PUNJAB LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY SPEAKER'S AND DEPUTY SPEAKER'S SALARIES ACT, 1937 (Amended upto 2011)
[ Act No. 3 of 1937]
PREAMBLE
An Act to provide for the salaries of the Speaker and the Deputy Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of the Punjab. Whereas by the Government of India Act, 1935, provision has been made for the determination of the salaries of the Speaker and the Deputy speaker of the Punjab Legislative Assembly by Act of the Provincial Legislature; it is hereby enacted as follows :-
Section 1 - Short title
This Act may be called the Punjab Legislative Assembly Speaker's and Deputy Speaker's Salaries Act, 1937.
Section 1-A - Definitions
(a) 'House' includes the staff quarters and other buildings appurtenant thereto and the gardens thereof.
(b) 'Maintenance' in relation to a house shall include the payment of local rates and taxes and charges for electricity and water.][1]
Section 2 - Salary of the Speaker
[2][There shall be paid to the Speaker of the Punjab Legislative Assembly a salary at the rate of [3][thirty thousand rupees per mensem], [4][sumptuary allowance and compensatory allowance each] at the rate of five thousand rupees per mensem and a conveyance allowance at the rate of ten thousand rupees per mensem or, in lieu thereof, a State Car, the expenses on the maintenance and propulsion of which shall be borne by the State Government and there shall in addition be provided by the State Government a free furnished house at Chandigarh for him, the maintenance charges of which shall be borne by the State Government. The State Government may also allow him to continue in free occupation of the house for a period not exceeding fifteen days from the date of his ceasing to be the Speaker:
Provided that if the Speaker does not avail of or surrenders his State Car and wishes to use his private vehicle for official purpose, he will be paid such allowance, as may be specified in the rules made in this behalf by the State Government under this Act from time to time.]
Section 3 - Salary of the Deputy Speaker
[5][There shall be paid to the Deputy Speaker of the Punjab Legislative Assembly a salary at the rate of [6][[7]thirty thousand rupees] per mensem, sumptuary allowance and compensatory allowance each] at the rate of five thousand rupees per mensem and conveyance allowance at the rate of ten thousand rupees per mensem or, in lieu thereof, a State Car, the expenses on the maintenance and propulsion of which shall be borne by the State Government and there shall in addition be provided by the State Government a free furnished house at Chandigarh for him, the maintenance charges of which shall be borne by the State Government or in lieu thereof, he shall be paid such allowance not exceeding three hundred rupees per mensem as the State Government may fix. The State Government may also allow him to continue in free occupation of the house for a period not exceeding fifteen days from the date of his ceasing to be the Deputy Speaker:
Provided that if the Deputy Speaker does not avail of or surrenders his State Car and wishes to use his private vehicle for official purpose, he will be paid such allowance, as may be specified in the rules made in this behalf by the State Government under this Act from time to time.]
Section 3-A - Free installation of telephone
(1) [8][The Speaker and Deputy Speaker shall ; each be entitled to have a telephone installed at any place within his constituency or at his place of residence or at Chandigarh and all charges in respect of installation and security deposit shall be paid by the Speaker and the Deputy Speaker themselves and the amount so paid shall be reimbursed to the Speaker and the Deputy Speaker by the Government on production of receipts obtained from the Posts & Telegraph Department.
(2) [9][The Speaker and Deputy Speaker shall be paid a telephone allowance at the rate of ten thousand rupees per mensem.]
Provided that the reimbursement of charges referred to in sub- sections (1) and (2) shall not exceed [10][one lac twenty thousand rupees per annum].
