Parliamentary Allowances Act 1970 (Cth)

Parliamentary Allowances

No. 22 of 1970

An Act to amend the Parliamentary Allowances Act 1952–1968.

[Assented to 17 June 1970]

BE it enacted by the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:—

Short title and citation.

1.—(1.) This Act may be cited as the Parliamentary Allowances Act 1970.

(2.) The Parliamentary Allowances Act 1952–1968 is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.

(3.) The Principal Act, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Parliamentary Allowances Act 1952–1970.

Commencement.

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

3. After section 3 of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:—

Interpretation.

“3a. For the purposes of this Act, the day of the election or re-election of a Senator or a member of the House of Representatives shall be deemed to be—

(a) where he was elected or re-elected, as the case may be, as the result of a polling—the day fixed for that polling; or

(b) in any other case—the day on which he was declared duly elected.”.

Allowances to Senators.

4. Section 4 of the Principal Act is amended—

(a)by omitting from sub-section (2.) the words “Two thousand six hundred and fifty dollars” and inserting in their stead the words “Two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars”; and

(b) by omitting from sub-section (4.) the words “day of that election” and inserting in their stead the words “day fixed for the polling at that election”.

Allowances to members of House of Representatives.

5. Section 5 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from sub-section (5.) the words “or of the election of his successor, as the case may be” and inserting in their stead the words “or, if he is not re-elected, the day next before the day fixed for the polling at that general election”.

 

Second Schedule.

6. The Second Schedule to the Principal Act is repealed and the following Schedule inserted in its stead:—

second schedule Section 5(2.).

Electoral Divisions

New South Wales	Victoria	Queensland	South Australia	Western Australia	Tasmania
Banks	Balaclava	Bowman	Adelaide	Curtin	Denison
Barton	Batman	Brisbane	Bonython	Fremantle
Bennelong	Bruce	Griffith	Boothby	Perth
Berowra	Casey	Lilley	Hawker	Stirling
Blaxland	Chisholm	Moreton	Hindmarsh	Swan
Bradfield	Corio	Oxley	Kingston
Chifley	Deakin	Petrie	Port Adelaide
Cook	Diamond Valley	Ryan	Sturt
Cunningham	Gellibrand
Evans	Henty
Grayndler	Higgins
Hughes	Holt
Kingsford-Smith	Hotham
Lang	Isaacs
Lowe	Kooyong
Mackellar	Lalor
Newcastle	Maribyrnong
North Sydney	Melbourne
Parramatta	Melbourne Ports
Phillip	Scullin
Prospect	Wills
Reid
Shortland
St. George
Sydney
Warringah
Wentworth
Werriwa