1998-99
   The Parliament of the
   Commonwealth of Australia
   HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
   Presented and read a first time
   Ministers of State Amendment Bill 1999
   No. , 1999
   (Special Minister of State)
   A Bill for an Act to amend the Ministers of State Act 1952

   ISBN: 0642 404410

   Contents

   A Bill for an Act to amend the Ministers of State Act 1952

   The Parliament of Australia enacts:

      1 Short title

   This Act may be cited as the Ministers of State Amendment Act 1999.

      2 Commencement

   This Act commences on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

      3 Schedule(s)

   Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or
   repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned,
   and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to
   its terms.

        Schedule 1--Amendment of the Ministers of State Act 1952

   1 Section 5

   Repeal the section, substitute:

      5 Salaries of Ministers

   The annual sum payable under section 66 of the Constitution for the
   salaries of the Ministers of State must not exceed $1,622,000 in a
   financial year.