Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

PARLIAMENTARY ALLOWANCES ACT 1952 - SECT 6

(1)

Where:

(a)

a person is, by virtue of the operation of section 3, 4 or 6 of the Parliamentary Presiding Officers Act 1965 , deemed to continue, for the purposes referred to in that section, to be the President of the Senate or the Speaker of the House of Representatives during any period; or

(b)

a person is, by virtue of the operation of section 5 or 7 of that Act, deemed to be, for the purposes referred to in that section, the President of the Senate or the Speaker of the House of Representatives during any period and the person is not, in respect of that period, entitled to allowances as Deputy President and Chairman of Committees of the Senate or Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, as the case may be;

the person is entitled to receive, in respect of that period, the allowances (other than the allowances payable in accordance with section 5 or 5A, as the case may be) payable to a person who holds the office of President of the Senate or Speaker of the House of Representatives, as the case may be.

(4)

The allowances payable to a Deputy President and Chairman of Committees of the Senate who is re-elected at an election of the Senate are to be reckoned to and including the day next before the day on which his or her successor as Deputy President and Chairman of Committees of the Senate is chosen.

(5)

The allowances payable to a Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives who is re-elected at a general election of that House are to be reckoned to and including the day next before the day on which his or her successor as Deputy Speaker of that House is chosen.