Section 3-AA - Constituency, Secretarial and Postal Facilities Allowance
There shall be paid to the Speaker and the Deputy Speaker constituency, secretarial and postal facilities allowance at the rate of [11][fifteen thousand rupees] per mensem [12][and office allowance in constituency at the rate of five thousand rupees per mensem]
Section 3-B - Travelling Concession
[13][(1) The Speaker and the Deputy Speaker each along with his spouse and his dependent children accompanying either of them and an attendant accompanying him to look after and assist him shall, during the course of a financial year, be entitled to travel by any railway in India or within or outside India by an air-conditioned coach or by air or by private taxi or by his own motor car and an amount equivalent to the expenses incurred on such journey, shall be reimbursed to the member:
Provided that the Speaker and the Deputy Speaker furnishes a certificate in respect of the journey undertaken and the sum of money spent thereupon:]
Provided further that the total expenses incurred for the facilities specified in this section shall not exceed the amount of [14][two lac rupees] in a financial year.
[15][ (2) The Speaker and Deputy Speaker may get an advance for performing the journey abroad by Air.]
[16][****]
Section 5 - Salary, allowances and perquisites to be exclusive of income-tax
The salary and allowances payable to the Speaker and the Deputy Speaker, and free furnished house and other perquisites admissible to them, under this Act, shall be exclusive of income-tax which shall be payable by the State Government.
[1] Section 1-A, added by Punjab Act No. 17 of 1952, Section 2. with effect from 17.4.1952.
[2] Substituted by PUNJAB LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY SPEAKER'S AND DEPUTY SPEAKER'S SALARIES (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2003
[3] Substituted by PUNJAB LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY SPEAKER'S AND DEPUTY SPEAKER'S SALARIES (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2011
[4] Substituted by PUNJAB LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY SPEAKER'S AND DEPUTY SPEAKER'S SALARIES (SECOND AMENDMENT) ACT, 2003
[5] Substituted by PUNJAB LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY SPEAKER'S AND DEPUTY SPEAKER'S SALARIES (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2003
[6] Substituted by PUNJAB LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY SPEAKER'S AND DEPUTY SPEAKER'S SALARIES (SECOND AMENDMENT) ACT, 2003
[7] Substituted by PUNJAB LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY SPEAKER'S AND DEPUTY SPEAKER'S SALARIES (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2011
[8] Substituted vide Punjab Act No. 20 of 1995.
[9] Substituted by PUNJAB LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY SPEAKER'S AND DEPUTY SPEAKER'S SALARIES (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2011
[10] Substituted by PUNJAB LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY SPEAKER'S AND DEPUTY SPEAKER'S SALARIES (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2004
[11] Substituted by PUNJAB LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY SPEAKER'S AND DEPUTY SPEAKER'S SALARIES (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2011
[12] Added by PUNJAB LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY SPEAKER'S AND DEPUTY SPEAKER'S SALARIES (SECOND AMENDMENT) ACT, 2003
[13] Substituted by PUNJAB LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY SPEAKER'S AND DEPUTY SPEAKER'S SALARIES (SECOND AMENDMENT) ACT, 2011
[14] Substituted by PUNJAB LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY SPEAKER'S AND DEPUTY SPEAKER'S SALARIES (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2011
[15] Added by PUNJAB LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY SPEAKER'S AND DEPUTY SPEAKER'S SALARIES (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2011
[16] Omitted by PUNJAB LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY SPEAKER'S AND DEPUTY SPEAKER'S SALARIES (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2011:
Section 4 - Grant of loan
[(1) Subject to such conditions and limitations as may be prescribed by rules, there may be paid to the Speaker and the Deputy Speaker by way of a repayable advance -
(a) a sum of money not exceeding ten lac rupees for building or purchasing a house; and
(b) a sum of money not exceeding six lac rupees or the anticipated price, whichever be less, for purchase of a Motor-car or a Jeep or for conversion of a petrol driven Motor- car or a Jeep to a diesel driven vehicle, or a sum of money not exceeding ten thousand rupees or the anticipated price, whichever be less, for purchase of a Motor-cycle or a Scooter.
[(1-A) The Speaker and the Deputy Speaker may be paid second repayable advance for the purchase of a motor-car, if they have repaid the entire previous advance, subject to the conditions specified in sub-section (1).]
