{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ministerial-and-other-pensions-and-salaries-act-1991/section-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ministerial-and-other-pensions-and-salaries-act-1991/section-5.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1991/5",
  "legislation_title": "Ministerial and other Pensions and Salaries Act 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ministerial-and-other-pensions-and-salaries-act-1991",
  "path": "section/5",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Allowance for ministerial and other office-holders in House of Lords.",
  "text": "(1) An allowance shall be payable under this section to—\n(a) any member of the House of Lords who holds an office in respect of which a salary is payable in accordance with Schedule 1 to the Ministerial and other Salaries Act 1975 (ministerial salaries);\n(b) any member of that House who holds a position in respect of which a salary is payable in accordance with Schedule 2 to that Act (Leader of Opposition and Chief Opposition Whip); ...\n(ba) the Speaker of the House of Lords; and\n(c) the Chairman of Committees and Principal Deputy Chairman of Committees of that House.\n(2) The allowance shall be payable from 6th April 1990 and—\n(a) for the period beginning with that date and ending on 31st July 1990, shall be £4,672;\n(b) for any year, or part of a year, beginning on or after 1st August 1990, shall be such amount as may be specified by or determined in accordance with an Order in Council.\n(3) An Order in Council under subsection (2)(b) above may provide for the amount for any year, or part of a year, to be calculated by applying a specified multiplier to the maximum daily amount which, under any Resolution of the House of Lords, is recoverable in that year or part by a member of that House, other than one to whom this section applies, in respect of his expenses in staying overnight away from his main or only residence.\n(4) The allowance payable under this section to the holder of an office shall not be regarded as part of his salary in respect of that office for pension purposes or for the purposes of section 4 above.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in s. 5(1)(b) omitted by virtue of The Lord Chancellor (Transfer of Functions and Supplementary Provisions) (No. 3) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/1640), art. 4, Sch. 2 para. 8(a) (with saving in art. 2) (the omission coming into force on the day after the day on which the Lord Chancellor ceased to hold the office of Speaker of the House of Lords in accordance with art. 1 of the omitting S.I.)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 5(1)(ba) inserted by The Lord Chancellor (Transfer of Functions and Supplementary Provisions) (No. 3) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/1640), art. 4, Sch. 2 para. 8(b) (with saving in art. 2) (the amendment coming into force on the day after the day on which the Lord Chancellor ceased to hold the office of Speaker of the House of Lords in accordance with art. 1 of the amending S.I.)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1975 c. 27."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 5 amended by S.I. 1991/772, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 5(1)(a) excluded (1.3.2021) by Ministerial and other Maternity Allowances Act 2021 (c. 5), ss. 3(5), 7(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "S. 5(1)(b) modified (1.3.2021) by Ministerial and other Maternity Allowances Act 2021 (c. 5), ss. 6(1), 7(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1991/5/section/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:41:24.029143+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."
}