(1) Provisions in legislation or special statutes to the effect that a public servant is not entitled to take up any other position to which a right of pen sion is attached, shall not prevent a public servant from obtaining his or her right to a pension as a Member of the Folketing while preserving his or her position as a public servant.

(2) Personal pension and spouse’s pension shall be paid according to the present Act as limited according to specifications in subsections (3) and (4), salary or pension from the treasury accruing to the appropriate Member notwithstanding, and shall be without influence on the right to receive such salary or pension. The same applies if the appropriate Member receives salary or pension from a position in the Folkeskole (municipal primary and lower-second ary school) or the Established Church of Denmark or from a position in local government service, a concessionary company, other government activities or from a state-subsidised pension fund.

(3) If a Member of the Folketing is entitled to a personal pension from a position as civil servant or from a position in the Folkeskole, the Established Church of Denmark, a municipality, a concessionary com pany, other government activities or from a state-subsidised pension fund, the total personal pension hence accruing to the appropriate Member, shall not exceed the highest personal pension obtainable under the Public Service Pensions Act, and the personal pension from the Folketing shall in such event be reduced by the surplus. The same applies to pensions paid by the European Parliament to a former Member thereof. If a retired Member of the Folketing receives a salary from a position with pension entitlement as stated in the first sentence, the total salary and pension shall not exceed the highest public servant salary with pension entitlement, and the pension from the Folketing shall in such event be reduced as specified in the first sentence, inasmuch, however, as the salary shall replace the pension in the computation.

(4) If a surviving spouse of a Member of the Folketing has a claim to a spouse’s pension deriving from the appointment of the deceased to a civil servant position or a position in the Folkeskole, the Established Church of Denmark, other government activities or from a state-subsidised pension fund, the joint spouse’s pension, hence to be received by the surviving spouse, shall not exceed the highest pension which a spouse can obtain under the Public Service Pensions Act, and the spouse’s pension from the Folketing shall in such event be reduced by the surplus. The same shall apply to the spouse’s pen sion paid by the European Parliament on account of a deceased’s membership thereof.