Parliamentary Standards Act 2009

13 Power to make transitional etc provision U.K.

(1) A Minister of the Crown may by order make supplementary, incidental, transitional, transitory or saving provision in connection with this Act.

(2) An order under this section may provide—

(a) that the House of Commons' rules about members' allowances have effect for specified purposes as if contained in a scheme under section 5,

F1 (b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

F1 (c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(3) The purposes which may be specified do not include the purposes of section 10 (offence of providing false or misleading information for allowances claims).

(4) The order may provide for references in the rules to an officer or committee of the House of Commons to have effect as references to the [F2 Compliance Officer] or the IPSA.

(5) An order under this section may provide that payments of allowances made to a member of the House of Commons, to which the member was not entitled under the rules mentioned in subsection (2)(a), may be set off against other claims for allowances to be paid to that member.

(6) An order under this section may provide—

(a) for the employment of persons of a specified description who are employed in connection with matters dealt with by the rules to be transferred to the IPSA by a scheme,

(b) for specified property, rights and liabilities which subsist wholly or mainly for the purposes of the House of Commons to be transferred to the IPSA by a scheme, and

(c) for specified documents and information held by or on behalf of the House of Commons (or an officer or committee of that House) to be transferred to the [F3 Compliance Officer] or the IPSA.

(7) A scheme made by virtue of subsection (6) is to be made by a Minister of the Crown with the consent of the person who chairs the House of Commons Commission.

(8) An order under this section is to be made by statutory instrument.

(9) A statutory instrument containing an order under this section may not be made unless a draft of the instrument has been laid before and approved by a resolution of the House of Commons.

(10) In this section—

• “the rules” means the rules of the House of Commons mentioned in subsection (2),

• “rules” includes resolutions, standing orders, codes, schemes and guidance.

Textual Amendments

F1 S. 13(2)(b)(c) omitted (7.5.2010) by virtue of Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010 (c. 25), s. 52, Sch. 5 para. 5(2); S.I. 2010/1277, art. 3(i)(iv)

F2 Words in s. 13(4) substituted (19.4.2010) by Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010 (c. 25), s. 52, Sch. 5 para. 5(3); S.I. 2010/1277, art. 2(d)(iv)

F3 Words in s. 13(6)(c) substituted (19.4.2010) by Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010 (c. 25), s. 52, Sch. 5 para. 5(3); S.I. 2010/1277, art. 2(d)(iv)

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 S. 13(7) applied (24.10.2011) by Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010 (c. 25), s. 52, Sch. 6 para. 48(3); S.I. 2011/2485, art. 2(1)(2)(c)(vi)