Members of Parliament, Reimbursement of Expenses, Act Amendment Act 1962 (WA)

No. 74.] Members of Parliament [1962.

Reimbursement of Expenses.

MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT,

REIMBURSEMENT OF

EXPENSES,

11° Elizabeth II.. No. LXXIV.

No. 74 of 1962.

AN ACT to amend the Members of Parliament,

Reimbursement of Expenses, Act, 1953-1959.

[Assented to 30th November, 1962.]

BE it enacted by the Queen'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:—

Short title

and citation.	1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Members of Parliament, Reimbursement of Expenses, Act Amendment Act, 1962.
(2) In this Act the Members of Parliament, Reimbursement of Expenses, Act, 1953-1959, is referred to as the principal Act.

1962.] Members of Parliament, [No. 74.

Reimbursement of Expenses.

(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act may be cited as the Members of Parliament, Reimbursement of Expenses, Act, 1953-1962.

2. This Act shall come into operation on the first 2fer,a ire

-day of January, nineteen hundred and sixty-three.

3.   The First Schedule to the principal Act is schedule

repealed and

repealed and re-enacted as follows:— re-enacted.

FIRST SCHEDULE. Section 2.

Maximum Rate

Province or District for which the	Per Annum of
Member of Parliament is Elected.	Reimbursement.

Item 1. £

Province

Metropolitan, Suburban, West 600

District-

Balcatta, Bayswater, Beeloo, Belmont, Canning, Claremont, Cockburn, Cottesloe, East Melville, Fre- mantle, Karrinyup, Maylands, Melville, Mount Hawthorn, Mount Lawley, Nedlands, Perth, South Perth, Subiaco, Swan, Victoria Park, Wembley 600

Item 2.

Province

North

950

District-

Gascoyne, Kimberley, Murchison,

Pilbara 950

Item 3.

Province

North-East, South-East 850

District-

Boulder-Eyre, Merredin-Yilgarn, Roe 850

Item 4.

Province or District not mentioned in

Items 1, 2 or 3 of this Schedule . 800

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Reimbursement of Expenses.

Second

Schedule	4. The Second Schedule to the principal Act is
repealed and

re-enacted. repealed and re-enacted as follows

Section 23. SECOND SCHEDULE.

Maximum Rate

Office occupied by the Member of Parliament.	per Annum of
Reimbursement.

£

Premier	600
Deputy Premier	300
Leader of the Government in the Legisla-

tive Council . 300

Minister of the Crown (other than the Pre-

mier, Deputy Premier, and the Leader

of the Government in the Legislative

Council) .... . 200

Leader of the Opposition in the Legislative

Assembly 200

Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the

Legislative Assembly 100

Leader of the Opposition in the Legislative

Council 100

Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the

Legislative Assembly (when there is a

recognised third party in the Legisla-

tive Assembly) .... 75

Leader of any third party in the Legisla- tive Assembly when that party is a recognised party under the Parliamentary Allowances Act, 1911	100
President of the Legislative Council ..	150
Speaker of the Legislative Assembly	150
Chairman of Committees in the Legislative

Assembly .... 75

Chairman of Committees in the Legislative

Council 75

Government Whip in the Legislative

Assembly 200

Opposition Whip in the Legislative Assembly 150