{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ministerial-and-other-salaries-act-1975/section-1A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ministerial-and-other-salaries-act-1975/section-1A.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1975/27",
  "legislation_title": "Ministerial and other Salaries Act 1975",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ministerial-and-other-salaries-act-1975",
  "path": "section/1A",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1A",
  "heading": "Alteration of salaries.",
  "text": "(1) For each period of 12 months beginning with 1st April, the annual amount of any salary payable under section 1 is to be increased by the relevant percentage.\n(2) The relevant percentage is the average percentage by which the mid-points of the Senior Civil Service pay bands below that of permanent secretary, having effect from 1st April of the period concerned, have increased compared with the previous 1st April.\n(2A) But in relation to the period of 12 months beginning with 1st April 2026, the relevant percentage is—\n(a) the relevant percentage determined in accordance with subsection (2), or\n(b) if higher, the average percentage by which the mid-points of the Senior Civil Service pay bands (including that of permanent secretary), having effect from 1st April 2026, have increased compared with 1st April 2025.\n(3) The mid-point of a Senior Civil Service pay band is the point half way between the maximum and the minimum.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 1A, 1B inserted (6.11.1997) by 1997 c. 62, s. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 1A(1)-(2A) substituted (with effect for the period of 12 months beginning with 1.4.2026 and each successive period of 12 months) by The Ministerial and other Salaries Act 1975 (Amendment) Order 2026 (S.I. 2026/592), arts. 1(2), 2(3), 6"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 1A modified (10.7.2008) by The Ministerial and other Salaries Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/1781), arts. 1(2), 2(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1975/27/section/1A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:38:42.366521+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."
}