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

Substitution of section 6 of the 1998 Act (payment of allowances and allocations).

41.—The 1998 Act is amended by substituting the following section for section 6:

“Payment of allowances.

6.—(1) An allowance referred to in section 3, 3A, 4 or 5 of this Act is payable in addition to the salary payable to the member concerned under section 2 of the Principal Act (as amended by the Act of 1992), but is not payable for a period for which that salary is not payable.

(2) An allowance referred to in section 3, 4 or 5 of this Act is not payable to a member who holds an office referred to in Part II of the Act of 1938 (as amended by the Act of 1977).

(3) If a member would, but for this section, be eligible to receive during a period more than one of the allowances referred to in sections 3, 3A, 4 and 5, the member is entitled to be paid only the highest or higher amount of those allowances during that period.

(4) An allowance referred to in sections 3, 3A, 4 and 5 is payable out of money provided by the Oireachtas.”.