Part 3Parliamentary standards etc
Other provision
I139Resettlement grants for MEPs
1
The European Parliament (Pay and Pensions) Act 1979 is amended as follows.
2
In section 3 (resettlement grants for persons ceasing to be MEPs) for subsections (1) to (3) substitute—
1
The IPSA may make a scheme providing for allowances to be payable to persons to whom this section applies, in connection with their ceasing to be Representatives.
2
It may do so only if a scheme under section 5 of the Parliamentary Standards Act 2009 (MPs' allowances scheme) makes provision for allowances to be payable in connection with persons ceasing to be Members on a dissolution of Parliament.
3
A scheme under this section must make provision which is as nearly equivalent to the provision made by the scheme under section 5 of that Act as the IPSA considers practicable.
3A
The IPSA must send to the Speaker of the House of Commons for laying before both Houses of Parliament—
a
any scheme made by it under this section, and
b
a statement of the reasons for making the scheme.
3B
When the scheme and the statement of reasons have been laid, the IPSA must publish them in a way it considers appropriate.
3C
This section applies to a person who is a Representative immediately before the end of a five-year period, and either—
a
does not stand for election to the European Parliament at the general election of representatives to the European Parliament held in that period, or
b
does so stand at that election (whether for the same or a different electoral region) and is not elected.
3D
A scheme made by the IPSA under this section may amend or revoke any previous scheme made by the IPSA under this section.
3
Omit section 3A (power to amend section 3).
4
In section 7(1)(b)
(expenses and receipts) for “grant” substitute “
allowance
”
.