PART II

Amendment of Oireachtas (Allowances to Members) Acts, 1938 and 1947.

3. —(1) In this Part of this Act “the Principal Act” means the Oireachtas (Allowances to Members) Act, 1938 .

(2) The Oireachtas (Allowances to Members) Acts, 1938 and 1947, and this Part of this Act may be cited together as the Oireachtas (Allowances to Members) Acts, 1938 to 1960.

4. —The following section is hereby substituted for section 3 of the Principal Act:

“(1) The allowance to be paid to each member of Dáil Éireann under this Act shall be an allowance at the rate of £1,000 per annum payable monthly.

(2) The allowance to be paid to each member of Seanad Éireann under this Act shall be an allowance at the rate of £750 per annum payable monthly.

(3) Where a member of the Oireachtas holds the office of Attorney General, the salary for the time being payable to him by virtue of his holding that office shall be deemed to include the allowance payable to him under this Act, and accordingly he shall not, while he is in receipt of a salary in respect of that office, be entitled to any further allowance under this Act.

(4) No provision in any British statute or in any Saorstát Éireann statute or in any Act of the Oireachtas (whether passed before or after the passing of this Act) whereby any pension payable out of the Central Fund or moneys provided by the Oireachtas is liable to be suspended or abated, wholly or in part, in the event of the pensioner being in receipt of payments (by whatever name called in such statute or Act) out of moneys provided or to be provided by the Oireachtas shall, unless the contrary is expressly enacted therein, operate so as to require suspension or abatement of any such pension by reference to an allowance payable under this Act.”

5. —The following section is hereby inserted in the Principal Act after section 6:

“6A. (1) This section applies to a scheme for pensions for members of the Oireachtas which complies with the following conditions:

(a) the scheme has been made by a joint committee of both Houses of the Oireachtas,

(b) the scheme has been approved of by resolution of each House of the Oireachtas,

(c) the scheme provides for the pensions thereunder being paid out of a fund to be held by trustees and maintained by means of contributions paid by all members of the Oireachtas.

(2) A scheme to which this section applies shall have effect in accordance with its terms and the Minister shall, in accordance with regulations, make deductions from the allowances paid under this Act to members of the Oireachtas and pay the deductions into the fund maintained pursuant to the scheme.

(3) The Minister may make regulations for the purposes of this section and the regulations shall be laid before each House of the Oireachtas as soon as may be after they are made.”

6. — Section 3 of the Oireachtas (Allowances to Members) (Amendment) Act, 1947 , is hereby repealed.