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Parliamentary Retiring Allowances

No. 35 of 1965`

An Act relating to Parliamentary Retiring Allowances.

[Assented to 2 June, 1965]

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 Retiring Allowances Act 1965.
(2.) The Parliamentary Retiring Allowances Act 1948-1964 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 Retiring Allowances Act 1948-1965.
(4.) The Parliamentary Retiring Allowances Act 1964, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Parliamentary Retiring Allowances Act 1964-1965.

Commencement.
2.—(1.) Subject to the next succeeding sub-section, this Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.
(2.) Sections 7 and 12 of this Act shall be deemed to have come into operation on the first day of November, One thousand nine hundred and sixty-four.

Parts.
3. Section 3 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting the word and figures "(Sections 5-8)" and inserting in their stead the word and figures "(Sections 5-8a)".

4. After section 8 of the Principal Act the following section is inserted in Part II.:—

Delegation.
"8a.—(1.) The Trust may, in relation to a matter or class of matters, by writing under its common seal, delegate to a trustee any of its powers or functions under this Act (except this power of delegation).
"(2.) The Trust may, either generally or in relation to a matter or class of matters, by writing under its common seal, delegate to a trustee or to an officer of the Department of the Treasury

all or any of its powers under section ten of this Act including its powers under the provisions of that section in their application to and in relation to the Ministerial Retiring Allowances Fund.
"(3.) A power or function so delegated may be exercised or performed by the delegate in accordance with the instrument of delegation.
"(4.) A delegation under this section is revocable at will and does not prevent the exercise of a power or the performance of a function by the Trust.".

5. Section 13 of the Principal Act is repealed and the following section inserted in its stead:—

Contributions by members.
"13.—(1.) A member or other person who is in receipt of a parliamentary allowance shall contribute to the Fund at the rate per month of eleven and one-half per centum of the monthly amount of his parliamentary allowance.
"(2.) For the purposes of the last preceding sub-section, the monthly amount of a parliamentary allowance shall be deemed to