(1-B) If the Speaker and the Deputy Speaker does not avail of or surrenders his State Car, he may avail of a repayable advance of a sum of money not exceeding rupees six lac or the anticipated price of the vehicle, whichever is less, for the purchase of a motor car or a jeep or for conversion of a petrol-driven motor car or a jeep to a diesel driven vehicle:
Provided that the Speaker or the Deputy Speaker, as the case may be, will not be entitled to a State Car till the full amount of advance is recovered from him alongwith interest.
Inserted by PUNJAB LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY SPEAKER'S AND DEPUTY SPEAKER'S SALARIES (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2001
(2) On the acceptance of an application for an advance, the Speaker or the Deputy Speaker, as the case may be, shall execute a deed in the form prescribed by rules, undertaking to use the advance for the purpose for which, and to fulfil the conditions on which the advance is sanctioned, rendering himself and such property as may have been specified in the deed as security including the house purchased or built with the aid of the advance liable for the repayment of the loan and interest due thereon :
Provided that no advance for building the house shall be sanctioned unless the plot or land on which the house is to be built, is exclusively owned and possessed by the Speaker or the Deputy Speaker applying therefor, and is free from all encumbrances.
(3) No transfer, assignment or charge made or created after the execution of the deed under sub-section (2), in relation to the property specified therein or the house purchased or built with the aid of the advance, shall be valid against the State Government, unless it has been made or created with its previous consent in-writing.
(3-A) Where the Speaker or the Deputy Speaker having obtained an advance under sub-section (1) dies while holding office as such, the amount of the advance or any part thereof which would have accrued after the date of his death in accordance with the terms and conditions of the grant of the advance along with interest thereon shall be written off with the sanction of the prescribed authority.
(4) The State Government may make rules for carrying out the purposes of this section.
[ Act No. 3 of 1937] An Act to provide for the salaries of the Speaker and the Deputy Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of the Punjab. Whereas by the Government of India Act, 1935, provision has been made for the determination of the salaries of the Speaker and the Deputy speaker of the Punjab Legislative Assembly by Act of the Provincial Legislature; it is hereby enacted as follows :- This Act may be called the Punjab Legislative Assembly Speaker's and Deputy Speaker's Salaries Act, 1937. (a) 'House' includes the staff quarters and other buildings appurtenant thereto and the gardens thereof. (b) 'Maintenance' in relation to a house shall include the payment of local rates and taxes and charges for electricity and water.][1] [2][There shall be paid to the Speaker of the Punjab Legislative Assembly a salary at the rate of [3][thirty thousand rupees per mensem], [4][sumptuary allowance and compensatory allowance each] at the rate of five thousand rupees per mensem and a conveyance allowance at the rate of ten thousand rupees per mensem or, in lieu thereof, a State Car, the expenses on the maintenance and propulsion of which shall be borne by the State Government and there shall in addition be provided by the State Government a free furnished house at Chandigarh for him, the maintenance charges of which shall be borne by the State Government. The State Government may also allow him to continue in free occupation of the house for a period not exceeding fifteen days from the date of his ceasing to be the Speaker: Provided that if the Speaker does not avail of or surrenders his State Car and wishes to use his private vehicle for official purpose, he will be paid such allowance, as may be specified in the rules made in this behalf by the State Government under this Act from time to time.] [5][There shall be paid to the Deputy Speaker of the Punjab Legislative Assembly a salary at the rate of [6][[7]thirty thousand rupees] per mensem, sumptuary allowance and compensatory allowance each] at the rate of five thousand rupees per mensem and conveyance allowance at the rate of ten thousand rupees per mensem or, in lieu thereof, a State Car, the expenses on the maintenance and propulsion of which shall be borne by the State Government and there shall in addition be provided by the State Government a free furnished house at Chandigarh for him, the maintenance charges of which shall be borne by the State Government or in lieu thereof, he shall be paid such allowance not