(1) An ordinary Member shall receive a remun eration from the day when he is elected; or, if he has become a Member because another Member has died or has vacated his or her seat irrevocably from the Folketing, from the day following the day on which the previous Member died or vacated his or her seat in the Folketing, and until the end of the month in which the ordinary Member ceases to be a Member of the Folketing.

(2) An ordinary Member, whose membership ceases through a general election, or who on account of illness vacates his or her seat in the Folketing, shall receive a post-service remuneration equivalent to the basic fee under section 108(2) for a number of months corresponding to half the number of full months in which the appropriate Member has most recently been a Member of the Folketing or a Member of the European Parliament for a continuous period. A period of membership in which the appropriate Member has been a Member of both the Folketing and the European Parliament shall count only as one.
In order for a membership period in the European Parliament to be included in the computation of the post-service remuneration period, the membership must be immediately preceding the period in the Folketing. The post-service remuneration shall be granted for a minimum of 12 months and a maximum of 24 months. A temporary Member who has entered because a Member is away on leave, after vacating his or her seat through a general election, illness or the return of the ordinary Member shall receive a post-service remuneration for half of the number of whole months of the leave if the period of leave is continuous and lasts for at least six months.

(3) From the thirteenth months the following income items shall be set off against the post-service remuneration received by (former) Members under subsection (2)-

(i) salary, general allowance, severance pay or public service pension;

(ii) salary from employment on terms different from those of public servants in central government service, the Folkeskole (municipal primary and lower-secondary schools), the Established Church of Denmark, the Folketing, under the auspices of the education authority of the City of Copenhagen, the Faroese Lagting or the Greenland Landsting, in a municipality, a concessionary company or an undertaking operating under a national or local government guarantee;
(iii) salary from employment in a limited company which after reorganisation of its tasks undertakes the tasks with which the appropriate Member was occupied while he served as an officer of the central government or the national church, and in which the central government is the owner of more than 50 per cent of the shares;
(iv) basic fee, post-service remuneration or pension as a member of the Public Accounts Committee, mayor or alderman;
(v) pension under Ministers’ Remunerations and Pensions and Other Emoluments Act;
(vi) salary, fee, post-service remuneration or pension from membership of the European Parliament and the European Commission and from positions in international organisations by appointment recommended by the Danish government;
(vii) salary for personal work in employment situations not comprised by paragraphs (i-iii) or (vi);
(viii) income from self-employment activities corresponding to the defined contribution basis under section 10(1) or (2) of the Labour Market Fund Act;
(ix) remuneration, fees or other income for personal work in non-employment jobs that cannot be attributed to self-employment activities and consideration for exploitation of intellectual property rights;
(x) severance pay, post-service remunerations, early retirement and quasi-pension benefits where these are related to a previous employment or business relationship to the extent the specified types of income are not comprised by (i) or (vi);
(xi) disbursements from pension schemes with re-current benefits and pension schemes payable by instalments comprised by Part I of the Taxation of Pensions Act and disbursements from similar foreign pension schemes when these are related to a previous employment relationship, however except for pensions comprised by section 2(iii) and (iv)(c) to (e) and savings from the Employees Capital Pension Fund.

(4) Subsection (3) shall not apply to the extent fees and post-service remunerations are disbursed under the Ministers’ Remunerations, Pensions and Other Emoluments Act.

(5) In extra ordi nary cases where health, financial or social condi tions of the former Member so warrant it, the Speaker of the Folketing, having consulted with the Speaker’s deputies, may decide to accord a post-service remuneration for a further up to 12 months.

(6) The Parliamentary Standing Committee shall lay down the detailed guidelines for calculation of the post-service remuneration period under subsection (2) and for the set-off provisions under subsection (3).

(7) An ordinary Member who, on account of illness, being sent out in temporary public service abroad or stationed in the Faroe Islands or Green land on similar busi ness, requests and is granted leave, shall preserve the right to remuner ation and pension seniority during the period of leave.

(8) An ordinary Member who requests and is granted leave on account of pregnancy and birth, shall preserve the right to remuneration and pension seniority during the period of leave.

(9) An ordinary Member who is also a Member of the Faroese Lagting or the Greenland Landsting, and who on account of temporary absence as a consequence of participation in the meetings of the Lag ting or the Landsting and in meetings of committees in immediate connection herewith and who requests and is granted leave, shall preserve the right to receive remuneration and pension seniority during the period of leave.

(10) An ordinary Member who, for reasons other than those stated in subsections (7) to (9), requests and is granted leave, shall not receive remuneration during the period of leave and this period shall not be included in the calculation of pension seniority.

(11) A temporary Member who has entered on account of a Member’s leave, shall receive remuneration, cf. section 108(1) to (3) and obtain pension seniority from the day the Folketing has decided to call him in, however, not earlier than from the day when the said leave starts to run and until the day the temporary membership ceases. A temporary Member shall furthermore receive a regular housing allowance and a double house-keeping allowance according to rules determined by the Parliamentary Standing Order Committee.

(12) A temporary Member who requests and is granted leave shall not receive remuneration and shall not obtain pension seniority during the period of leave.