Section 17A: Payment of retiring allowances to members

17A. Payment of retiring allowances to members (1) Nothing contained in and nothing done under the authority of a law shall be held to be inconsistent with or in contravention of any provision of this Constitution to— (a) the extent that the law in question makes provision for reducing, limiting, modifying, or withholding the payment of any retiring allowances to any serving or former member of the National Assembly; and (b) the extent that the law in question makes provision for its coming into operation with retrospective effect. (2) References in this section to the law relating to the payment of retiring allowances include (without prejudice to their generality) references to the law regulating the circumstances in which such retiring allowances may be paid or in which the grant of such retiring allowances may be refused, the law regulating the circumstances in which any such retiring allowances that have been granted may be reduced in amount, limited, modified or withheld and the law regulating the amount of any such retiring allowances. [S. 17A inserted by Act 4 of 1996.]