There shall be paid to the Governor-General—

The salary and allowance of the Governor-General shall—

On the vacation of his office by the Governor-General there may be paid to him with the approval of the Minister of Finance a sum not exceeding the salary and allowance of the Governor-General for a period of three months.

This section shall be deemed to have come into force on the first day of April, nineteen hundred and fifty.

There shall be paid to the Governor-General all expenditure incurred in respect of the transport to and from New Zealand and the travelling within or outside New Zealand during his term of office of the Governor-General and his family and staff.

Where any officer or person is sworn to administer the Government during the absence or incapacity of the Governor-General or during a vacancy in the office, that officer or person shall for the period of his administration be paid a salary at half the rate of the Governor-General’s salary, and also, if he is the holder of any other office, a salary at half the rate of the salary of that other office.

No person shall be appointed as a Minister of the Crown or as a member of the Executive Council unless he is at the time of appointment a member of the House of Representatives.

Every person appointed as a Minister of the Crown or as a member of the Executive Council shall vacate his office within twenty-one days if he ceases to be a member of the House of Representatives:

Provided that no person who is in office as a Minister of the Crown or as a member of the Executive Council immediately before the dissolution of any Parliament shall be deemed on that dissolution to have vacated his office by the operation of this section.

There shall be paid to the Prime Minister a salary at the rate of eighteen hundred pounds a year.

There shall be paid to each Minister of the Crown holding a portfolio or portfolios a salary at the rate of eleven hundred and seventy pounds a year.

There shall be paid to each Minister of the Crown without portfolio a salary at the rate of one thousand pounds a year.

There shall be paid to each member of the Executive Council an allowance of three guineas for every day on which he is travelling within New Zealand on public service.

There shall be paid to each member of the Executive Council who is not provided at the public cost with a residence at the seat of Government a house allowance at the rate of three hundred pounds a year.

The Governor-General may from time to time fix the order of precedence of Ministers.

The Governor-General may from time to time, by warrant under his hand, appoint any member of the House of Representatives to be a Parliamentary Undersecretary.

The office of Parliamentary Under-Secretary shall be held in relation to one or more Ministerial offices, to be specified in that behalf in the warrant of appointment.

Every person appointed as a Parliamentary Under-Secretary shall vacate his office if he ceases to be a member of the House of Representatives:

Provided that no person who is in office as a Parliamentary Under-Secretary immediately before the dissolution of any Parliament shall be deemed on that dissolution to have vacated his office by the operation of this section.

Subject to the foregoing provisions of this section, every person appointed as a Parliamentary Under-Secretary shall hold office as such during the pleasure of the Governor-General.

Notice of the appointment of any person as a Parliamentary Under-Secretary, and of the vacation of his office by resignation or otherwise, shall be published in the Gazette forthwith after the appointment or vacation of office, as the case may be.

Every person appointed to the office of Parliamentary Under-Secretary shall, as soon as may he after his acceptance of office, take and subscribe an oath of office in the form in the First Schedule to this Act or to the effect thereof.

Any such oath may be administered by any member of the Executive Council, or by the Clerk of the Executive Council.

There shall be paid to each Parliamentary Under-Secretary—

A Parliamentary Under-Secretary holding office as such in respect of any Ministerial office shall have and may exercise under the direction of the Minister concerned—

No Minister shall be debarred from personally exercising any power, duty, or function by reason of the fact that any power, duty, or function has been assigned to a Parliamentary Under-Secretary.

The fact that any person holding office as a Parliamentary Under-Secretary purports to exercise any power, duty, or function of a Minister of the Crown shall be conclusive evidence of his authority to do so.

Every instrument that is executed by a Parliamentary Under-Secretary on behalf of a Minister of the Crown shall be signed by him with his personal signature, to which shall be added the words “Parliamentary Under-Secretary, for the Minister of”, or words to the like effect.

Every instrument that is executed by a Parliamentary Under-Secretary on behalf of a Minister of the Crown shall be as valid and effective as if it had been executed by that Minister.

There shall be paid to the Speaker of the House of Representatives—

For the purposes of this Act the person holding the office of Speaker of the House of Representatives at the time of the dissolution of any Parliament shall be deemed to hold that office until the first meeting of the next Parliament.

There shall be paid to the Chairman of Committees of the House of Representatives—

For the purposes of this Act the person holding the office of Chairman of Committees of the House of Representatives at the time of the dissolution of any Parliament shall be deemed to hold that office until the first meeting of the next Parliament.

There shall be paid to the member of the House of Representatives who is for the time being leader of the Official Opposition, in addition to his salary and allowances as a member, an allowance at the rate of two hundred pounds a year to provide for expenses incurred in connection with his official duties.

