Oireachtas (Allowances To Members) and Ministerial, Parliamentary, Judicial and Court Offices (Amendment) Act, 1998

Orders relating to allowances under sections 3 and 4 and allocations under section 5 .

8.—(1) An order under section 3 , 4 or 5 of this Act may, if so expressed, have retrospective effect.

(2) The power to make an order under section 3 , 4 or 5 of this Act includes the power to amend or revoke the order.

(3) Every order made under section 3 , 4 or 5 of this Act shall be laid before each House of the Oireachtas as soon as may be after it is made and, if a resolution annulling the order is passed by either House within the next 21 days on which that House has sat after the order has been laid before it, the order shall be annulled accordingly but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done thereunder.