Members of Parliament, Reimbursement of Expenses, Act Amendment Act 1965 (WA)

1965.] Members of Parliament, I No. 103.

Reimbursement of Expenses.

MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT,

REIMBURSEMENT OF EXPENSES.

No. 103 of 1965.

AN ACT to amend the Members of Parliament,

Reimbursement of Expenses, Act, 1953-1962.

[Assented to 17th December, 1965:]

BE it enacted by the Queen's Most ExcellentMajesty, 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:-

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Members of r:gafttlieon.

Parliament, Reimbursement of Expenses, Act

Amendment Act, 1965.

(2) In this Act the Members of Parliament, Reimbursement of Expenses, Act, 1953-1962, is referred to as the principal Act.

(3) The principal Act as amended by this Act may be cited as the Members of Parliament, Reimbursement of Expenses, Act, 1953-1965.

No. 103.] Members of Parliament, [1965.

Reimbursement of Expenses.

Commence-

ment. 2. This Act shall be deemed to have come into

operation on the first day of September nineteen

hundred and sixty-five.

First

Schedule	3.	The First Schedule to the principal Act is
repealed and

re-enacted. repealed and re-enacted as follows

FIRST SCHEDULE.

Section 2. Maximum Rate

Province or District for which the Member per annum of

of Parliament is Elected. Reimbursement.

£

Group A.

Province

North, Lower North 1,400

District

Kimberley, Pilbara, Gascoyne,

Murchison ... 1,400

Group B.

Province

Upper West, South, South East 1,100

District

Greenough, Merredin-Yilgarn,

Boulder-Eyre, Roe 1,100

Group C.

Province

Central, South West 1,000

District-

Geraldton, Moore, Mt. Marshall,

Stirling, Albany, Vasse,

Blackwood, Warren, Kalgoorlie 1,000

Group D.

Province

West, Lower West, Lower Central 900

District-

Toodyay, Murray, Wellington,

Bunbury, Northam, Avon, Narrogin,

Collie, Katanning 900

1965.1 Members of Parliament, [No. 103.

Reimbursement of Expenses.

Maximum Rate

Province or District for which the Member per annum of

of Parliament is Elected. Reimbursement.

Group E.

Province

Metropolitan, North Metropolitan,

North East Metropolitan, South East

Metropolitan, South Metropolitan ... 700

District-

Balcatta, Bayswater, Beeloo, Belmont,

Canning, Claremont, Cockburn,

Cottesloe, Dale, Darling Range, East

Melville, Fremantle, Karrinyup,

Maylands, Melville, Mount Hawthorn, Mount Lawley, Redlands, Perth, South Perth, Subiaco, Swan, Victoria Park, Wembley 700

A member of the Legislative Council or a Member of the Legislative Assembly while he is a Minister of the Crown or while he is the Leader of the Opposition in the Legislative Assembly is entitled up to only three-quarters of the maximum rate per annum of reimbursement shown in this Schedule as applicable to the Province or District for which that Member is elected.

4. The Second Schedule to this Act is amended SecondSchedule

by deleting the passage- amended.

"Government Whip in the Legislative

Assembly 200

Opposition Whip in the Legislative

Assembly 150"

in the three last lines of the Schedule.