EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

ADVISORY COUNCIL ORDINANCE 1957

No. 5 of 1957

	Following representations made to the Minister for the Interior, Mr. L. O. Brown, an Assistant Commissioner of the Public Service Board, was requested to investigate and report on the allowances paid to elected members of the Advisory Council.  Mr. Brown, in his report submitted on 14th September 1956, recommended that the allowance paid to elected members remain at £100 per annum.  In the case of the Chairman of the Council who is an elected member, however, Mr. Brown recommended that an allowance of £200 per annum should be paid because of the additional expense which such a member incurred and the additional calls on his private time as a result of his holding that position.  The purpose of this Ordinance is to implement Mr. Brown’s recommendations.

	The Ordinance is to take effect retrospectively from 1st October 1956, which was the commencement of the second year of the term of office of the present members of the Council.