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This is a draft item of legislation. This draft has since been made as a UK Statutory Instrument: The Ministerial and other Salaries Act 1975 (Amendment) Order 2011 No. 1689
1. This Order may be cited as the Ministerial and other Salaries Act 1975 (Amendment) Order 2011 and comes into force on the day after the day on which it is made.
2. The Ministerial and other Salaries Act 1975 is amended in accordance with articles 3 to 7 of this Order.
3. In section 1—
(a)in subsection (3)(1), for the annual amount specified as the salary of the Speaker of the House of Commons, substitute £75,766; and
(b)in subsection (3A)(2), for the annual amount specified as the salary of the Speaker of the House of Lords, substitute £101,038.
4. In section 1A(3)—
(a)in subsection (1) for the words from “year” to “minimum annual amount,” substitute “relevant period, the annual amount”;
(b)after subsection (1) insert—
“(1A) “Relevant period” means—
(a)the period beginning with the day after the day on which the relevant Parliament is dissolved and ending with the following 31st March (“the first relevant period”), and
(b)each successive period of 12 months.
(1B) The “relevant Parliament” means the Parliament in which subsection (1A) comes into force.”;
(c)in subsection (2) for “year” substitute “period”; and
(d)after subsection (2) insert—
“(2A) If the first relevant period does not begin on 1st April, in relation to that period the reference in subsection (2) to 1st April of the period concerned is to be read as a reference to 1st April before the beginning of the first relevant period.”
5. For Parts I to IV of Schedule 1(4), substitute the provisions in Schedule 1 to this Order.
6. In paragraph 1 of Part V of Schedule 1—
(a)in sub-paragraph (1)(5) omit the words from the first “or” to the end; and
(b)after sub-paragraph (2) insert—
“(3) For the purposes of this Schedule a person is a member of the House of Commons for the period beginning with the day after the day of the poll for the parliamentary election at which the person is elected, and ending with—
(a)if the person is a member immediately before Parliament is dissolved, the day of the poll for the parliamentary general election which follows the dissolution;
(b)otherwise, the day on which the person ceases to be a member.”
7. For Part I of Schedule 2 (6), substitute the provisions in Schedule 2 to this Order.
Name
Clerk of the Privy Council
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