Parliamentary Retiring Allowances Act 1952 (Cth)

PARLIAMENTARY RETIRING ALLOWANCES.

No. 3 of 1952.

An Act to amend the Parliamentary Retiring Allowances Act 1948, and for other purposes.

[Assented to 13th March, 1952.]

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 1952. (2.) The Parliamentary Retiring Allowances Act 1948 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 1948–1952.

Commencement. 2. This Act shall be deemed to have come into operation on the first day of January, One thousand nine hundred and fifty-two.

Definitions. 3. Section four of the Principal Act is amended by omitting the definition of "parliamentary allowance" and inserting in its stead the following definition:— "'parliamentary allowance' means the allowance paid to a member— (a) under section three of the Parliamentary Allowances Act 1920 or of that Act as amended; or (b) under sub-section (1.) of section four or of section five of the Parliamentary Allowances Act 1952, and includes the allowance so paid, to a person who has been a member, from and including the day of dissolution or expiration of the House of which he was a member to and including the day to which the allowance was reckoned by virtue of section four or section five of the former Act or is reckoned by virtue of sub-section (4.) of section four or of sub-section (5.) of section five of the latter Act;". 4. Section fourteen of the Principal Act is repealed and the following section inserted in its stead:—

Contributions by Commonwealth. "14. The Commonwealth shall pay into the Fund— (a) in respect of a pension under section eighteen of this Act at a rate not exceeding Bight pounds per week or under section nineteen of this Act at a rate not exceeding Five pounds per week—an amount per week equal to sixty per centum of the rate of the pension per week; (b) in respect of a pension under section eighteen of this Act at a rate exceeding Eight pounds per week—an amount per week equal to the aggregate of Four pounds sixteen shillings and the amount by which the rate of the pension per week exceeds Eight pounds; (c) in respect of a pension under section nineteen of this Act at a rate exceeding Five pounds per week—an amount per week equal to the aggregate of Three pounds and the amount by which the rate of the pension per week exceeds Five pounds; (d) in respect of a pension under section nineteen a of this Act an amount equal to each amount of pension paid; and (e) an amount equal to the Commonwealth supplement payable to a person.".