Subject to the provisions of this Act, there shall be paid to each member of the House of Representatives—

The salary and allowance of each member shall be payable in respect of the period from the day named in the writ for the election at which he was elected as the day on which a poll would in the event of a contested election be taken until the corresponding day named in the writ for the next general election of members of Parliament, or until his seat becomes vacant by death or otherwise, as the case may be.

The salary and allowance of each member shall be paid by equal monthly instalments on the last day of each month, with a proportionate payment for any fraction of a month.

No payment under this section shall be made to any member of the House of Representatives for any period during which he—

All payments under the last preceding section shall be subject to the following provisions:—

There may be paid to any member of the House of Representatives his expenses of locomotion as hereinafter defined, together with the sum of two pounds for each day of twenty-four hours occupied in travelling to and returning from a meeting of Parliament. In cases where a period of less than twenty-four hours is so occupied the full sum of two pounds shall be paid.

For the purposes of this section the expression “expenses of locomotion” means the expenditure actually and reasonably incurred by any member in respect of passage money or fares for the conveyance of the member when travelling as aforesaid.

Payments under this section shall be made in respect of one journey only to and from each separate meeting of Parliament:

Provided that where the Speaker of the House of Representatives is usually resident elsewhere than in Wellington payments under this section may also be made to him in respect of every visit to Wellington made by him between meetings of Parliament.

No payment under this section shall be made to any member of the House of Representatives for any period during which he—

Whenever the House of Representatives adjourns upon the completion of the business for which it has met, the reassembly of the House after that adjournment shall for the purposes of this section be regarded as the commencement of a separate meeting of Parliament.

If any question arises as to whether any meeting of Parliament is a separate meeting for the purposes of this section, it shall be determined by the Prime Minister, and his decision shall be final.

Payments under this section may be made at any time within six months after the end of the session during which the meeting of Parliament in respect of which they are payable was held, and shall be made out of moneys to be appropriated for the purpose by Parliament.

No payment under section twenty-three or section twenty-four of this Act shall be made to any member for any period during which Parliament is in session except upon the certificate of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, or for any other period except upon the certificate of the Clerk of the House.

Where any member of Parliament travels within New Zealand on public service at the request of any Minister of the Crown there shall, out of moneys to be appropriated by Parliament for the purpose, be paid to him such travelling expenses and travelling allowances as may be approved by the Minister of Finance:

Provided that the rate of any travelling allowance payable under this section shall not exceed the rate of the travelling allowance for the time being payable to members of the Executive Council.

No payment shall be made under this section to any member in respect of travelling undertaken by him wholly within his own electorate.

On the recommendation of a Royal Commission appointed in that behalf, the Governor-General may from time to time, by Order in Council, fix the salaries and allowances to be paid to the Prime Minister and other Ministers of the Crown or members of the Executive Council, to Parliamentary Under-Secretaries, and to the Speaker and Chairman of Committees and other members of the House of Representatives.

Every Order in Council under this section shall come into force on a day to be specified in the Order in that behalf, being either before or after the date of the Order, but not earlier than the first day of April next before the date of the Order.

While any such Order in Council is in force the salaries and allowances fixed by the Order shall be payable in every year out of the Consolidated Fund without further appropriation than this section, instead of the salaries and allowances provided for in Parts II, III, and IV of this Act.

The appropriation by Parliament of moneys for the purpose of providing benefits or privileges of a specified kind for the Governor-General or the Prime Minister or other Ministers of the Crown or Parliamentary Under-Secretaries or members or former members of the General Assembly, or for members of their families, shall be sufficient authority for the grant of any such benefits or privileges, and where moneys are so appropriated it shall not be necessary as a condition for their lawful expenditure that the appropriation be implemented by any statutory authority other than this section.

Nothing in this section shall authorize the payment of any money to any member of Parliament or to any member of the family of any member of Parliament.

The operation of this section shall not be limited in its application to any benefits or privileges by reason merely of the fact that, with respect to any specified benefits or privileges, there may, in addition to the authority conferred by this section, be an express statutory authority:

Provided that nothing in this subsection shall be construed to authorize the expenditure of any money contrary to the express provisions of any Act.

The enactments specified in the Second Schedule to this Act are hereby repealed.

All appointments, certificates, and approvals and generally all acts of authority that originated under any of the enactments hereby repealed, and are subsisting or in force at the commencement of this Act, shall enure for the purposes of this Act as fully and effectually as if they had originated under the corresponding provisions of this Act, and accordingly shall, where necessary, be deemed to have so originated.