Section 6: Opposition leave: other provision
Subsection (1) provides that where an Opposition office holder in the House of Lords is on maternity leave, that person is not eligible for the Lords Office Holder Allowance (under section 5(1)(b) of the Ministerial and other Pensions and Salaries Act 1991); rather it is the person appointed to cover the maternity leave who is eligible for that allowance.
	Subsection (2) states that service as a covering person paid under section 4(1) of the Act is to be treated as if it were service as an Opposition office holder for the purposes of the provision in the Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010 which allows those offices to be covered by the Ministerial Pension Scheme. No equivalent provision is needed to allow service as a Minister on Leave to be pensionable since that scheme is already open to them because of their ministerial status.