MINISTERS OF STATE.

No. 1 of 1956.

An Act to amend the Ministers of State Act 1952.

[Assented to 24th February, 1956.]

BE it enacted by the Queen’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 1956.

(2.) The Ministers of State Act 1952 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 1952–1956.

Commencement.

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

Number of Ministers.

3. Section four of the Principal Act is amended by omitting the word “twenty” and inserting in its stead the word “twenty-two”.

Salaries of Ministers.

4. Section five of the Principal Act is amended by omitting the words “Forty-one thousand pounds” and inserting in their stead the words “Forty-six thousand five hundred pounds”.