28Allowances to Members of the
Legislative Assembly
Every Member of the Legislative Assembly now
serving or hereafter to serve therein shall, unless he is one of the persons
specified or referred to in the next following section, be entitled to
receive, by way of reimbursement for expenses incurred by him in the discharge
of his Parliamentary duties, an allowance at the rate of five hundred pounds
per annum.
The Leader of the Opposition shall be entitled to
receive an additional allowance of two hundred and fifty pounds per
annum.
Such allowance shall be charged on the
Consolidated Revenue Fund, and shall be payable monthly at the rate aforesaid
to every such Member from the time of his taking his seat, and, in every case,
until he resigns or his seat is vacated, or until Parliament is dissolved or
expires by effluxion of time:
Provided that in the case of every member elected
after the first day of May, one thousand nine hundred and seven, such
allowance shall be reckoned from the day of his election.
All moneys accruing due to any member under this
Act, not drawn within seven days after the close of any Parliament, either by
dissolution or by effluxion of time, shall revert to the
Treasury.
s 28: Am 1906 No 41,
sec 61; 1912 No 19, sec 2; 1912 No 41, sec 188.