Ministers of State Amendment Act 1985 (Cth)

Ministers of State Amendment Act 1985

No. 56 of 1985

An Act to amend the Ministers of State Act 1952

[Assented to 4 June 1985]

BE IT ENACTED by the Queen, and the Senate and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:

Short title, &c.

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Ministers of State Amendment Act 1985.

(2) The Ministers of State Act 19521is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.

Commencement

2. This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

Salaries of Ministers

3. Section 5 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting “$610,000” and substituting “$630,000”.

 

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; and No. 73, 1984.

 

[Minister’s second reading speech made in—

House of Representatives on 8 May 1985

Senate on 20 May 1985