Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices Act 1938

F51[Special provisions for calculating appropriate salary of certain former Attorneys General.

13AB

13AB.(1) This section applies to a person who has, before or after the commencement of this section, held the office of Attorney General but who, for some or all of the time while holding that office, was not also a member of a House of the Oireachtas.

(2) If a person to whom this section applies is entitled to a ministerial pension calculated in accordance with section 13A or 13AA, the appropriate salary for the purposes of calculating the person's pension entitlement under that section is an amount calculated in accordance with the following formula:

AS =

ND × S1

+

(TD - ND) × S2

TD

TD

where

AS is the appropriate salary to be determined, and

ND is the number of days (not exceeding 3,650) during which the person held office as Attorney General while not also being a member of a House of the Oireachtas, and

TD is the total number of days (not exceeding 3,650) of the person's ministerial service, and

S1 is the annual salary currently payable to a person who holds office as Attorney General while not being a member of a House of the Oireachtas, and

S2 is the annual salary payable to a member of the Government other than the Taoiseach and the Tánaiste.

(3) If a person to whom this section applies is entitled to a ministerial pension calculated in accordance with section 14, the appropriate salary for the purposes of calculating the person's pension entitlement under that section is an amount calculated in accordance with the following formula:

AS =

ND × S1

+

(TD - ND) × S2

TD

TD

where

AS is the amount of salary to be determined, and

ND is the number of days (not exceeding 2,920) during which the person served as Attorney General while not also being a member of either House of the Oireachtas, and

TD is the total number of days (not exceeding 2,920) of the person's ministerial service, and

S1 is the annual salary currently payable to a person who holds office as Attorney General while not being a member of a House of the Oireachtas, and

S2 is the annual salary payable to a member of the Government other than the Taoiseach and the Tánaiste.

(4) In the case of a person who held the office of Attorney General before the commencement of this section, subsections (2) and (3) apply only on and from that commencement.]

Annotations

Amendments:

F51

Inserted (16.07.2001) by Ministerial, Parliamentary and Judicial Offices and Oireachtas Members (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2001 (33/2001), s. 13, commenced on enactment as per s. 1(2).