PART II.

Remuneration of Members of the Government, Parliamentary Secretaries, the Attorney-General, and the Chairman and Deputy Chairman of DÁil Eireann and Seanad Eireann.

3. —(1) There shall be paid to the Taoiseach an annual sum byway of salary not exceeding the sum of £2,500 and to each other member of the Government an annual sum by way of salary not exceeding the sum of £1,700.

(2) In lieu of sub-section (5) of section 7 of the Ministers and Secretaries Act, 1924 (No. 16 of 1924), repealed by this Act, it is hereby enacted that there shall be paid an annual sum by way of salary, not exceeding the sum of £1,200, to every Parliamentary Secretary appointed under the said section 7 who shall not, by the terms of his appointment, be declared to be appointed without salary.

(3) No person entitled to receive a salary under this section shall, at any one time, be paid more than one such salary.

(4) The total number of persons who are, at any one time, in receipt of salaries under this section shall not exceed twenty-two.

4. —There shall be paid to the Attorney-General an annual sum by way of salary not exceeding the sum of £2,500.

5. —(1) There shall be paid to the Chairman of Dáil Eireann an annual sum by way of salary not exceeding the sum of £1,700, and to the Deputy Chairman of Dáil Eireann an annual sum by way of salary not exceeding the sum of £1,000.

(2) Whenever Dáil Eireann is dissolved and the person who was, immediately before the dissolution thereof, the Chairman of Dáil Eireann, has not announced to Dáil Eireann before such dissolution that he does not desire to become a member of Dáil Eireann at the general election consequent on such dissolution, the salary payable under this section to such person shall continue to be paid to him until, on the reassembly of Dáil Eireann after such dissolution, his successor is appointed.

6. —(1) There shall be paid to the Chairman of Seanad Eireann an annual sum by way of salary not exceeding the sum of £1,200, and to the Deputy Chairman of Seanad Eireann an annual sum by way of salary not exceeding the sum of £750.

(2) Whenever there is a general election for Seanad Eireann, the salary payable under this section to the person who was, on the day before the polling day of such general election, the Chairman of Seanad Eireann, shall continue to be paid to such person until, on the reassembly of Seanad Eireann after such general election, his successor is appointed.

7. —(1) Where a member of the Oireachtas who is the holder of an office mentioned in this Part of this Act gives notice in writing to the Minister for Finance that he desires to draw so much only of the salary attached to that office as is equal to the exempted part, there shall be paid, in respect of such salary, to such person a sum equal to the exempted part only.

(2) In this section the expression “the exempted part” when used in relation to a salary means so much of such salary as is, by virtue of sub-section (5) of section 3 of the Oireachtas (Allowances to Members) Act, 1938 (No. 34 of 1938), exempt from income tax (including sur-tax).

8. —Every salary payable under this Part of this Act shall be paid out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas.