{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/european-parliament-pay-and-pensions-act-1979/section-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/european-parliament-pay-and-pensions-act-1979/section-7.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1979/50",
  "legislation_title": "European Parliament (Pay and Pensions) Act 1979",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/european-parliament-pay-and-pensions-act-1979",
  "path": "section/7",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Expenses and receipts.",
  "text": "(1) There shall be charged on and paid out of the Consolidated Fund—\n(a) all salaries payable under section 1;\n(b) any allowance payable under section 3;\n(c) all pensions and other sums payable by the Treasury under the provisions of a scheme made under section 4 ...; and\n(d) any sum directed to be paid as mentioned in subsection (1) of section 6 by a direction under that section.\n(2) Any sums required by a secondary Class 1 contributor for the purpose of paying any secondary Class 1 contributions which are payable by him in respect of an earner in consequence of the earner’s employment in the office of Representative for the electoral region of Northern Ireland shall be paid out of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom.\nExpressions used in this subsection and Part I of the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Act 1975 have the same meanings in this subsection as in that Part.\n(3) There shall be paid out of money provided by Parliament—\n(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(b) any administrative expenses incurred by a government department in consequence of this Act; and\n(c) any increase attributable to this Act in the sums payable out of money so provided under any other Act.\n(4) Any sums received by a government department in consequence of this Act shall be paid into the Consolidated Fund.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in s. 7(1)(b) substituted (24.5.2011) by Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010 (c. 25), ss. 39(4), 52; S.I. 2011/1274, art. 2(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 7(1)(c) substituted (1.11.2013) by Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010 (c. 25), s. 52, Sch. 6 para. 40(2)(a); S.I. 2013/2826, art. 2(b)(ii) (with art. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 7(1)(c) omitted (1.11.2013) by virtue of Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010 (c. 25), s. 52, Sch. 6 para. 40(2)(b); S.I. 2013/2826, art. 2(b)(ii) (with art. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 7(1)(d) substituted (1.11.2013) by Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010 (c. 25), s. 52, Sch. 6 para. 40(3); S.I. 2013/2826, art. 2(b)(ii) (with art. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 7(2) substituted (1.5.1999) by 1999 c. 1, s. 3(2), Sch. 3 para. 2(b); S.I. 1999/717, art. 2(1) (with art. 2(3))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "S. 7(3)(a) omitted (14.7.2009) by The European Parliament (Pay and Pensions) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/1485), reg. 2(7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1975 c. 15."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 7(2) continued (24.10.2002) by 2002 c. 24, ss. 15, 18(2), Sch. 3 para. 4(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1979/50/section/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:17:04.692113+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}