Ministerial and other Maternity Allowances Act 2021

3 Ministerial leave: other provision

(1) While the designation has effect, the holding of the designated ministerial office is to be ignored for the purposes of section 2(1) and (2) of the House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975 (limit on number of persons who are holders of Ministerial offices entitled to sit and vote in the House of Commons).

(2) If the designation ends by virtue of section 1(6)(a), but the mother designated has not ceased to hold the designated ministerial office, the mother is to be treated for the purposes of section 2(2) of that Act as having become the holder of that office when the designation ended.

(3) No salary under the Ministerial and other Salaries Act 1975 may be paid in respect of the designated ministerial office.

(4) In the application of the Ministerial and other Pensions and Salaries Act 1991 to a mother or expectant mother who ceases to hold a designated ministerial office—

(a) subsection (3) of this section does not prevent the designated ministerial office falling within section 4(6)(a) of that Act;

(b) sections 4(2) and 8(1) of that Act have effect as if the salary referred to in those provisions were the salary which was being paid to the mother or expectant mother in respect of the first ministerial office immediately before the mother or expectant mother ceased to hold that office.

(5) No allowance is payable under section 5(1)(a) of that Act (allowance for ministerial office-holders in the House of Lords) in respect of the designated ministerial office.