Ministerial, Parliamentary and Judicial Offices and Oireachtas Members (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 2001

• Permanent Page URL

“Salaries to be adjusted automatically by reference to salary increases in Civil Service.

8B.—(1) Whenever remuneration in the Civil Service is increased with effect from a particular day in accordance with agreements or arrangements that have effect on a general basis in the Civil Service (whether or not they also apply in relation to persons employed other than in the Civil Service), the salaries payable under this Part are, by the operation of this section, increased on and from that day by the same proportion.

(2) It is not necessary for an order to be made under section 8A in order to give effect to an increase made by the operation of subsection (1).

(3) In this section, ‘Civil Service’ has the meaning given by the Civil Service Commissioners Act, 1956 .

Rights of Ministers and others to elect not to accept increase in salary.

8C.—(1) A person who is entitled to be paid a salary under this Part may, by notice in writing given to the Minister for Finance, elect not to accept the amount of an increase of that salary that would otherwise become payable under a provision of this Part.

(2) Such an election does not affect the application of subsection (1) to the remaining part of the salary whenever salaries payable under this Part are generally increased.

(3) A person who has made an election under this section may revoke the election by a further notice in writing given to the Minister for Finance, but the revocation has effect only prospectively.

(4) Subject to subsection (3), an election made by a person under this section is not affected by the fact that the person ceases to hold the office to which the salary relates and the person is subsequently reappointed to that office.

Salaries to be paid in monthly instalments.

8D.—A salary payable under this Part is to be paid in monthly instalments.”.