Public Works Committee Act 1904 (NSW)

Act No. 5, 11)04.

An Act to regula te the mee t ings of the Publ ic

Works Commit tee and sectional commit tees

thereof, and the fees, expenses , and charges
payable to its m e m b e r s ; to suspend the powers and dut ies of any such commit tee for a specified period ; to amend the Publ ic W o r k s Act, 1900; and for purposes con­ sequent on or incidental to the carrying out

of those objects. [2m October, 1904'.]

E it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with Assembly of New South Wales in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows :—	B	the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative
1. This Act may be cited as the " Public Works Committee

Act, 1901."

2. The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works

shall not, nor shall any sectional committee thereof, hold any meeting
while the Legislative Assembly is actually sitting.

3. The powers and duties conferred and imposed on any such committee by the Public Works Act, 1900, are hereby suspended from the commencement of this Act until the thirtieth day of June , one thousand nine hundred and five.

4. Notwithstanding the provisions of Division 4 of Part I I of the Public Works Act, 1900, the total amount chargeable on or payable out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund under those provisions to members of the said committee, for fees, travelling expenses, charges, or otherwise, shall not, during the twelve months beginning on the first day of July in any year exceed two thousand pounds.

The Treasurer shall adjust the payments to such committee so as to carry out the provisions of this section. Act

Where in any such twelve months the said amount of two thousand pounds would, but for the passing of this Act, bo exceeded, a proportionate abatement shall be made; in the fees, expenses, and charges payable: to members of such committee respectively, so as to reduce the amount so payable to the above-mentioned sum of two thousand pounds.