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Ministerial and other Salaries Act 1975

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1 Salaries.U.K.

(1)Subject to the provisions of this Act—

(a)there shall be paid to the holder of any Ministerial office specified in Schedule 1 to this Act such salary as is provided for by that Schedule; and

(b)there shall be paid to the Leaders and Whips of the Opposition such salaries as are provided for by Schedule 2 to this Act.

(2)There shall be paid to the Lord Chancellor a salary (which shall be charged on and paid out of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom) at such rate as together with the salary payable to him as Speaker of the House of Lords will amount to [F1[F2£2,500]] a year more than the salary for the time being payable to the Lord Chief Justice , . . . F3.

(3)There shall be paid to the Speaker of the House of Commons a salary (which shall be charged on and paid out of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom) of [F4£46,156] a year; and on a dissolution of Parliament the Speaker of the House of Commons at the time of the dissolution shall for this purpose be deemed to remain Speaker until a Speaker is chosen by the new Parliament.

(4)Her Majesty may from time to time by Order in Council substitute another figure for that given [F5by subsection (2) above as the annual amount by which the salary is to exceed that of the Lord Chief Justice or by subsection (3) above] or by Schedule 1 or 2 to this Act as the annual amount, or as the case may be the maximum or minimum annual amount, of any salary; but no recommendation shall be made to Her Majesty to make an Order in Council under this subsection unless a draft of the Order has been approved by resolution of each House of Parliament or, if it relates only to the salary to be paid to the Speaker of the House of Commons under subsection (3) above, by resolution of that House.

(5)A person to whom any salary is payable under subsection (1) above shall be entitled to receive only one such salary, but if he is the holder of two or more offices in respect of which a salary is so payable and there is a difference between the salaries payable in respect of those offices, the office in respect of which a salary is payable to him shall be that in respect of which the highest salary is payable.

Subordinate Legislation Made

P1S. 1 power exercised by S.I. 1989/681

P2S. 1(4): s. 1 (4) power exercised (19.12.1991) by S.I. 1991/2886

Textual Amendments

F1Words in s. 1(2) substituted by Ministerial and other Pensions and Salaries Act 1991 (c. 5, SIF 89), s. 3(1)

F2Amount in s. 1(2) substituted (24.7.1996) by S.I. 1996/1913, art. 4

F4Amount in s. 1(3) substituted (24.7.1996) by S.I. 1996/1913, art. 5(a)

F5Words in s. 1(4) substituted by Ministerial and other Pensions and Salaries Act 1991 (c. 5, SIF 89), s. 3(2)

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