House of Commons Members' Fund Act 1948
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House of Commons Members' Fund Act, 1948
(11 & 12 Geo. 6.) CHAPTER 36.
An Act to amend the House of Commons Members' Fund Act, 1939.
[30th June 1948]
Be it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
1 Payments to widowers of past members.
(1) Subject to the provisions of this section, the objects of the fund established under the House of Commons Members' Fund Act, 1939 and (2) of section one of that Act shall have effect as if in each of those subsections after the word ‘widows’ there were inserted the words ‘or widowers’.
(2) The First Schedule to the principal Act (which imposes limitations on the payments which may be made out of the fund) shall have effect as if after paragraph 2 there were inserted the following paragraph:—
2A
‘2A. No payment shall be made to any person by virtue of his being the widower of a past member of the House of Commons unless, in the opinion of the trustees, he is, and was before his wife's death, incapable by reason of age or mental or bodily infirmity of earning his living; and the annual amount of any periodical payment made to any such person shall not exceed one hundred and fifty pounds or such sum as, in the opinion of the trustees, will bring his income up to two hundred and twenty-five pounds per annum, whichever is the less.’
2 Increase of annual payments to past members, widows and children.
(1) Paragraph 1 of the First Schedule to the principal Act (which prescribes the annual amount of any periodical payments which may be made to past members of the House of Commons) shall have effect as if for the words ‘one hundred and fifty pounds’ there were substituted the words ‘two hundred and fifty pounds’, and as if for the words ‘two hundred and twenty-five pounds’ there were substituted the words ‘three hundred and twenty-five pounds’.
(2) Paragraph 2 of that Schedule (which prescribes the annual amount of any periodical payments which may be made to the widows of past members of the House of Commons) shall have effect as if for the words ‘seventy-five pounds’ there were substituted the words ‘one hundred and fifty pounds’ and as if for the words ‘one hundred and twenty-five pounds’ there were substituted the words ‘two hundred and twenty-five pounds’.
(3) For paragraph 4 of the said Schedule (which relates to the payments which may be made in respect of the children of past members of the House of Commons) there shall be substituted the following paragraph:—
4.
(1) No payment shall be made in respect of any child of a past member of the House of Commons after the child has attained the age of sixteen years.
(2) Where any periodical payment is made in respect of only one child of a past member, the annual amount of that payment shall not exceed—
(a ) if both of his parents are dead, one hundred pounds; and
(b ) if one of his parents is living, fifty pounds.
(3) Where any periodical payment is made in respect of two or more children of a past member, the annual amount of that payment shall not exceed—
(a ) if both of their parents are dead, seventy-five pounds in respect of each of those children; and
(b ) if one of their parents is living, fifty pounds in respect of the eldest of those children and thirty pounds in respect of each of those children other than the eldest.’
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