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[Date of commencement―1st April, 1926.

To amend the South Africa Act, 1909, and to repeal the Payment of Members of Parliament Act, 1916.

(Assented to 8th June, 1926.) (Signed by the Governor-General in Afrikaans.)

E IT ENACTED by the King’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate and the House of Assembly of the Union of South Africa, as follows:―

1. Section fifty-six of the South Africa Act, 1909, is hereby repealed and the following new section substituted therefor:― “56. (1) Subject to the provisions of this section, every member of the Senate and the House of Assembly (excluding Ministers receiving a salary under the Crown, the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Assembly) shall receive an allowance of seven hundred pounds per annum.

(2) For every day during which any such member fails to attend a meeting of the House of which he is a member there shall be deducted the sum of six pounds: Provided that such member shall be exempted from deductions on account of such failure―

(3) Subject to the deductions incurred, if any, the Clerk of the House concerned shall pay to every such member of the House of which he is Clerk the allowance aforesaid in monthly instalments, the first month to be reckoned from the date notified in the Gazette as the date on which the member concerned was nominated or elected (as the case may be).