Ministers of State Amendment Act 1990

No. 109 of 1990

An Act to amend the Ministers of State Act 1952

[Assented to 18 December 1990]

[Date of commencement 17 January 1991]

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

Short title etc.

1.  (1) This Act may be cited as the Ministers of State Amendment Act 1990.

(2)  In this Act, “Principal Act” means the Ministers of State Act 1952¹.

Salaries of Ministers

2.  Section 5 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting “shall not exceed $820,000” and substituting:

“must not exceed:

(a)  in the financial year that commenced on 1 July 1990—$1,376,000; or

(b)  in a subsequent financial year—$1,477,000”.

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; Nos. 71 and 91, 1987; No. 19, 1988; and No. 20, 1989.

[Minister’s second reading speech made in—

House of Representatives on 7 November 1990

Senate on 14 November 1990]