assented to 4th December, 1947.]

BE it enacted by the King’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, for the purpose of appropriating the grant originated in the House of Representatives, as follows:—

Short title and citation.

1.—(1.) This Act may be cited as the Ministers of State Act 1947.

(2.) The Ministers of State Act 1935–1946, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Ministers of State Act 1935–1947.

Commencement.

2. This Act shall be deemed to have come into operation on the first day of July, One thousand nine hundred and forty-seven.

Salaries of Ministers.

3. Section four of the Ministers of State Act 1935–1946 is amended by omitting the words “Twenty-one thousand two hundred and fifty pounds” and inserting in their stead the words “Twenty-seven thousand six hundred and fifty pounds.”.