Ministers of State Amendment Act (No. 2) 1987

No. 91 of 1987

An Act to amend the Ministers of State Act 1952

[Assented to 18 September 1987]

BE IT ENACTED by the Queen, and the Senate and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:

Short title etc.

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Ministers of State Amendment Act (No. 2) 1987.

(2) The Ministers of State Act 19521 is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.

Commencement

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

Number of Ministers

3. Section 4 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting “twenty-seven” and substituting “30”.

NOTE

1. No. 1, 1952, as amended. For previous amendments, see No. 1, 1956; No. 18, 1959; Nos. 1 and 71, 1964; No. 93, 1966 (as amended by No. 3, 1967); No. 1, 1967; No. 102, 1968; No. 43, 1971; No. 14, 1973 (as amended by No. 216, 1973); No. 216, 1973 (as amended by No. 20, 1974); No. 82, 1978; No. 141, 1979; No. 165, 1980; No. 121, 1981; No. 78, 1982; No. 128, 1983; No. 73, 1984; No. 56, 1985; No. 26, 1986; and No. 71, 1987.

[Minister’s second reading speech made in—

Senate on 15 September 1987

House of Representatives on 17 September 1987]