Acts Amendment (Increase in number of Ministers of the Crown) Act 1950 (WA)

1950.] Acts Amendment ( Increase in [No. 2.

Number of Ministers of

the Crown.

ACTS AMENDMENT (INCREASE IN

NUMBER OF MINISTERS OF

THE CROWN).

14° Geo. VI., No. II.

No. 2 of 1950.

AN ACT to amend certain Acts to provide for an increase from eight to ten in the number of principal executive offices of the Government liable to be vacated on political grounds.

[Assented to 24th October, 1950.]

BE it enacted by the King's Most Excellent

Majesty, by and with the advice and consent

of the Legislative Council and the Legislative

Assembly of Western Australia, in this present

Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the

same, as follows:-

This Act may be cited as the Acts Amend-

ment (Increase in number of Ministers of the

Crown) Act, 1950.

Short title.

1.

CONSTITUTION.

(1) This section shall be read as one with the Constitution Acts Amendment Act, 1899-1949 (Act No. 19 of 1899, as amended by Acts numbered 21 of 1904, 6 and 31 of 1911, 34 of 1921, 25 of 1927, 1 and 26 of 1929, 25 of 1933, 40 of 1934, 29 of 1942, 52 of 1945, 2, 4 and 52 of 1947, 12 of 1948 and 17 of 1949) referred to in this section as the principal Act.

Constitution

Citation of

(2) The principal Act as amended by this Act may be cited as the Constitution Acts Amendment Act,

principal

Act as

amended by

this Act.

1899-1950.

2.

No. 2.] Acts Amendment (Increase in [1950.

Number of Ministers of

the Crown.

Amendment

of s. 37.	(3) The principal Act is amended by substituting for the word "eight" in line one of the proviso to section thirty-seven the word "ten".
Cf. No. 2 of
1947.
Amendment
of s. 43.	(4) Section forty-three of the principal Act is amended by substituting the word "ten" for the word "eight"
Cf. No. 25 of
1927.

(a)	in line one of subsection (1);
(b)	in lines one and three of subsection (2).

Amendment

of s. 45.	(5) Section forty-five of the principal Act is
Cf. No. 25 of

1927, No. 52	amended by
of 1947, No. 17

of 1949.	(a)	deleting all words between the word "Fund" in line two and the word "for" in line three;
(b)	adding after the word "Act" in line five the words "an amount not exceeding that shown as the total of the several sums set forth in that schedule".
Amendment

of Fourth	(6) The Fourth Schedule to the principal Act is
Schedule.

Cf. No. 25 of	amended
1927, No. 52 of

1947, No. 17 of	(a)	by substituting for the words and figures Eight Ministerial Salaries 10,250" in line fourteen, the words and figures "Ten Ministerial Salaries 12,750";
1949.
(b)	by substituting for the figures "26,900" in line fifteen, the word and figures "Total 29,400".

PARLIAMENTARY ALLOWANCES.

Construction.	3. (1) This section shall be read as one with the Parliamentary Allowances Act, 1911-1947 (Act No. 33 of 1911 as amended by Acts numbered 63 of 1919, 32 of 1925, 28 of 1927, 6 of 1930, 34 of 1944 and 52 of 1947) referred to in this section as the principal Act.
Citation of

principal Act	(2)	The principal Act as amended by this Act may
as amended

by this Act.

be cited as the Parliamentary Allowances Act, 1911-

1950.

Amendment

of s. 3. (3)

The principal Act is amended by substituting for the word "eight" in line one of paragraph (iii) of the proviso to section three the word "ten".

Cf. No. 52 of

1947.