The European Parliament (Pay and Pensions) Act 1979 (Section 3 (Amendment) Order 1994

Statutory Instruments

1994 No. 1663

EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT

The European Parliament (Pay and Pensions) Act 1979 (Section 3 (Amendment) Order 1994

Made

21st June 1994

Laid before Parliament

24th June 1994

Coming into force

15th July 1994

In exercise of the powers conferred upon me by section 3A(1) and (3) of the European Parliament (Pay and Pensions) Act 1979(1), I hereby make the following Order:

Title and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the European Parliament (Pay and Pensions) Act 1979 (Section 3 (Amendment) Order 1994 and shall come into force on 15th July 1994.

Resettlement grants to persons ceasing to be Representatives

2.  For section 3 of the European Parliament (Pay and Pensions) Act 1979(2)there shall be substituted the following section:—

“3.    Resettlement grants to persons ceasing to be Representatives.

(1) Where a person who is a Representative immediately before the end of any five-year period either—

(a) did not stand for election to the European Parliament at the general election of representatives to the European Parliament held in that period; or

(b) did so stand (whether for the same or a different constituency) at that election and was not elected,

he shall be entitled to a resettlement grant calculated in accordance with the following provisions of this section.

(2) Where a person becomes entitled to a grant under this section at the end of any five year period, its amount shall be equal to the relevant percentage of a years salary under section 1 at the rate applicable to him immediately before the end of that period, the relevant percentage for this purpose being that shown in the following Table in relation to his age at the end of that period and the number of years for which he has served as a Representative before the end of that period.

TABLE

Percentage of Yearly Salary

Age	Number of years of service
	Under 10	10	11	12	13	14	15 or over
Under 50	50	50	50	50	50	50	50
50	50	50	52	54	56	58	60
51	50	52	55	58	62	65	68
52	50	54	58	63	67	72	76
53	50	56	62	67	73	78	84
54	50	58	65	72	78	85	92
55 to 64	50	60	68	76	84	92	100
65	50	58	65	72	78	85	92
66	50	56	62	67	73	78	84
67	50	54	58	63	67	72	76
68	50	52	55	58	62	65	68
69	50	50	52	54	56	58	60
70 or over	50	50	50	50	50	50	50

(3) In calculating for the purposes of subsection (2)

the number of years for which a person has served as a Representative before the end of the period in question, there shall be disregarded—

(a) any fraction of a year for which he has so served; and

(b) if he has become entitled to a grant under this section on any previous occasion, any period of service which for those purposes was on that occasion either taken into account or disregarded under paragraph (a).

(4) In this section “five-year period” means a period of five years for which Representatives have been elected to the European Parliament; but if any such period is extended or curtailed, the references in this section to the end of that period shall be construed accordingly.”.

Michael Howard

One of Her Majestys Principal Secretaries of State

Home Office

1994

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order

This Order, made under section 3A of the European Parliament (Pay and Pensions) Act 1979, amends section 3 of that Act in order to equate the resettlement grant provision for Members of the European Parliament with that made for Members of the House of Commons pursuant to a resolution of the House of Commons dated 22nd May 1991. The effect of the amendment is that a resettlement grant is payable to all Members of the European Parliament regardless of their age, who at a general election either do not stand for election or, if they do so, are not re-elected. The amount of the grant payable varies in accordance with age and length of service.

(1)

1979 c. 50. Section 3A was inserted by the Parliamentary Pensions etc. Act 1984 (c. 52), section 14. (Section 3 of the European Communities (Amendment) Act 1986 (c. 58) substituted references to the European Parliament for references to the Assembly of the European Communities in Acts and otherinstruments.)

(2)

Section 3 was substituted by the Parliamentary Pensions etc. Act 1984 (c. 52), section 14.