Resolution of the House of Commons dated 17th May 1961, passed in pursuance of the House of Commons Members' fund Act, 1948, s, 3 (11 and 12 Geo. 6. c. 36)
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1961/958 |
| Year | 1961 |
1961 No. 958
PARLIAMENT
Resolution of the House of Commons dated 17th May 1961, passed in pursuance of the House of Commons Members' fund Act, 1948, s, 3 (11 and 12 Geo. 6. c. 36)Resolved,
1. That in pursuance of the provisions of section three of the House of Commons Members' Fund Act, 1948, the maximum annual amounts of the periodical payments which may be made out of the House of Commons Members' Fund under the House of Commons Members' Fund Act, 1939(a), as amended toy the said Act of 1948 and by the Resolutions, of the House of 17th November 1955(b) and 7th March 1957(c), be varied as from the first day of June, nineteen hundred and sixty-one, as follows:—
(a) for paragraph 1 of the First Schedule to the said Act of 1939, as so amended (which provides that the annual amount of any periodical payment made to any person by virtue of his past membership of the House of Commons shall not exceed five hundred pounds or such sum as, in the opinion of the trustees, will bring his income up to six hundred and fifty pounds per annum, whichever is the less), there shall be substituted the following paragraph:—
(a) 2 & 3 Geo. 6. c. 49.
(b) S.I, 1956/1668 (1956 II, p. 2993)
(c) S.I. 1957/388 (1957 II. p. 3068).
"1. The annual amount of any periodical payment made to any person by virtue of his past membership of the House of Commons shall not exceed five hundred pounds or such sum as, in the opinion of the trustees, will bring his income up to seven hundred pounds per annum, whichever is the less:
Provided that if, having regard to length of service and need, the trustees think fit, they may make a larger payment not exceeding nine hundred pounds or such sum as, in their opinion, will bring his income up to one thousand one hundred pounds per annum, whichever is the less";
(b) for paragraph 2 of the said Schedule (which provides that the annual amount of any periodical payment made to any person by virtue of being the widow of a past member of the House of Commons shall not exceed three hundred pounds or such sum as, in the opinion of the trustees, will bring her income up to four hundred and fifty pounds per. annum, whichever is the less), there shall be substituted the following paragraph:—
"2. The annual amount of any periodical payment to any person by virtue of her being a widow of a past member of the House of Commons shall not exceed three hundred pounds or such sum as, in the opinion of the trustees, will bring her income up to...
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