The Lord Chancellor’s Salary Order 1987

Made: 18th May 1987

Coming into force: 18th May 1987

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 18th day of May 1987 Present, The Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council

Now, therefore, Her Majesty, in pursuance of section 1(4) of the Ministerial and other Salaries Act 1975[^f00001] and of all other powers enabling Her in that behalf, is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:—

Citation, commencement and revocation

1

• (1) This Order may be cited as the Lord Chancellor’s Salary Order 1987.

• (2) This Order shall come into force on 18th May 1987.

• (3) The Lord Chancellor’s Salary Order 1986[^f00002] is hereby revoked.

Increase of Lord Chancellor’s salary

2

For the amount specified in subsection (2) of section 1 of the Ministerial and other Salaries Act 1975 as the aggregate annual amount of the salary payable to the Lord Chancellor under that subsection and the salary payable to him as Speaker of the House of Lords there shall be substituted—

• (a) for the period beginning with 18th May 1987 and ending with 30th September 1987, £82,690;

• (b) for any subsequent period, £83,000.

Signed

G. I. de Deney — Clerk of the Privy Council

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order increases the total salary payable to the Lord Chancellor under the Ministerial and Other Salaries Act 1975 and as Speaker of the House of Lords. The Order provides for the Lord Chancellor to receive a £2,000 lead over the Lord Chief Justice. The salary quoted may be not the actual salary claimed.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1975 c. 27.

[^f00002]: S.I. 1986/1169.