Members of Parliament Retiring Allowances Regulations

5 (1) Instalments of an allowance payable under section 12, 24 or 25 of the Act shall be paid on the last day of each month.

(2) Where a member becomes entitled to an allowance after the first day of any calendar month, the instalment that is payable on the last day of that month shall be that proportion of the instalment for a full month that is payable to that member that the number of days in that month on which the member is so entitled is of the total number of days in that month.

(3) Where a person to whom an allowance is payable under section 12, 24 or 25 of the Act dies in any calendar month on a day other than the last day of that month, the amount of the instalment that is payable in respect of him for that month is that proportion of the instalment payable to him for a whole month that the number of days in the month prior to and including the day on which he died is of the total number of days in that month.

(4) Where a person who is in receipt of an allowance under section 12, 24 or 25 of the Act ceases to be entitled thereto, payment may be made in respect of the full month in which that person ceased to be entitled to that allowance.