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salary was not or is not being paid at any relevant time, whether for the reason that there was not or is not any such office at that time or for any other reason, then, for the purposes of this Act, salary shall be deemed to have been or to be paid in respect of that office at that time at such annual rate as the Minister determines.".

Formal and other minor amendments
14. The Principal Act is amended as set out in the Schedule.

Members retiring after 30 June 1980 not to suffer loss
15. (1) Where—
      (a) a person ceased to be entitled to a parliamentary allowance after 30 June 1980 and before the commencing day; and
      (b) the rate at which additional retiring allowance would, but for this sub-section, have been payable to him under the Principal Act as amended by this Act at the time when he so ceased to be entitled to a parliamentary allowance is less than the rate by which the retiring allowance that, but for sub-section 18 (9) of the Principal Act, would have been payable to him under the Principal Act at the time when he so ceased to be entitled to a parliamentary allowance was increased by virtue of the operation of sub-section 18 (9) of the Principal Act,

section 18 of the Principal Act continues to apply to and in relation to him as if the amendments made by section 6 of this Act had not been made.

(2) Where—
     (a) a person who was entitled to a parliamentary allowance immediately before the commencing day ceases to be entitled to that allowance on or after that day; and
     (b) the rate at which additional retiring allowance would, but for this sub-section, be payable under sub-section 18 (9) of the Principal Act as amended by this Act is less than the highest rate (in this sub-section referred to as the "maximum old rate") by which the retiring allowance that, but for sub-section 18 (9) of the Principal Act, would have been payable to him under the Principal Act at any time after 11 June 1978 and before the commencing day would have been increased by virtue of the operation of sub-section 18 (9) of the Principal Act if—
         (i) the member had retired at that time and, in the case of a member who had not attained the age of 60 years at that time, had been deemed for the purposes of Part V of the Principal Act, to have retired voluntarily at that time;
         (ii) the rate at which parliamentary allowance was payable to the member immediately before that time were the rate at which parliamentary allowance was payable