Australasian Federation (Representatives' Allowance) Act 1897 (NSW)

Act No. 15, 1897.

1. Every representative of New South Wales at the Convention
constituted by the Australasian Federation Enabling Act, 1895, shall be
entitled to receive, by way of reimbursement of expenses incurred by him

An Act to authorise the payment of allowances to

th e Eepresentatiyes of New South Wales at the

Federal Convention. [13th November, 1897.]

Assembly of New South Wales in Parliament assembled, and by the BE it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative

authority of the same, as follows :—

him at and incidental to the sitting of that Convention at Adelaide, an allowance at the rate of two guineas for every day that he remained at Adelaide during the said sitting, and for every day necessarily spent hy him in going to and returning from the said sitting. All such expenses shall he a charge upon and he paid out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund, a special appropriation from which is herehy made for that purpose:

Provided that nothing in this Act shall constitute any of the

said representatives the holder of an office of profit under the Crown.

2. This Act may he cited as the " Australasian Federation i

(Representatives' Allowance) Act, 1897."