Subject to the provisions of this Act, there shall be paid to the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand the salary and allowances specified in the Second Schedule to this Act.

The salary herein provided for the Governor-General shall commence to be payable on the date on which he assumes the duties of his office.

If the office of Governor-General is vacated after the incoming Governor-General has embarked to assume the government of New Zealand, and before his arrival in New Zealand, the incoming Governor-General shall be entitled to receive salary at one-half the prescribed rate from the date of such vacancy until he assumes the duties of his office.

If the office of Governor-General is vacated before the incoming Governor-General has embarked to assume the government of New Zealand, the incoming Governor-General shall be entitled to receive salary at one-half the prescribed rate from the date of his embarkation until he assumes the duties of his office.

If the Governor-General is temporarily absent from New Zealand or is incapacitated from performing the duties of his office, and another officer or person is sworn to administer the government, the Governor-General shall receive salary at one-half the prescribed rate of five thousand pounds during the administration of such officer or person.

For the purposes of this section the absence of the Governor-General on journeys to and from the Cook Islands or Western Samoa shall not be deemed to be absence from New Zealand.

The officer or person administering the government of New Zealand during the absence or incapacity of the Governor-General or during a vacancy in the office shall receive salary at one-half the rate of five thousand pounds, together with the full establishment and travelling-allowances payable to the Governor-General under this Act at the rate specified in the Second Schedule hereto, proportioned to the period of his administration, and if he is the holder of any other office, then also salary at one-half the rate prescribed in respect of such other office.

For the purposes of this Act the office of Governor-General shall be deemed to be vacant not only when actually vacant but whenever the person holding His Majesty’s Commission as Governor-General leaves New Zealand for the purpose of assuming the government of another Possession, or otherwise absents himself from New Zealand, unless for a temporary absence with intention to resume the government of New Zealand.

The following rules shall be observed in regard to the Government House at Wellington:—

With regard to Government House at Auckland, no expense shall be incurred or paid at the public cost other than the necessary expense of keeping the house and grounds in order, and the expense of taking care of the said house during the absence of the Governor-General therefrom.

All moneys payable under this section at the public cost shall be payable out of moneys to be appropriated from time to time by Parliament.

There shall be paid in each year out of the Consolidated Fund to the Ministers of the Crown in New Zealand the sums specified in the Third Schedule hereto.

Any member of the Executive Council, being a Maori or half-caste, may, while in receipt of the salary prescribed by Part II of the Third Schedule hereto, hold any of the Ministerial offices mentioned in Part I of that Schedule.

Members of the Executive Council travelling within New Zealand on public service shall be entitled to an allowance not exceeding two pounds for each day they are so travelling.

There shall be payable to each member of the Executive Council who is not provided at the public cost with a residence at the seat of Government an allowance in lieu of such residence at the rate of two hundred pounds a year.

Each of the Ministers to whom salary is appropriated under this Act shall be a member of the Executive Council holding one or more of the Ministerial offices mentioned in the Third Schedule hereto; but if two or more such offices are held at any one time by the same Minister he shall be paid the salary attached to one of the said offices only.

Notwithstanding any Act, rule, or law to the contrary, any power, duty, authority, or function imposed upon or vested in the Attorney-General by virtue of his office may be exercised and performed either by the person holding the office of Attorney-General or by the person holding the office of Solicitor-General.

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

There shall be paid in each year out of the Consolidated Fund the salaries following, that is to say:—

Such sums shall include all allowances except the necessary travelling-expenses for attending meetings of the General Assembly.

For all purposes of this section the persons filling the offices respectively of Speaker of the House of Representatives and Chairman of Committees of that House at the time of the dissolution of any Parliament shall be deemed to be the Speaker and Chairman of Committees respectively until the first meeting of the next Parliament.

There shall be paid to every member of the General Assembly for his attendance in the discharge of his parliamentary duties the sum of three hundred and fifty pounds per annum in the case of a member of the Legislative Council, and the sum of five hundred pounds per annum in the case of a member of the House of Representatives.

Such payments shall be made out of the Consolidated Fund by equal monthly payments on the last day of each and every month in each year, and shall be calculated as follows:—

All payments under the last preceding section shall be subject to the provisions following, that is to say:—

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

For the purposes of this section the term “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 said member when travelling as aforesaid.

Payment under this section shall be made in respect of one journey only to and from a meeting of the General Assembly in any session.

Payments under this section may be made at any time within six months after the same become payable, and shall be paid out of moneys to be appropriated for the purpose by Parliament.

No payment 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 which the person claiming payment is a member, and for any other period except upon the certificate of the Clerk of that House.

No payment under section seventeen hereof shall be made to any member of the Legislative Council or of the House of Representatives for any period during which he—

There shall be annually paid and applied out of the Consolidated Fund the salaries following, that is to say:—

The Clerk of the Legislative Council for the time being shall hold the office of Clerk of Parliaments.

The Clerk-Assistant of the Legislative Council shall be the Deputy Clerk of Parliaments.

The Deputy Clerk of Parliaments shall act as Clerk of Parliaments during any vacancy in the office of Clerk of Parliaments, and shall also so act during the absence of the Clerk of Parliaments from New Zealand and during the period of any illness or other temporary incapacity of the Clerk of Parliaments.

There shall be payable to His Majesty in every year out of the Consolidated Fund the sum of seven thousand pounds for defraying the expenses of Native purposes.