MINISTERS OF STATE.

No. 18 of 1959.

An Act to amend the Ministers of State Act 1952-1956.

[Assented to 23rd April, 1959.]

BE it enacted by the Queen’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 1959.

(2.) The Ministers of State Act 1952-1956 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 1952-1959.

Commencement.

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

Salaries of Ministers.

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

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 Section seven of the Principal Act is repealed and the following section inserted in its stead:—

Additional allowance to Ministers.

“7.—(1.) There is payable to each of such Ministers of State (other than the Prime Minister) as the Prime Minister determines, but not exceeding eleven in number, an allowance, in addition to his salary, at the rate of One thousand five hundred pounds a year.

“(2.) There is payable to each other Minister of State (other than the Prime Minister) an allowance, in addition to his salary, at the rate of One thousand two hundred and fifty pounds a year.

“(3.) The allowances provided for by this section are payable out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund, which is appropriated accordingly.”.