Oireachtas (Allowances To Members) Act, 1962

In short

This law extends previous Oireachtas (Allowances To Members) Acts and provides for specific allowances and facilities for members of Dáil Éireann and Seanad Éireann. It primarily focuses on overnight allowances and communication facilities for members.

What it regulates

Overnight allowances for members whose normal residence is outside the Dublin area.
Free telephone calls from Leinster House for members.
Free postal facilities for members related to their parliamentary duties.
The making of regulations by the Minister for Finance for the purposes of this Act.

Who it concerns

Members of Dáil Éireann.
Members of Seanad Éireann.

Key points

An overnight allowance is paid to members of Dáil Éireann or Seanad Éireann whose normal residence is not in the Dublin area, if they stay overnight in Dublin for a meeting or because a meeting ended too late for them to return home.
The amount of the overnight allowance is sanctioned by the Minister for Finance.
Members are granted free telephone calls from Leinster House.
Members are granted free postal facilities for their parliamentary duties.
The Minister for Finance can make regulations for this Act, which must be laid before each House of the Oireachtas.
This Act came into operation on the 1st day of January, 1963.

Legal text

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(1)In this section— “the Dublin area” means such area inclusive of the county borough of Dublin as may be declared by regulations to be for the purposes of this section the Dublin area; “member to whom this section applies” means a member of Dáil Éireann or Seanad Éireann whose normal place of residence for the time being is not in the Dublin area; “meeting” means a meeting of— (a) Dáil Éireann or Seanad Éireann, or (b) a committee of Dáil Éireann or Seanad Éireann of which the member to whom this section applies is a member.

(2)Where a member to whom this section applies makes an overnight stay in the Dublin area because— (

a)he proposes to attend a meeting next day, or (
b)a meeting which he attended terminated too late to allow of his return home on the same day, he shall be paid out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas an overnight allowance in respect of accommodation of the amount for the time being sanctioned by the Minister for Finance for the purposes of this section. Telephone and postal facilities. 2.—The following facilities shall, subject to such exceptions, restrictions and conditions as may be provided for by regulations, be granted to a member of Dáil Éireann or Seanad Éireann: (
a)free telephone calls from Leinster House, (
b)free postal facilities arising out of his parliamentary duties. Regulations. 3.—

(1)The Minister for Finance may make regulations for the purposes of this Act.

(2)Every regulation made under this section shall be laid before each House of the Oireachtas as soon as may be after it is made and, if a resolution annulling the regulation is passed by either such House within the next subsequent twenty-one days on which that House has sat after the regulation is laid before it, the regulation shall be annulled accordingly but without prejudice to anything previously done thereunder. Short title, commencement and collective citation. 4.—

(1)This Act may be cited as the Oireachtas (Allowances to Members) Act, 1962.

(2)This Act shall come into operation on the 1st day of January, 1963.

(3)The Oireachtas (Allowances to Members) Acts, 1938 to 1960, and this Act may be cited together as the Oireachtas (Allowances to Members) Acts, 1938 to 1962. 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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