[F1 1A Alteration of salaries. U.K.

(1) For each [F2 relevant period, the annual amount] of any salary payable under [F3 section 1(1),[F4 (2)(a) or (b),] (3) or (3A)] of this Act shall be increased by the relevant percentage.

[F5 (1A) “Relevant period” means—

(a) the period beginning with the day after the day on which the relevant Parliament is dissolved and ending with the following 31st March (“the first relevant period”), and

(b) each successive period of 12 months.

(1B) The “relevant Parliament” means the Parliament in which subsection (1A) comes into force.]

(2) The relevant percentage is the average percentage by which the mid-points of the Senior Civil Service pay bands having effect from 1st April of the [F6 period] concerned have increased compared with the previous 1st April.

[F7 (2A) If the first relevant period does not begin on 1st April, in relation to that period the reference in subsection (2) to 1st April of the period concerned is to be read as a reference to 1st April before the beginning of the first relevant period.]

(3) The mid-point of a Senior Civil Service pay band is the point half way between the maximum and the minimum.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Ss. 1A, 1B inserted (6.11.1997) by 1997 c. 62, s. 1(2)

F2 Words in s. 1A(1) substituted (14.7.2011) by The Ministerial and other Salaries Act 1975 (Amendment) Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/1689), arts. 1, 4(a)

F3 Words in s. 1A(1) substituted by The Lord Chancellor (Transfer of Functions and Supplementary Provisions) (No. 3) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/1640), art. 4, Sch. 2 para. 4 (with saving in art. 2) (the amendment coming into force on the day after the day on which the Lord Chancellor ceased to hold the office of Speaker of the House of Lords in accordance with art. 1 of the amending S.I.)

F4 Words in s. 1A(1) inserted (25.4.2013) by Public Service Pensions Act 2013 (c. 25), s. 41(1)(b), Sch. 11 para. 3(4) (with Sch. 11 para. 8)

F5 S. 1A(1A)(1B) inserted (14.7.2011) by The Ministerial and other Salaries Act 1975 (Amendment) Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/1689), arts. 1, 4(b)

F6 Word in s. 1A(2) substituted (14.7.2011) by The Ministerial and other Salaries Act 1975 (Amendment) Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/1689), arts. 1, 4(c)

F7 S. 1A(2A) inserted (14.7.2011) by The Ministerial and other Salaries Act 1975 (Amendment) Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/1689), arts. 1, 4(d)

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 S. 1A modified (10.7.2008) by The Ministerial and other Salaries Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/1781), arts. 1(2), 2(2)