Parliamentary And Other Pensions And Salaries Act 1976

4 Other amendments of Part I of the Act of 1972. U.K.

(1) The following provisions of Part I of the Act of 1972 shall have effect, and shall be deemed always to have had effect, as if they were amended as follows.

(2) In section 7(4) (early retirement of Members) for the words “the date on which he ceased to be a Member of the House of Commons” and the words “the date on which he ceased to be a Member” there shall be substituted the words “the date of his application or, if later, such other date as may be there specified”.

(3) In section 10(4) (early retirement of office-holders) for the words “the date on which he ceased to hold the qualifying office in question” and the words “the date on which he ceased to hold that office” there shall be substituted the words “the date of his application or, if later, such other date as may be there specified”.

(4) In section 18(3)(c) (conditions for refund of contributions) for the words “does not exceed” there shall be substituted the words “is less than”.

(5) In section 25 (interpretation of Part 1) there shall be inserted after subsection (2) the following subsection—

“(3) For the purposes of this Part of this Act a person shall be treated as a Member of the House of Commons at any time if, at that time, a salary is or was payable to him pursuant to any resolution of the House of Commons relating to the remuneration of Members for the time being in force.”

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 The text of ss. 1–6, 9(2) and the Schedule is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991