The Ministerial and other Salaries Order 1993

Made: 16th December 1993

Coming into force: 1st January 1994

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 16th day of December 1993 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], is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:–

Citatation, commencement and revocation

1

• (1) This Order may be cited as the Ministerial and other Salaries Order 1993.

• (2) This Order shall come into force on 1st January 1994.

• (3) The Ministerial and other Salaries Order 1991[^f00002] is hereby revoked.

Increase of Ministerial salaries

2

For the annual amount, or the maximum or minimum annual amount, of salary specified in Parts I, II, III and IV of Schedule 1 to the Ministerial and other Salaries Act 1975 (“the 1975 Act”) in relation to each of the offices specified in the first column of Schedule 1 to this Order there shall be substituted the amount, or the maximum or minimum amount, of salary specified in relation to that office in the second column of that Schedule.

Increase of salaries of Opposition Leaders and Whips

3

For the annual amount of salary specified in Part I of Schedule 2 to the 1975 Act in relation to each of the positions specified in the first column of Schedule 2 to this Order there shall be substituted the amount specified in relation to that position in the second column of that Schedule.

Increase of the Speaker’s salary

4

For the annual amount specified in section 1(3) of the 1975 Act as the salary of the Speaker of the House of Commons there shall be substituted £42,909.

SCHEDULE 1 — MINISTERIAL SALARIES

PART I

PART II

1

Any of the offices listed at (a) to (g) in Part I above for so long as the holder is not a member of the Cabinet

2

Minister in charge of a public department of Her Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom who is not a member of the Cabinet, and whose office is not specified elsewhere in this Schedule

3

Financial Secretary to the Treasury

PART III

PART IV

SCHEDULE 2 — OPPOSITION LEADERS AND WHIPS

Signed

N. H. Nicholls — Clerk of the Privy Council

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order increases salaries payable under the Ministerial and other Salaries Act 1975 to Ministers, to salaried Members of the Opposition, to the Speaker of the House of Commons and to other paid office holders. The amounts specified in this Order (other than Part II of Schedule 1) are the maximum salaries payable. The actual salaries in payment may therefore be below these levels.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1975 c. 27.