Salaries and pensions of Comptroller, Parliamentary Commissioner and Health Service Commissioners

7Health Service Commissioners

(1)

Section 32 of the M1National Health Service Reorganisation Act 1973 and section 43 of the M2National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1972 (salaries and pensions of Health Service Commissioners) shall be amended as follows.

(2)

In subsection (1) of each section for the words " such salary " there shall be substituted the words " the same salary as if he were employed in the civil service of the State in such appointment ".

(3)

In subsection (3) of each section the words from " but any such abatement" to the end shall be omitted and after that subsection there shall be inserted the following subsection—

“(3A)

In computing the salary of a former holder of the office of Commissioner for the purposes of the said Schedule 1—

(a)

any abatement of that salary under subsection (3) above,

(b)

any temporary abatement of that salary in the national interest, and

(c)

any voluntary surrender of that salary in whole or in part,

shall be disregarded.”