The Short Title of this Act shall be “The Legislative Officers Salaries Act 1867.”

There shall be annually paid and applied out of the consolidated fund of this Colony to the respective persons holding the offices named in the Schedule to this Act the respective sums set opposite the names of such offices in the said Schedule.

For all purposes of this Act the persons who shall fill the offices respectively of Speaker of the House of Representatives and Chairman of Committees of the House of Representatives at the time of the dissolution of any Parliament shall be deemed to be the Speaker and Chairman of Committees respectively until the first meeting of the next Parliament.

The sums mentioned in the said Schedule as the salaries of the Speakers and Chairman of Committees shall include all allowances of whatsoever kind except the necessary travelling expenses for attending meetings of the General Assembly.

The Treasurer of New Zealand shall in his Accounts from time to time be allowed credit for any sum of money paid by him in pursuance of this Act and the receipt of the person to whom the same shall be paid shall be a full and valid discharge to the said Treasurer in passing his said Accounts for any such sum as shall be therein mentioned.

This Act shall be deemed to have been in operation from the first day of July one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.