Ministers of the Crown (Treasury Secretaries) Act 1947
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1947 c. 5 |
| Year | 1947 |
Ministers of the Crown (Treasury Secretaries) Act, 1947
(11 & 12 Geo. 6.) CHAPTER 5.
An Act to provide for the salary of an Economic Secretary to the Treasury, and to render the holder of that office capable of being elected to, and of sitting and voting in, the House of Commons.
[10th December 1947]
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 Amendments of 1 Edw. 8. & 1 Geo. 6. c. 38.
1. The Ministers of the Crown Act, 1937, shall have effect subject to the following amendments, that is to say—
a
) in paragraph (a
) of subsection (2) of section one (which
subsection specifies the salaries payable to the Parliamentary
Under-Secretaries to the Departments of State),
for the words ‘in the case of the Financial Secretary to
the Treasury’ there shall be substituted the words ‘in
the case of the Economic Secretary to the Treasury and
in the case of the Financial Secretary to the Treasury’;
b
) in paragraph (a
) of subsection (2) of section two (which
subsection limits the number of Parliamentary Under-Secretaries
to the Departments of State to whom
salaries may be paid under that Act), for the words
‘in the case of the Treasury . . . two’ there shall be
substituted the words ‘in the case of the Treasury . . .
three’; and
c
) in section ten, in the definition of ‘Parliamentary
Under-Secretary’, for the words ‘the Financial
Secretary to the Treasury’ there shall be substituted
the words ‘the Economic Secretary to the Treasury
and the Financial Secretary to the Treasury’.
2 Short title.
2. This Act may be cited as theMinisters of the Crown (Treasury Secretaries) Act, 1947.
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