Ministers of State

No. 102 of 1968

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

[Assented to 29 November 1968]

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 1968.

(2.) The Ministers of State Act 1952–1967 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 1952–1968.

Commencement.

2. This Act shall come into operation on the first day of December, One thousand nine hundred and sixty-eight.

Salaries of Ministers.

3. Section 5 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting the words “One hundred and ninety-seven thousand, three hundred” and inserting in their stead the words “Two hundred and forty-five thousand, five hundred”.

Additional allowance to Prime Minister.

4. Section 6 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting the words “Eight thousand” and inserting in their stead the words “Ten thousand three hundred”.

Additional allowances to Ministers.

5. Section 7 of the Principal Act is amended—

(a) by omitting from sub-section (1.) the words “Three thousand six hundred” and inserting in their stead the words “Four thousand six hundred”; and

(b) by omitting from sub-section (2.) the words “Three thousand” and inserting in their stead the words “Four thousand”.

* Act No. 1, 1952, as amended by No. 1, 1956; No. 18, 1959; Nos. 1 and 71, 1964; No. 93, 1966; and No. 1, 1967.