Oireachtas (Payment of Members) Act, 1933

Commencement of allowances and travelling facilities.

2.—The allowance and travelling facilities to be paid to and received by a member of the Oireachtas under the Oireachtas (Payment of Members) Acts shall (subject to the provisions of those Acts in relation to members holding certain offices and subject to the provisions of this Act) commence and be payable—

(a) in the case of a member of Dáil Eireann elected to be such member at a general election, as on and from the day on which the Oireachtas is summoned to meet next after such general election or, if under the Standing Orders of Dáil Eireann such member is, by reason of his failure to comply with those Standing Orders, not entitled to sit in Dáil Eireann as a member thereof on that day, the first day thereafter on which he becomes, by compliance with the said Standing Orders, entitled thereunder to sit in Dáil Eireann as a member thereof, and

(b) in every other case, as on and from the day on which such member first becomes, by compliance with the Standing Orders of the House of which he is a member, entitled under those Standing Orders to sit in that House as a member thereof.