(1) The amount by which the basic salary of a public servant stands reduced by virtue of section 2, being the basic salary the annualised amount of which, as so reduced, does not exceed €24,000, €31,000 or €65,000, as the case may be, shall -

(a) in accordance with this section, and

(b) as regards payment of that salary occurring on or after the relevant date specified in this section,

be restored in part, or (if such is this section's effect) in whole, to the public servant.

(2) References in subsections (3), (4) and (5) to basic salary are references to basic salary as it stands reduced by virtue of section 2.

(3) The annualised amount of the basic salary of a public servant that is not greater than €24,000 shall, on and from 1 January 2016, be increased by 2.5 per cent.