4. In section 1A(1)—
(a) in subsection (1) for the words from “year” to “minimum annual amount,” substitute “relevant period, the annual amount”;
(b) after subsection (1) insert—
“(1A) “Relevant period” means—
(a) the period beginning with the day after the day on which the relevant Parliament is dissolved and ending with the following 31st March (“the first relevant period”), and
(b) each successive period of 12 months.
(1B) The “relevant Parliament” means the Parliament in which subsection (1A) comes into force.”;
(c) in subsection (2) for “year” substitute “period”; and
(d) after subsection (2) insert—
“(2A) If the first relevant period does not begin on 1st April, in relation to that period the reference in subsection (2) to 1st April of the period concerned is to be read as a reference to 1st April before the beginning of the first relevant period.”
Section 1A was inserted by section 1(2) of the Ministerial and other Salaries Act 1997 (c.62).