(1) In this section -

(a) a reference to a relevant provision shall, other than in the case of a public servant to whom section 10(2) of the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Act 2013 relates, be read as a reference to that provision as it has effect, subject to any direction given under section 6, by virtue of the operation of section 2;

(b) a reference to the annual remuneration of a public servant is a reference to the public servant's annual basic salary, together with any fixed, periodic allowance that is -

(i) reckonable for the purposes of calculating a pension entitlement of the public servant, and

(ii) paid to the public servant as part of his or her annual remuneration,

and, for the purposes of this section, the definition of 'public servant' in section 1 shall apply as if in paragraph (e) of that definition the words 'who was appointed to judicial office before the commencement of section 10 of the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Amendment) Act 2011' were omitted.

(2) A relevant provision that fixes the remuneration, or any part of the remuneration, of a public servant whose annual remuneration exceeds €65,000 shall be taken to have been amended, with effect on and from 1 July 2013, in accordance with this section.