1Numbers of Parliamentary Secretaries.

(1)The limits imposed by section two of the [1 Edw. 8 and 1 c. 1.] Ministers of the Crown Act, 1937, or by any other enactment upon the number of persons to whom salaries may be paid as the holders of any one or more of the offices to which this section applies, or who may be appointed to hold any such office, shall cease to have effect; but the total number of persons to whom salaries may be paid at any time as the holders of all such offices shall not exceed thirty-three.

(2)This section applies to the offices listed in Part II of the Second Schedule to the [5 & 6 Eliz. 2. c. 20.] House of Commons Disqualification Act, 1957, except those of the Law Officers, the Secretaries to and Junior Lords of the Treasury, and the Treasurer, Comptroller and Vice-Chamberlain of Her Majesty's Household.