Oireachtas (Allowances To Members) and Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices (Amendment) Act, 1960

Amendment of section 3 of Principal Act.

4.—The following section is hereby substituted for section 3 of the Principal Act:

“(1) The allowance to be paid to each member of Dáil Éireann under this Act shall be an allowance at the rate of £1,000 per annum payable monthly.

(2) The allowance to be paid to each member of Seanad Éireann under this Act shall be an allowance at the rate of £750 per annum payable monthly.

(3) Where a member of the Oireachtas holds the office of Attorney General, the salary for the time being payable to him by virtue of his holding that office shall be deemed to include the allowance payable to him under this Act, and accordingly he shall not, while he is in receipt of a salary in respect of that office, be entitled to any further allowance under this Act.

(4) No provision in any British statute or in any Saorstát Éireann statute or in any Act of the Oireachtas (whether passed before or after the passing of this Act) whereby any pension payable out of the Central Fund or moneys provided by the Oireachtas is liable to be suspended or abated, wholly or in part, in the event of the pensioner being in receipt of payments (by whatever name called in such statute or Act) out of moneys provided or to be provided by the Oireachtas shall, unless the contrary is expressly enacted therein, operate so as to require suspension or abatement of any such pension by reference to an allowance payable under this Act.”