S.I. No. 50/1964 - Oireachtas (Allowances To Members) (Amendment) Regulations, 1964.

S.I. No. 50 of 1964.

OIREACHTAS (ALLOWANCES TO MEMBERS) (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS, 1964.

I, SÉAMAS Ó RIAIN, Minister for Finance, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 3 of the Oireachtas (Allowances to Members) Act, 1962 (No. 32 of 1962), hereby make the following regulations :

1. (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Oireachtas (Allowances to Members) (Amendment) Regulations, 1964.

(2) The Oireachtas (Allowances to Members) Regulations, 1963 ( S.I. No. 4 of 1963 ), the Oireachtas (Allowances to Members) (Amendment) Regulations, 1963 ( S.I. No. 276 of 1963 ), and these Regulations may be cited together as the Oireachtas (Allowances to Members) Regulations, 1963 and 1964.

2. The restrictions contained in paragraphs (c) and (d) of Regulation 5 of the Oireachtas (Allowances to Members) Regulations, 1963, as amended by paragraph (iii) of Regulation 2 of the Oireachtas (Allowances to Members) (Amendment) Regulations, 1963, shall have effect subject to the following qualifications :

(i) where, in any particular week, the member concerned applies for the issue to him of not more than twenty envelopes, he may request that all or a specified number of them shall be Official Paid envelopes,

(ii) where, in any particular week, the member concerned applies for the issue to him of more than twenty envelopes, he may request that a specified number, not exceeding twenty, of them shall be Official Paid envelopes,

(iii) Official Paid envelopes shall be issued in accordance with any such request and they may be posted by the member himself.

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this third day of March, 1964.

SÉAMAS Ó RIAIN,

Minister for Finance.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

These regulations provide for the issue to members of the Dáil and Seanad of not more than 20 envelopes, out of the maximum entitlement of 300 envelopes in any week, in the form of Official Paid envelopes.