Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices Act, 1938
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Payment of annual allowance to the Leader of the Second Party and the Leader of the Third Party. |
10.—(1) There shall be paid to the Leader of the Second Party an annual sum by way of allowance for expenses of £800. | |
(2) Subject to the provisions of this Act, there shall be paid to the Leader of the Third Party, whenever there is any such Party, an annual sum by way of allowance for expenses of £500. | ||
(3) The number of allowances payable under this section shall not at any one time exceed two. | ||
(4) The allowance payable under this section to the Leader of the Second Party or the Leader of the Third Party shall be in addition to the allowance payable to him under the Oireachtas (Allowances to Members) Act, 1938 (No. 34 of 1938), and shall be payable in respect of any period (commencing on or after the date of the passing of this Act) in respect of which the last-mentioned allowance is payable to him, and no other period. | ||
(5) Every allowance payable under this section shall be exempt from income-tax (including sur-tax) and no such allowance shall be reckoned in computing income for the purposes of the Income Tax Acts. |