MINISTERS OF STATE.

No. 1 of 1964.

An Act to amend the Ministers of State Act 1952–1959.

[Assented to 4th March, 1964.]

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 1964.

(2.) The Ministers of State Act 1952–1959 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 1952–1964.

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-two” and inserting in its stead the word “twenty-five”.

Salaries of Ministers.

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