MINISTERS OF STATE (No. 2).

No. 71 of 1964.

An Act relating to the Salaries and Allowances of the Ministers of State.

[Assented to 30th October, 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 (No. 2) 1964.

(2.) The Ministers of State Act 1952-1959, as amended by the Ministers of State Act 1964, is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.

(3.) Section one of the Ministers of State Act 1964 is amended by omitting sub-section (3.).

(4.) 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 first day of November, One thousand nine hundred and sixty-four.

Salaries of Ministers.

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

Additional allowance to Prime Minister.

4. Section six of the Principal Act is amended by omitting the words “Three thousand five hundred” and inserting in their stead the words “Four thousand”.

Additional allowances to Ministers.

5. Section seven of the Principal Act is amended—

(a) by omitting from sub-section (1.) the words “One thousand five hundred” and inserting in their stead the words “One thousand eight hundred”; and

(b) by omitting from sub-section (2.) the words “One thousand two hundred and fifty” and inserting in their stead the words “One thousand five hundred”.