Oireachtas (Payment of Members) (Amendment) Act, 1925

In short

This law amends the Oireachtas (Payment of Members) Act, 1923, to exempt certain allowances and parts of salaries for Oireachtas members from income tax and to prevent these payments from causing the suspension or reduction of their pensions.

What it regulates

Exemption of allowances from income tax (including super-tax).
Exemption of a specific portion of salaries from income tax (including super-tax).
Relief from the suspension or abatement of pensions due to these allowances or salary portions.
Repayment of excess income tax paid if this section had been in force.

Who it concerns

Members of the Oireachtas receiving allowances under the Oireachtas (Payment of Members) Act, 1923.
Members of the Oireachtas holding offices mentioned in sub-section (2) of section 2 of the Oireachtas (Payment of Members) Act, 1923, who receive a salary.

Key points

Allowances payable to Oireachtas members under sub-section (1) of section 2 of the 1923 Act are, and are deemed always to have been, exempt from income tax (including super-tax).
A portion of the salary for Oireachtas members holding certain offices, equal to the allowance they would otherwise receive, is, and is deemed always to have been, exempt from income tax (including super-tax).
No pension payable out of public moneys will be suspended or reduced because of these allowances or the exempted portion of salaries.
Any person who paid excess income tax or super-tax due to these provisions not being in force is entitled to a repayment of the excess.

Legal text

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(1)The allowances payable to members of the Oireachtas under sub-section

(1)of section 2 of the Oireachtas (Payment of Members) Act, 1923 (No. 18 of 1923) shall be and shall be deemed always to have been exempt from income tax (including super-tax) and shall not be reckoned in computing income for the purposes of the Income Tax Acts.

(2)So much of the salary for the time being payable to a member of the Oireachtas by virtue of his holding any of the offices mentioned in sub-section

(2)of the said section 2 of the said Act as is equal to the allowance which would be payable to such member under sub-section

(1)of the said section if he did not hold such office shall be and shall be deemed always to have been exempt from income tax (including super-tax) and shall not be reckoned in computing income for the purposes of the Income Tax Acts.

(3)If any person has paid income tax or super-tax of an amount exceeding that which he would have been liable to pay if this section had been in force he shall on proof of the facts to the satisfaction of the Special Commissioners be entitled to repayment of the excess. Relief from suspension or abatement of pensions. 2.—

(1)No provision in any British Statute or in any Act of the Oireachtas heretofore passed or (unless the contrary is expressly enacted therein) to be hereafter passed whereby any pension payable out of public moneys is liable to be suspended or abated, wholly or in part, in the event of the pensioner being in receipt of payments (by whatever name called in such Statute or Act) out of moneys provided or to be provided by the Oireachtas shall apply to the allowances payable to members of the Oireachtas under sub-section

(1)of section 2 of the Oireachtas (Payment of Members) Act, 1923 (No. 18 of 1923), nor shall any such pension be suspended or abated in respect or on account of any such allowance.

(2)No such provision as is mentioned in the foregoing sub-section shall apply or be deemed ever to have applied to so much of the salary for the time being payable to a member of the Oireachtas by virtue of his holding any of the offices mentioned in sub-section

(2)of the said section 2 of the said Act as is equal to the allowance which would be payable to such member under sub-section

(1)of the said section if he did not hold such office, nor shall any pension payable out of public moneys be or be deemed ever to have been suspended or abated in respect or on account of so much as aforesaid of any such salary.

(3)In this section the expression “public moneys” means and includes the Central Fund and moneys provided by the Oireachtas. Short title. 3.—This Act may be cited as the Oireachtas (Payment of Members) (Amendment) Act, 1925. Privacy Statement Accessibility European Legislation Identifier (PDF) Open Data License Ráiteas Príobháideachais Inrochtaineacht Aitheantóir Eorpach Reachtaíochta (ELI) Ceadúnas Sonraí Oscailte Liosta Fianán © Government of Ireland. Oireachtas Copyright Material is reproduced with the permission of the Houses of the Oireachtas © Rialtas na hÉireann. Atáirgtear ábhar faoi Chóipcheart le cead ó Thithe an Oireachtais

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