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Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices Act, 1938

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Number 38 of 1938.

MINISTERIAL AND PARLIAMENTARY OFFICES ACT, 1938.

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

PART I.

Preliminary and General.

Section

1.

Short title.

2.

Repeals.

PART II.

Remuneration of Members of the Government, Parliamentary Secretaries, the Attorney-General, and the Chairman and Deputy Chairman of DÁil Eireann and Seanad Eireann.

3.

Remuneration of Members of the Government and Parliamentary Secretaries.

4.

Remuneration of the Attorney-General.

5.

Remuneration of Chairman and Deputy Chairman of Dáil Eireann.

6.

Remuneration of the Chairman and Deputy Chairman of Seanad Eireann.

7.

Supplemental provisions in relation to salaries.

8.

Payment of salaries out or moneys provided by the Oireachtas.

PART III.

Allowances to Leaders of Certain Parties in DÁil Eireann.

9.

Definitions for the purposes of Part III.

10.

Payment of annual allowance to the Leader of the Second Party and the Leader of the Third Party.

11.

Conditions of payment of allowance to the Leader of the Third Party.

12.

Payment of allowances out of Central Fund.

PART IV.

Pensions and Allowances to and in Respect of Former Holders of Certain Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices.

13.

Definitions for the purposes of Part IV.

14.

Pensions to former holders of ministerial offices.

15.

Gratuities to former law officers.

16.

Pensions to former holders οf secretarial offices.

17.

Commencement of ministerial and secretarial pensions.

18.

Determination of questions of ministerial service.

19.

Prohibition of double pensions.

20.

Pensions and allowances to widows and children of deceased holders of qualifying offices.

21.

Grant of pensions, gratuities and allowances.

22.

Prohibition of assignment, etc., of pensions, gratuities and allowances.

23.

Suspension of pensions and allowances.

24.

Payment of pensions, gratuities and allowances out of Central Fund.

SCHEDULE.

Acts Referred to

Ministers and Secretaries Act, 1924

No. 16 of 1924

Oireachtas (Allowances to Members) Act, 1938

No. 34 of 1938

Interpretation Act, 1923

No. 46 of 1923

Irish Free State (Saorstát Eireann) Act, 1922

No. 1 of 1922

Military Service Pensions Act, 1934

No. 43 of 1934

Military Service Pensions Act, 1924

No. 48 of 1924

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Number 38 of 1938.

MINISTERIAL AND PARLIAMENTARY OFFICES ACT, 1938.

AN ACT TO MAKE PROVISION FOR REGULATING THE SALARIES OF MEMBERS OF THE GOVERNMENT, PARLIAMENTARY SECRETARIES, THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL, THE CHAIRMAN AND THE DEPUTY CHAIRMAN OF DÁIL EIREANN, AND THE CHAIRMAN AND THE DEPUTY CHAIRMAN OF SEANAD EIREANN, TO PROVIDE FOR THE PAYMENT OF ADDITIONAL ALLOWANCES TO THE LEADERS OF CERTAIN PARTIES IN DAIL EIREANN, TO PROVIDE FOR THE PAYMENT OF PENSIONS, GRATUITIES AND ALLOWANCES TO AND IN RESPECT OF PERSONS WHO HAVE HELD CERTAIN MINISTERIAL AND PARLIAMENTARY OFFICES, AND TO PROVIDE FOR CERTAIN OTHER MATTERS CONNECTED WITH THE MATTERS AFORESAID. [22nd December, 1938.]

BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS:—