Parliamentary Allowances

No. 22 of 1970

An Act to amend the Parliamentary Allowances Act 1952–1968.

[Assented to 17 June 1970]

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 Parliamentary Allowances Act 1970.

(2.) The Parliamentary Allowances Act 1952–1968 is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.

(3.) The Principal Act, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Parliamentary Allowances Act 1952–1970.

Commencement.

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

3. After section 3 of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:—

Interpretation.

“3a. For the purposes of this Act, the day of the election or re-election of a Senator or a member of the House of Representatives shall be deemed to be—

(a) where he was elected or re-elected, as the case may be, as the result of a polling—the day fixed for that polling; or

(b) in any other case—the day on which he was declared duly elected.”.

Allowances to Senators.

4. Section 4 of the Principal Act is amended—

(a) by omitting from sub-section (2.) the words “Two thousand six hundred and fifty dollars” and inserting in their stead the words “Two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars”; and

(b) by omitting from sub-section (4.) the words “day of that election” and inserting in their stead the words “day fixed for the polling at that election”.

Allowances to members of House of Representatives.

5. Section 5 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from sub-section (5.) the words “or of the election of his successor, as the case may be” and inserting in their stead the words “or, if he is not re-elected, the day next before the day fixed for the polling at that general election”.


Second Schedule.

6. The Second Schedule to the Principal Act is repealed and the following Schedule inserted in its stead:—

second schedule Section 5(2.).

Electoral Divisions

New South Wales

Victoria

Queensland

South Australia

Western Australia

Tasmania

Banks

Balaclava

Bowman

Adelaide

Curtin

Denison

Barton

Batman

Brisbane

Bonython

Fremantle

 

Bennelong

Bruce

Griffith

Boothby

Perth

Berowra

Casey

Lilley

Hawker

Stirling

Blaxland

Chisholm

Moreton

Hindmarsh

Swan

Bradfield

Corio

Oxley

Kingston

 

Chifley

Deakin

Petrie

Port Adelaide

Cook

Diamond Valley

Ryan

Sturt

Cunningham

Gellibrand

 

 

Evans

Henty

Grayndler

Higgins

Hughes

Holt

Kingsford-Smith

Hotham

Lang

Isaacs

Lowe

Kooyong

Mackellar

Lalor

Newcastle

Maribyrnong

North Sydney

Melbourne

Parramatta

Melbourne Ports

Phillip

Scullin

Prospect

Wills

Reid

 

Shortland

St. George

Sydney

Warringah

Wentworth

Werriwa