חוק הפסקת חברות בכנסת של חבר הכנסת המכהן כשר או כסגן שר (תיקוני חקיקה והוראת שעה), התשע"ה-2015Law on the Cessation of Knesset Membership of a Knesset Member Serving as Minister or Deputy Minister (legislative amendments and temporary provision), 2015 · automatic translation · suggest a correction

Official summary of the law (Knesset)

Amendment No. 42 to Basic Law: The Knesset (hereinafter – the Basic Law) established, among other things, that a minister or deputy minister may resign from his position as a member of Knesset, and shall be replaced by the next candidate on the party's list. The minister or deputy minister may return to the Knesset upon leaving the executive branch. Due to this new arrangement, a need arose to amend additional laws affected by it. The amendment to the Basic Law created a new position of deputy minister who is not a member of Knesset, a situation not addressed by existing legislation. Therefore, this Law establishes supplementary provisions regarding arrangements that previously applied to a deputy minister by virtue of his position as a member of Knesset. The Knesset Members Immunity, Rights and Duties Law, 1951 establishes that a deputy minister who is not a member of Knesset shall be treated the same as a deputy minister who is a member of Knesset, and the Parties Law, 1992 establishes that arrangements concerning primary elections, relating to integrity and restrictions on donations and expenses, shall also apply to deputy ministers. In addition, it is established that the arrangements concerning members of Knesset set out in the Prisons Ordinance [New Version], 1971 and the Secret Monitoring Law, 1979, concerning rights related to immunity, shall also apply to ministers and deputy ministers, whether or not they are members of Knesset (even though in the past these arrangements did not apply to a minister who was not a member of Knesset). An additional effect of the amendment to the Basic Law concerns the financial rights granted to ministers and deputy ministers. In order not to harm an elected official who resigned from the Knesset as described, it is established that the arrangement regarding budgetary pension set out in the Pensions for Officeholders in State Authorities Law, 1969, shall also apply to a deputy minister who is not a member of Knesset, and the Knesset Law, 1994 establishes that a minister or deputy minister shall continue to receive funding for maintaining contact with constituents even after his Knesset membership has ended. The amendments to the Law that directly reference the new arrangement, as well as the amendment to the Knesset Members Immunity, Rights and Duties Law, 1951, were established as a temporary provision during the term of the Twentieth Knesset, since the new arrangement under Amendment No. 42 to the Basic Law is itself a temporary provision.

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