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

Amendment of the 1961 Act — insertion of section 46A (remuneration to be adjusted automatically by reference to salary increases in Civil Service).

32.—The 1961 Act is amended by inserting the following section after section 46:

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

46A.—(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 amounts of remuneration payable under section 46 are, by the operation of this section, increased on and from that day by the same proportion.

(2) It is not necessary to make an order under section 46(9) 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 .”.