# The Lord Chancellor’s Salary Order 1988

S.I. 1988/1088 · made 22 June 1988

This Order increases the total salary payable to the Lord Chancellor under the Ministerial and other Salaries Act 1975 and as Speaker of the House of Lords. The Order provides for the Lord Chancellor to receive a £2,000 lead over the Lord Chief Justice.

Made under: Ministerial and other Salaries Act 1975

PDFs: Printed copy https://openlegislation.uk/lord-chancellors-salary-order-1988/pdf/uksi_19881088_en.pdf

## Introductory text

PARLIAMENT
Made 22nd June 1988
Coming into force 22nd June 1988
At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 22nd day of June 1988
Present,
The Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council
Whereas a draft of this Order has been approved by resolution of each House of Parliament:
Now, therefore, Her Majesty, in pursuance of section 1(4) of the Ministerial and other Salaries Act 1975 and of all other powers enabling Her in that behalf, is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:—

## 1 Citation, commencement and revocation

(1) This Order may be cited as the Lord Chancellor’s Salary Order 1988.
(2) This Order shall come into force on the day on which it is made.
(3) The Lord Chancellor’s Salary Order 1987 is hereby revoked.

## 2 Increase of Lord Chancellor’s salary

For the amount specified in subsection (2) of section 1 of the Ministerial and other Salaries Act 1975 as the aggregate annual amount of the salary payable to the Lord Chancellor under that subsection and the salary payable to him as Speaker of the House of Lords there shall be substituted—
(a) for the period beginning with the day on which this Order is made and ending with 30th September 1988, £86,240;
(b) for any subsequent period, £87,250.

## Signature

G. I. de Deney
Clerk of the Privy Council

## Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order increases the total salary payable to the Lord Chancellor under the Ministerial and other Salaries Act 1975 and as Speaker of the House of Lords. The Order provides for the Lord Chancellor to receive a £2,000 lead over the Lord Chief Justice.

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