Full-time occupation

1. The mandate of member of Congress of Deputy or of the Senate shall be discharged as a fulltime duty as provided for in the Constitution and in this Act.

2. Pursuant to the foregoing subsection, the office of member of the Congress of Deputies or Senator shall be incompatible with the holding, personally or through a substitute, of any other position or the exercise of any profession or activity, whether private or public, on his own or on other persons’ behalf, remunerated by salary, wages, tariff duty, professional fee or in any other way. Where a member of either House is transferred to a special administrative or employment situation in said position, profession or activity, he shall have the guarantee of reintegration into his rank and position in the terms to be laid down by the relevant regulations. The full-time occupation and disqualifications regime provided for in this Act shall apply in all cases and no option shall be allowed to receive payments or remunerations corresponding to positions or offices falling within said disqualifications.

3. In particular the mandate of member of Congress of Deputies or Senator shall be incompatible with active work in the Public Service and with the holding of any other position in the employment or within the budgetary appropriations of constitutional bodies, Public Administration departments, quasi non-governmental organizations and public entities, firms directly or indirectly controlled by a majority public sector’s stake or any other activity directly or indirectly on behalf of said bodies, firm or entities. 

4. Notwithstanding the provisions of the foregoing subsection, parliamentarians who are University professors may take part within their own University in teaching or research activities of a special nature, that do not involve management or supervision of services, provided that they may only receive for said activities the specific indemnities statutorily prescribed.

 1 ADDED BY SECT. 1 OF INSTITUTIONAL ACT 1/1987, OF APRIL 2
 1 AND 2 AS AMENDED BY SECT. 54 OF INSTITUTIONAL ACT 8/1991, OF MARCH 13
 3 AND 4 RENUMBERED BY SECT. 55 OF INSTITUTIONAL ACT 8/1991, OF MARCH 13. FORMERLY 2 AND 3 RESPECTIVELY