Oireachtas (Allowances To Members) and Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices (Amendment) Act, 1973

Amendment of section 3 of Principal Act.

7.—(1) The following subsections are hereby substituted for, subsections (1) and (2) of section 3 of the Principal Act as amended by section 5 of the Act of 1968:

“(1) There shall be paid to the Taoiseach an annual sum by way of salary not exceeding the sum of £6,959 and to each other member of the Government an annual sum by way of salary not exceeding the sum of £4,430.

(2) There shall be paid an annual sum by way of salary, not exceeding the sum of £2,851, to every Parliamentary Secretary appointed under section 7 of the Ministers and Secretaries Act, 1924, who shall not, by the terms of his appointment, be declared to be appointed without salary.”.

(2) This section and sections 8 , 9 and 10 of this Act shall be deemed to have come into operation on the 1st day of July, 1973.