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)<\/p>\n
Part One
\nAcquisition and loss of membership of the Bundestag<\/p>\n
Section 1 Acquisition and loss of membership of the Bundestag<\/a><\/p>\n Part Two Section 2 Protection of the free exercise of an electoral mandate<\/a> Part Three Section 5 Suspension of the rights and duties arising from employment in the public service<\/a> Part Four Section 11 Members\u2019 remuneration<\/a> Part Five Section 18 Transitional emoluments<\/a> Part Six Section 27 Subsidisation of costs in the event of illness, nursing care and births<\/a> Part Seven Section 29 Reckonability of concurrent benefits from public funds<\/a><\/p>\n Part Eight Section 30 (repealed)<\/a> Part Nine Section 35 Transitional provisions in respect of the Eleventh Act Amending the Act on the Legal Status of Members of the Bundestag<\/a> Part Ten Section 44a Exercise of the mandate<\/a> Part Eleven Section 45 Creation of a parliamentary group<\/a>
\nMembership of the Bundestag and professional activity<\/p>\n
\nSection 3 Election leave<\/a>
\nSection 4 Seniority and length of service<\/a><\/p>\n
\nLegal status of public servants elected to the Bundestag<\/p>\n
\nSection 6 Reinstatement after expiry of a mandate<\/a>
\nSection 7 Seniority in the public service<\/a>
\nSection 8 Civil servants appointed for a fixed term, judges, members of the armed forcesand public-service employees<\/a>
\nSection 9 University staff with civil-servant status<\/a>
\nSection 10 Electoral officials appointed for a fixed term<\/a><\/p>\n
\nBenefits for Members of the Bundestag<\/p>\n
\nSection 12 Members\u2019 allowances<\/a>
\nSection 13 Non-entitlement to reimbursement of expenses<\/a>
\nSection 14 Reduction of the expense allowance<\/a>
\nSection 15 Receipt of other per diem or attendance allowances<\/a>
\nSection 16 Right to free use of public transport and reimbursement of travel costs<\/a>
\nSection 17 Official trips<\/a><\/p>\n
\nBenefits for former Members of the Bundestag and their surviving dependants<\/p>\n
\nSection 19 Entitlement to receive superannuation benefits<\/a>
\nSection 20 Amount of superannuation benefits<\/a>
\nSection 21 Reckonability of periods in other Parliaments<\/a>
\nSection 22 Damage to health<\/a>
\nSection 23 Compensatory severance payment<\/a>
\nSection 24 Transitional allowance for surviving dependants<\/a>
\nSection 25 Surviving dependants\u2019 pension<\/a>
\nSection 25a Pension-rights adjustment<\/a>
\nSection 25b Cost-saving measures with regard to pension entitlements<\/a>
\nSection 26 Application of civil-service regulations<\/a><\/p>\n
\nSubsidisation of costs in the event of illness, nursing care and births; assistance<\/p>\n
\nSection 28 Assistance<\/a><\/p>\n
\nReckonability of concurrent benefits from public funds<\/p>\n
\nGeneral provisions<\/p>\n
\nSection 31 Waiver; transferability<\/a>
\nSection 32 Commencement and expiry of entitlements; payment provisions<\/a>
\nSection 33 (repealed)<\/a>
\nSection 34 Implementing provisions<\/a><\/p>\n
\nTransitional provisions<\/p>\n
\nSection 35a Transitional provisions in respect of the Nineteenth Amendment Act<\/a>
\nSection 35b Transitional provisions in respect of the Twenty-seventh Amendment Act<\/a>
\nSection 35c Transitional provisions in respect of the Thirtieth Amendment Act<\/a>
\nSection 36 Transitional provisions for public servants<\/a>
\nSection 37 Pensions for Members who retired prior to 1968<\/a>
\nSection 38 Pensions for periods prior to the entry into force of this Act<\/a>
\nSection 38a<\/a>
\nSection 38b Surviving dependants\u2019 pension in the event of the death of a serving Member of the Bundestag<\/a>
\nSection 39 Reckonability of previous pension benefits<\/a>
\nSection 40 Reduced compensatory severance payment<\/a>
\nSection 41 Continuation of life assurance<\/a>
\nSection 42 Conversion or cancellation of life assurance<\/a>
\nSection 43 Continued payment of transitional emoluments<\/a>
\nSection 44 Reckonable service for transitional emoluments<\/a><\/p>\n
\nIndependence of Members of the Bundestag<\/p>\n
\nSection 44b Code of Conduct<\/a>
\nSection 44c Screening for activity or political responsibility for the Ministry of State Security\/Office of National Security of the former German Democratic Republic<\/a>
\nSection 44d Duty of confidentiality and authority to make a statement<\/a><\/p>\n
\nParliamentary groups<\/p>\n
\nSection 46 Legal status<\/a>
\nSection 47 Duties<\/a>
\nSection 48 Organisation<\/a>
\nSection 49 Duty of confidentiality of employees of the parliamentary groups<\/a>
\nSection 50 Monetary benefits and benefits in kind<\/a>
\nSection 51 Budgetary and economic management; accounting<\/a>
\nSection 52 Rendering of accounts<\/a>
\nSection 53 Auditing of accounts<\/a>
\nSection 54 Termination of legal status and liquidation<\/a><\/p>\n