PARLIAMENTARY ALLOWANCES (No. 2).

No. 64 of 1947.

An Act to amend the Parliamentary Allowances Act 1920–1938, as amended by the Parliamentary Allowances Act 1947.

[Assented to 4th December, 1947.]

[Date of commencement, 1st January, 1948.]

BE it enacted by the King’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, for the purpose of appropriating the grant originated in the House of Representatives, as follows:—

Short title and citation.

1.—(1.) This Act may be cited as the Parliamentary Allowances Act (No. 2) 1947.

(2.) Section one of the Parliamentary Allowances Act 1947 is amended by omitting sub-section (3.).

(3.) The Parliamentary Allowances Act 1920–1938, as amended by the Parliamentary Allowances Act 1947 and by this Act, may be cited as the Parliamentary Allowances Act 1920–1947.

2.—(1.) After section seven of the Parliamentary Allowances Act 1920–1938, as amended by the Parliamentary Allowances Act 1947, the following section is inserted:—

Allowance to leader of third party in House of Representatives.

“7a. In addition to any other allowance payable under this Act, an allowance at the rate of Four hundred pounds a year shall be payable to the Leader in the House of Representatives (not being the Leader of the Opposition) of a recognized political party not less than ten members of which are members of the House of Representatives and of which no member is a Minister of State.”.

(2.) The allowance payable under section seven a of the Parliamentary Allowances Act 1920–1938, as amended by the Parliamentary Allowances Act 1947 and by this Act, shall be deemed to have been payable from and including the first day of July, One thousand nine hundred and forty-seven.