The Short Title of this Act is “The Parliamentary Honorarium and Privileges Act 1884 Amendment Act, 1887.”

The allowances to be henceforth paid to members of the General Assembly under “The Parliamentary Honorarium and Privileges Act, 1884,” and in lieu of the allowances authorised by section three of that Act, shall be as follows:—

To every member of the Legislative Council residing at a distance exceeding three miles in a direct line from the building wherein the General Assembly is summoned to meet the allowance of one hundred pounds for every session at which he attends, and no member of the Legislative Council who resides at a distance not exceeding three miles from the building where the General Assembly is summoned to meet shall be paid any allowance under the said Act:

To every member of the House of Representatives, for every such session, the sum of one hundred pounds, with an additional sum of fifty pounds to every such member in consideration of the additional expenses necessarily incurred by him; and such additional sum of fifty pounds shall not be reducible in case there shall be two sessions of Parliament held in the same year as provided in the fourth section of the said Act, but shall be paid in respect of each session at which such member attends: Provided that in the case of any members of the General Assembly residing within three miles of the building wherein the General Assembly is assembled the expenses allowed shall only be twenty-five pounds.

All such sums shall be paid out of the Consolidated Fund.

This Act shall be read and construed with the Act which it purports to amend, and it shall be deemed and construed to have come into operation on the first day of October last past.