Part 1 U.K.National Assembly for Wales

Remuneration, oaths etc.U.K.

22Remuneration: supplementaryU.K.

(1)Different provision may be made under section 20 or 21 for different cases.

(2)The Assembly must ensure that information concerning—

(a)the amounts paid to each Assembly member as salary and allowances, and

(b)the total amount paid to Assembly members as salaries and allowances,

is published for each financial year (and may, in particular, do so by requiring it to be published by the Assembly Commission).

(3)If the Assembly has exercised the power under section 20 to confer on the Assembly Commission the function of determining any salaries, allowances, pensions or gratuities of the kind mentioned in that section, the Assembly Commission must publish every such determination as soon as is reasonably practicable after it is made.

(4)For the purposes of sections 20 and 21 a person who—

(a)ceases to be an Assembly member when the Assembly is dissolved, but

(b)is nominated as a candidate at the subsequent general election,

is to be treated as an Assembly member until the end of the day on which the poll at the election is held.

(5)Where a person—

(a)ceases to be an Assembly member when the Assembly is dissolved, but

(b)continues to hold office as Presiding Officer or as a member of the Assembly Commission by virtue of paragraph 1(1) or (2) of Schedule 2,

the fact that the person is no longer an Assembly member does not affect any entitlement under sections 20 and 21 in respect of the holding of office as Presiding Officer or as a member of the Assembly Commission (or both) until the end of the day on which the person ceases to hold it.

(6)Provision made under section 20(3) does not affect pensions or allowances in payment before the provision was made.

Commencement Information

I1Ss. 1-94, 97-106 in force immediately after "the 2007 election" by s. 161(1) (subject to s. 161(4)(5))