SALARIES
(STATUTORY OFFICES) ADJUSTMENT.
No. 52 of 1947.
An
Act to increase the Salaries payable to the Holders of certain Statutory
Offices, and for other purposes.
[Assented to 1st November, 1947.]
BE it enacted by
the King’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives
of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows :—
Short
title.
1. This Act may be cited as the Salaries
(Statutory Offices) Adjustment Act 1947.
Commencement.
2.—(1.) This Act shall come into operation on the day
on which it receives the Royal Assent.
(2.) Where,
under any Act as amended by this Act, the rate of salary or allowance payable
to the holder of an office is increased, salary or allowance at that increased
rate shall be deemed to have been payable from and including the first day of
July, One thousand nine hundred and forty-seven.
Repeal
of Arbitration (Public Service) Act 1911.
3. The Arbitration (Public Service) Act 1911 is repealed.
Amendment
of certain Acts.
4. The Acts specified in the first column of the First Schedule to
this Act (being Acts fixing the salaries or allowances payable to the holders
of the offices respectively specified in the second column of that Schedule)
are amended as respectively specified in the third column of that Schedule.
Citation
of Acts.
5.—(1.) Each Act specified in the first column of the
Second Schedule to this Act, as amended by this Act, may be cited in the manner
specified in the second column of that Schedule opposite to the reference to
that Act in the first column.
(2.) Section
one of the Commonwealth Conciliation and
Arbitration Act 1947 is amended by omitting sub-section (3.).
(3.) Section
fifteen of the War Service Homes Act 1947
is amended by omitting sub-section (3.).
THE SCHEDULES.
Sec. 4. FIRST
SCHEDULE.
First
Column | Second
Column. | Third
Column. |
Act. | Office. | Provision
amended, and nature of amendment. |
Judiciary
Act 1903–1946
‘ | Chief Justice of the High Court | Section
47— Omit from sub-section (1.) “Three
thousand five hundred pounds”, insert” Four thousand five hundred pounds”
|
Justice of the High Court | Section
47— Omit from sub-section (1.) “Three
thousand pounds”, insert “Four thousand pounds”
|
Commonwealth
Conciliation and Arbitration Act 1904–1946, as
amended by the Commonwealth
Conciliation and Arbitration Act 1947
| Chief Judge of the Commonwealth Court
of Conciliation and Arbitration
| Section
21— Omit from sub-section (1.) “Three
thousand pounds”, insert “Four thousand pounds”
|
Judge of the Commonwealth Court of
Conciliation and Arbitration
| Section
21— Omit from sub-section (1.) “Two
thousand five hundred pounds”, insert “Three thousand five hundred pounds”
|
Bankruptcy
Act 1924–1946 | Judge of the Federal Court of
Bankruptcy | Section
18bb— Omit from sub-section (1.) “Two
thousand five hundred pounds”, insert “Three thousand five hundred pounds”
|
Seat
of Government Supreme Court Act 1933–1945 | Judge of the Supreme Court of the
Australian Capital Territory
| Section
8b— Omit from sub-section (1.) “Two
thousand five hundred pounds”, insert “Three thousand pounds”
|
Arbitration
(Public Service) Act 1920–1934 | Public Service Arbitrator | Section
7— Omit from sub-section (1.) “Two
thousand pounds”, insert “Two thousand seven hundred and fifty pounds “
|
Commonwealth
Public Service Act 1922-1946, as amended by the Commonwealth Public Service Act 1947
and by the War Service Homes Act 1947
| Chairman
of the Public Service Board | Section
13— Omit from sub-section (1.) “Two
thousand five hundred pounds”, insert “Three thousand five hundred pounds”
|
Member of the Public Service Board | Section
13— Omit “Two thousand pounds”, insert
“Two thousand seven hundred and fifty pounds”
|
Land
Tax Assessment Act 1910–1946 | Commissioner of Land Tax | Section
5— Omit from sub-section (5.) “Two
thousand pounds “, insert “Three thousand pounds”
|
Assistant Commissioner of Land Tax | Section
5— Omit from sub-section (5.) “One
thousand five hundred pounds”, insert “Two thousand two hundred and fifty pounds”
|
First Schedule—continued.
First
Column. | Second
Column. | Third
Column. |
Act. | Office. | Provision
amended, and nature of amendment. |
Audit Act 1901–1934 | Auditor-General............................. | Section
4— Omit “One thousand seven hundred
and fifty pounds”, insert “Two thousand seven hundred and fifty pounds”
|
Tariff Board Act 1921–1934 | Chairman
of the Tariff Board | Section
8— Omit from sub-section (1.) “of Sixteen hundred pounds “,
insert “(inclusive of the salary, if any, payable to him as an officer of the
Public Service) of Two thousand two hundred and fifty pounds “ Omit sub-section (1a.)
|
Member
of the Tariff Board | Section
8— Omit from sub-section (2.) “six guineas per sitting, with a
maximum in any one year of fifteen hundred pounds”, insert “seven guineas per
sitting, with a maximum in any one year of One thousand seven hundred and
fifty pounds” Omit from the proviso to that
sub-section “six guineas per sitting, with a maximum of fifteen hundred
pounds a year”, insert “seven guineas per sitting, with a maximum of One
thousand seven hundred and fifty pounds a year”
|
Sec. 5. SECOND
SCHEDULE.
First
Column. | Second
Column. |
Acts
Amended. | Citations. |
Judiciary Act 1903–1946................................................ Commonwealth
Conciliation and Arbitration Act 1904–1946, as
amended by the Commonwealth
Conciliation and Arbitration Act 1947
| Judiciary Act 1903–1947 Commonwealth
Conciliation and Arbitration Act 1904–1947
|
Bankruptcy Act 1924–1946............................................. Seat
of Government Supreme Court Act 1933–1945 | Bankruptcy
Act 1924–1947 Seat
of Government Supreme Court Act 1933–1947 |
Arbitration (Public Service) Act 1920–1934 Commonwealth
Public Service Act 1922-1946, as
amended by the Commonwealth Public
Service Act 1947 and by the War Service Homes Act 1947
| Arbitration
(Public Service) Act 1920–1947 Commonwealth
Public Service Act 1922–1947
|
Land Tax
Assessment Act 1910–1946........................... | Land
Tax Assessment Act 1910–1947 |
Audit Act 1901–1934....................................................... | Audit
Act 1901–1947 |
Tariff Board Act
1921–1934........................................... | Tariff
Board Act 1921 |