Oireachtas (Allowances To Members) and Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices (Amendment) Act, 1968

Amendment of section 3 of Principal Act.

5.—(1) The following subsections are hereby substituted for subsections (1) and (2) of section 3 of the Principal Act as amended by section 7 of the Act of 1964:

“(1) There shall be paid to the Taoiseach an annual sum by way of salary not exceeding the sum of £5,500 and to each other member of the Government an annual sum by way of salary not exceeding the sum of £3,500.

(2) There shall be paid an annual sum by way of salary, not exceeding the sum of £2,250, to every Parliamentary Secretary appointed under section 7 of the Ministers and Secretaries Act, 1924, who shall not, by the terms of his appointment, be declared to be appointed without salary.”

(2) This section and the next four sections shall come into operation on the date of the passing of this Act.