Salaries and Allowances Amendment Act 1991 (WA)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA

SALARIES AND ALLOWANCES

ENDMENT ACT 1991

No. 49 of 1991

AN ACT to amend section 6 of the Salaries and Allowances

Act 1975.

[Assented to 17 December 1991]

The Parliament of Western Australia enacts as follows:

Short title

1. This Act may be cited as the Salaries and Allowances

Amendment Act 1991.

Commencement

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

receives the Royal Assent.

No. 49] Salaries and Allowances Amendment Act 1991

Section 6 amended

3. Section 6 of the Salaries and Allowances Act 1975* is amended

by inserting after subsection (5a) the following subsection

(5b) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act or

any determination

(a)

a person elected as a member of the Legislative Council at a general election shall not be entitled to any remuneration as such a member in respect of any period before 22 May next following the general election unless that person was a member of the Legislative Council immediately before the general election; and

(b)

where an election held as part of a general election for the Legislative Council fails wholly or partially or is declared to be absolutely void and an election held by reason of that failure or declaration ("the fresh election") is held before 22 May next following the general election, a person elected as a member of the Legislative Council at the fresh election shall not be entitled to any remuneration as such a member in respect of any period before that 22 May unless that person was a member of the Legislative Council immediately before the fresh election. ".

[*Reprinted as at 16 November 1988 and amended by Acts Nos. 19

and 31 of 1989 and 38 of 1990.]