PARLIAMENTARY ALLOWANCES.
No. 20 of 1902.
An Act relating to the Allowance to Members of each House of the Parliament of the Commonwealth.
[Assented to 10th October, 1902.]
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 Parliamentary Allowances Act 1902.
Allowance to Members.
2.—(1.) The allowance to each Senator under section forty-eight of the Constitution shall be reckoned—
(a) in the case of a Senator chosen at the first election after a dissolution of the Senate, from the day of his election;
(b) in the case of a Senator chosen to fill a place which is to become vacant in rotation, from the first day of January following the day of his election;
(c) in the case of a Senator chosen or appointed to fill a casual vacancy, from the day on which his name is certified by the Governor of a State to the Governor-General.
(2.) The allowance under section forty-eight of the Constitution to each Member of the House of Representatives shall be reckoned in the case of a Member elected after the passing of this Act from the day of his election.