# Parliamentary And Other Pensions And Salaries Act 1976, Section 2: Power to increase contributions from office holders.


In section 4 of the Act of 1972 (contributions from participants in office-holders’ scheme) after subsection (3) there shall be inserted the following subsection—
“(3A) Her Majesty may from time to time by Order in Council direct that any salary specified in the Order shall be regarded for the purposes of subsection (2) or, as the case may be, subsection (3) of this section as being payable at such higher rate as may be so specified; but no recommendation shall be made to Her Majesty to make an Order under this subsection unless a draft of the Order has been approved by resolution of each House of Parliament or, if it relates only to salaries payable in respect of the offices of Chairman of Ways and Means and Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means, by resolution of the House of Commons. An Order in Council made under this subsection may be varied or revoked by a subsequent Order so made.”

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1976/48/section/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/parliamentary-and-other-pensions-and-salaries-act-1976/section-2
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