WESTERN SAMOA

Parliamentary Under-Secretaries
Amendment Act
1997, No. 12

Arrangement of Provisions
Title

1. Short title and commencement
2. Salaries and allowances

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AN ACT to amend the Parliamentary Under-Secretaries Act 1988.

[23 April 1997]

BE IT ENACTED by the Legislative Assembly of Western Samoa in Parliament assembled as follows:-

1. Short title and commencement - This Act may be cited as the Parliamentary Under-Secretaries Amendment Act 1997 and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Parliamentary Under-Secretaries Act 1988 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act) and shall be deemed to have come into force on 1 January 1997.

2. Salaries and allowances - Section 7 of the principal Act is repealed and replaced by the following Section:

"7. Salary and allowances of Parliamentary Under-Secretaries - There shall be paid to each Under-Secretary:

(a) A salary at the rate of $25,200 a year; and

(b) An allowance at the rate of $6,180 a year,
to provide for expenses incurred in connection with his official duties and in duties in connection with the Legislative Assembly."

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