Ministerial Salaries Act 1946
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1946 c. 55 |
| Year | 1946 |
Ministerial Salaries Act, 1946
(9 & 10 Geo. 6.) CHAPTER 55.
An Act to make further provision as to the salaries of certain Ministers of the Crown and other persons, and as to the payment of salaries or allowances as Members of Parliament to persons in receipt of salaries or pensions under the Ministers of the Crown Act, 1937.
[6th June 1946]
B E 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 Increase in salaries of certain Ministers.
(1) The maximum amount of the annual salary payable under the Ministers of the Crown Act, 1937—
(a ) to the Postmaster-General, shall be increased to five thousand pounds;
(b ) to the Minister of Pensions, shall be increased to three thousand pounds;
(c ) to the Assistant Postmaster-General, shall be increased to fifteen hundred pounds.
(2) The salary payable to the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Pensions under section five of the Ministry of Pensions Act, 1916 , shall be an annual salary of an amount not exceeding fifteen hundred pounds.
(3) If and so long as the salary paid to the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster in respect of his office otherwise than out of moneys provided by Parliament is less than three thousand pounds a year, there may be paid to him out of moneys so provided an additional salary in respect of his office of an amount not exceeding the deficiency.
(4) The amount of the annual salary payable out of moneys provided by Parliament to such one of the officers to whom this subsection applies as the Treasury may determine shall be twelve hundred pounds, and the amount of the salary payable to each of the said officers other than the officer so determined shall be one thousand pounds.
This subsection applies to the Treasurer, the Comptroller, and the Vice-Chamberlain of His Majesty's Household and to the Junior Lords of the Treasury to whom salaries are payable under the Ministers of the Crown Act, 1937.
2 Salaries of certain officers of the Household.
2. The salaries—
shall be...
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