Commentary Payments on loss of office Section 1: Payments on ceasing to hold office as Mayor or Assembly member
22.Section 1 inserts into the GLA Act 1999 a new section 26A. Sections 24 to 26 of the 1999 Act provide for the Mayor and Assembly members to be paid salaries and expenses and to establish a pension scheme. The new section enables the Authority to establish and administer schemes allowing for a Mayor or Assembly member to receive a payment on ceasing to hold office. A scheme may be set up if the Mayor and Assembly, acting jointly, decide to establish one.
23.The Assembly is required to include in its standing orders provision for publishing each determination made in relation to a scheme set up under this section.