The House of Commons Members' Fund Order 1981

Made: 11th May 1981

Laid before the House of Commons: 19th May 1981

Coming into Operation: 15th June 1981

The Treasury, in exercise of their powers under subsections (2) and (3) of section 1 of the House of Commons Members' Fund Act 1957 and section 3 of the House of Commons Members' Fund and Parliamentary Pensions Act 1981, and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Order:—

Citation and Commencement

1

This Order may be cited as the House of Commons Members' Fund Order 1981 and shall come into operation on 15th June 1981.

Increase in Maximum Annual Contribution

2

The Treasury hereby direct that the maximum amount of the annual contributions payable under subsection (1) of section 1 of the House of Commons Members' Fund Act 1957 shall be increased by one hundred and ninety-three thousand pounds from twenty-two thousand pounds to two hundred and fifteen thousand pounds and that the whole of the increase shall be excluded from the application (under subsection (4) of that section) of section 4(4) of the House of Commons Members' Fund Act 1948 (power of House of Commons to appropriate part of contributions for alleviation of special hardship).

Revocation of Previous Order

3

The House of Commons Members' Fund Order 1961 is hereby revoked.

Signed

John Wakeham — J. A. Douglas-Hamilton — Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury — 11th May 1981

Explanatory note

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Order authorises an increase of £193,000 from £22,000 to £215,000 in the maximum amount of annual Exchequer contributions to the House of Commons Members' Fund but excludes the whole of the increase from the power of the House of Commons to appropriate part of the contributions for the alleviation of special hardship.