Parliamentary Pensions etc. Act 1984

House of Commons Members' Fund

12 Appropriation of funds for alleviation of special hardship

(1) In the year current at the passing of this Act and subsequent years, the power of the House of Commons by resolution under subsection (4) of section 4 of the [1948 c. 36.] House of Commons Members' Fund Act 1948 (provision for cases of special hardship) to appropriate for the purposes of that section up to one-tenth of—

(a) the sums deducted and set aside as mentioned in that subsection, and

(b) the contributions made under section 1 of the [1957 c. 24.] House of Commons Members' Fund Act 1957 (Treasury contributions),

shall (without prejudice to section 3 of the [1981 c. 7.] House of Commons Members' Fund and Parliamentary Pensions Act 1981 (exclusion of increases in Treasury contributions from appropriation for the alleviation of special hardship)) be exercisable in relation to the whole or any part of those sums and contributions, instead of in relation to not more than one-tenth of them.

(2) Accordingly, in relation to the years to which subsection (1) above applies—

(a) in subsection (4) of the said section 4, for the words from " such part " to " the resolution " there shall be substituted the words " the whole or any part "; and

(b) in subsection (4) of the said section 1, for the words " up to one-tenth " there shall be substituted the words " the whole oi any part " .