Members of the Bundestag Act (Abgeordnetengesetz)

Last Updated on May 29, 2021 by LawEuro

Full citation: Act on the Legal Status of Members of the German Bundestag of 18 February 1977 (Federal Law Gazette I, p. 297), in the version promulgated on 21 February 1996 (Federal Law Gazette I, p. 326), last amended by Article 2 of the Act of 27 May 2020 (Federal Law Gazette I, p. 1161)

Part One
Acquisition and loss of membership of the Bundestag

Section 1 Acquisition and loss of membership of the Bundestag

Part Two
Membership of the Bundestag and professional activity

Section 2 Protection of the free exercise of an electoral mandate
Section 3 Election leave
Section 4 Seniority and length of service

Part Three
Legal status of public servants elected to the Bundestag

Section 5 Suspension of the rights and duties arising from employment in the public service
Section 6 Reinstatement after expiry of a mandate
Section 7 Seniority in the public service
Section 8 Civil servants appointed for a fixed term, judges, members of the armed forcesand public-service employees
Section 9 University staff with civil-servant status
Section 10 Electoral officials appointed for a fixed term

Part Four
Benefits for Members of the Bundestag

Section 11 Members’ remuneration
Section 12 Members’ allowances
Section 13 Non-entitlement to reimbursement of expenses
Section 14 Reduction of the expense allowance
Section 15 Receipt of other per diem or attendance allowances
Section 16 Right to free use of public transport and reimbursement of travel costs
Section 17 Official trips

Part Five
Benefits for former Members of the Bundestag and their surviving dependants

Section 18 Transitional emoluments
Section 19 Entitlement to receive superannuation benefits
Section 20 Amount of superannuation benefits
Section 21 Reckonability of periods in other Parliaments
Section 22 Damage to health
Section 23 Compensatory severance payment
Section 24 Transitional allowance for surviving dependants
Section 25 Surviving dependants’ pension
Section 25a Pension-rights adjustment
Section 25b Cost-saving measures with regard to pension entitlements
Section 26 Application of civil-service regulations

Part Six
Subsidisation of costs in the event of illness, nursing care and births; assistance

Section 27 Subsidisation of costs in the event of illness, nursing care and births
Section 28 Assistance

Part Seven
Reckonability of concurrent benefits from public funds

Section 29 Reckonability of concurrent benefits from public funds

Part Eight
General provisions

Section 30 (repealed)
Section 31 Waiver; transferability
Section 32 Commencement and expiry of entitlements; payment provisions
Section 33 (repealed)
Section 34 Implementing provisions

Part Nine
Transitional provisions

Section 35 Transitional provisions in respect of the Eleventh Act Amending the Act on the Legal Status of Members of the Bundestag
Section 35a Transitional provisions in respect of the Nineteenth Amendment Act
Section 35b Transitional provisions in respect of the Twenty-seventh Amendment Act
Section 35c Transitional provisions in respect of the Thirtieth Amendment Act
Section 36 Transitional provisions for public servants
Section 37 Pensions for Members who retired prior to 1968
Section 38 Pensions for periods prior to the entry into force of this Act
Section 38a
Section 38b Surviving dependants’ pension in the event of the death of a serving Member of the Bundestag
Section 39 Reckonability of previous pension benefits
Section 40 Reduced compensatory severance payment
Section 41 Continuation of life assurance
Section 42 Conversion or cancellation of life assurance
Section 43 Continued payment of transitional emoluments
Section 44 Reckonable service for transitional emoluments

Part Ten
Independence of Members of the Bundestag

Section 44a Exercise of the mandate
Section 44b Code of Conduct
Section 44c Screening for activity or political responsibility for the Ministry of State Security/Office of National Security of the former German Democratic Republic
Section 44d Duty of confidentiality and authority to make a statement

Part Eleven
Parliamentary groups

Section 45 Creation of a parliamentary group
Section 46 Legal status
Section 47 Duties
Section 48 Organisation
Section 49 Duty of confidentiality of employees of the parliamentary groups
Section 50 Monetary benefits and benefits in kind
Section 51 Budgetary and economic management; accounting
Section 52 Rendering of accounts
Section 53 Auditing of accounts
Section 54 Termination of legal status and liquidation