(1) A relevant provision that fixes the remuneration, or any part of the remuneration, of a public servant, other than a public servant referred to in paragraph (e) or (f) of the definition of that term in section 1 shall be taken to have been amended, with effect on and from 1 January 2010, in accordance with this section.

(1A) A relevant provision that fixes the remuneration, or any Part of the remuneration, of a public servant referred to in paragraph (e) of the definition of that term in section 1 shall be taken to have been amended, with effect on and from 1 January 2012, in accordance with this section.

(2) Where the remuneration of a public servant is fixed by a relevant provision, then, subject to subsections (3) and (4), the relevant provision shall be taken to have been amended so that the remuneration is -

(a) in the case of persons to whom Table 1 to this section relates, reduced in accordance with that Table, and

(b) in any other case, subject to subsection (7), reduced in accordance with Table 2 or Table 3 (as the case requires) to this section.