New South Wales Consolidated Acts

PUBLIC WORKS ACT 1912 - SECT 31

31 Travelling expenses

(1) In addition to the sum payable to every member of the Committee as a sitting fee, the member shall be paid a further sum of three dollars per diem on account of expenses incurred by the member in, and in the course of travelling, whether by land or water, whenever such expenses and charges have been incurred bona fide in the performance of the member’s duties as a member of such Committee, whilst outside the boundaries of the county of Cumberland.

(2) Such expenses and charges shall be chargeable in the same manner, and be paid by the same person, and on the like certificate, and in other respects in like manner as in the case of fees for sittings.

(3) In all cases in which a sectional committee of the Committee is engaged in the inspection of any public works outside the county of Cumberland, each day or part of a day occupied in such inspection shall be deemed to constitute one attendance of such committee, and to entitle each member thereof to a fee of four dollars twenty cents.