1870.]				34 VICTORIÆ.				[No. 383	

AN ACT

	To	provide for reimbursing Members of the 				Legislative Council and of the Legislative 			Assembly their expenses in relation to their 			attendance in Parliament.

	MOST GRACIOUS SOVEREIGN— [29th December 1870.]

We Your Majesty’s most dutiful and loyal subjects the Legislative Assembly of Victoria in Parliament assembled having taken into consideration the message of His Excellency the Governor recommending that provision be made “for reimbursing Members of the Legislative Council and of the Legislative Assembly their expenses in relation to their attendance in Parliament” do most humbly beseech Your Majesty that it may be enacted, and be it enacted by the Queen’s  Most Excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of Victoria in this present Parliament  assembled and by the authority of the same as follows (that is to say) :—
	1. Every Member of the Legislative Council and of the Legislative Assembly shall be entitled to receive reimbursement of his expenses in relation to his attendance in the discharge of his Parliamentary duties at the rate of Three hundred pounds per annum, and the same shall be payable out of the Consolidated Revenue to every such member from the time of his taking his seat until his resignation thereof, or his retirement therefrom by effluxion of time, or the dissolution of the Parliament, as the case may be anything contained in the Act No. 91 to the contrary notwithstanding : Provided that no member whilst in the receipt out of the Consolidated Revenue of an official salary or any annual payment shall (to the amount of such salary or payment) be entitled to receive such reimbursement as aforesaid.
	2. This Act shall commence and take effect on and from the day of the first meeting of Parliament after the general election now next ensuing of members for the Legislative Assembly, and shall continue in force for three years and thence until the end of the then next session of Parliament.	

Preamble.

Members of  Parliament to be reimbursed their expenses.

Commencement and duration of Act.	

[I hereby certify that the above fair print of the Bill intituled “An Act to provide for re-imbursing Members of the Legislative Council and of the Legislative Assembly their expenses in relation to their attendance in Parliament,” is the Bill to which the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of Victoria have agreed.

		G W Rusden

		Clerk of the Parliaments]		[In the name and on behalf of Her Majesty I assent to this Act.

	Canterbury

	Governor]

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