exceeding three hundred rupees per mensem as the State Government may fix. The State Government may also allow him to continue in free occupation of the house for a period not exceeding fifteen days from the date of his ceasing to be the Deputy Speaker: Provided that if the Deputy Speaker does not avail of or surrenders his State Car and wishes to use his private vehicle for official purpose, he will be paid such allowance, as may be specified in the rules made in this behalf by the State Government under this Act from time to time.] (1) [8][The Speaker and Deputy Speaker shall ; each be entitled to have a telephone installed at any place within his constituency or at his place of residence or at Chandigarh and all charges in respect of installation and security deposit shall be paid by the Speaker and the Deputy Speaker themselves and the amount so paid shall be reimbursed to the Speaker and the Deputy Speaker by the Government on production of receipts obtained from the Posts & Telegraph Department. (2) [9][The Speaker and Deputy Speaker shall be paid a telephone allowance at the rate of ten thousand rupees per mensem.] Provided that the reimbursement of charges referred to in sub- sections (1) and (2) shall not exceed [10][one lac twenty thousand rupees per annum]. There shall be paid to the Speaker and the Deputy Speaker constituency, secretarial and postal facilities allowance at the rate of [11][fifteen thousand rupees] per mensem [12][and office allowance in constituency at the rate of five thousand rupees per mensem] [13][(1) The Speaker and the Deputy Speaker each along with his spouse and his dependent children accompanying either of them and an attendant accompanying him to look after and assist him shall, during the course of a financial year, be entitled to travel by any railway in India or within or outside India by an air-conditioned coach or by air or by private taxi or by his own motor car and an amount equivalent to the expenses incurred on such journey, shall be reimbursed to the member: Provided that the Speaker and the Deputy Speaker furnishes a certificate in respect of the journey undertaken and the sum of money spent thereupon:] Provided further that the total expenses incurred for the facilities specified in this section shall not exceed the amount of [14][two lac rupees] in a financial year. [15][ (2) The Speaker and Deputy Speaker may get an advance for performing the journey abroad by Air.] [16][****] The salary and allowances payable to the Speaker and the Deputy Speaker, and free furnished house and other perquisites admissible to them, under this Act, shall be exclusive of income-tax which shall be payable by the State Government. [1] Section 1-A, added by Punjab Act No. 17 of 1952, Section 2. with effect from 17.4.1952. [2] Substituted by PUNJAB LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY SPEAKER'S AND DEPUTY SPEAKER'S SALARIES (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2003 [3] Substituted by PUNJAB LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY SPEAKER'S AND DEPUTY SPEAKER'S SALARIES (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2011 [4] Substituted by PUNJAB LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY SPEAKER'S AND DEPUTY SPEAKER'S SALARIES (SECOND AMENDMENT) ACT, 2003 [5] Substituted by PUNJAB LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY SPEAKER'S AND DEPUTY SPEAKER'S SALARIES (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2003 [6] Substituted by PUNJAB LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY SPEAKER'S AND DEPUTY SPEAKER'S SALARIES (SECOND AMENDMENT) ACT, 2003 [7] Substituted by PUNJAB LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY SPEAKER'S AND DEPUTY SPEAKER'S SALARIES (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2011 [8] Substituted vide Punjab Act No. 20 of 1995. [9] Substituted by PUNJAB LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY SPEAKER'S AND DEPUTY SPEAKER'S SALARIES (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2011 [10] Substituted by PUNJAB LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY SPEAKER'S AND DEPUTY SPEAKER'S SALARIES (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2004 [11] Substituted by PUNJAB LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY SPEAKER'S AND DEPUTY SPEAKER'S SALARIES (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2011 [12] Added by PUNJAB LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY SPEAKER'S AND DEPUTY SPEAKER'S SALARIES (SECOND AMENDMENT) ACT, 2003 [13] Substituted by PUNJAB LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY SPEAKER'S AND DEPUTY SPEAKER'S SALARIES (SECOND AMENDMENT) ACT, 2011 [14] Substituted by PUNJAB LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY SPEAKER'S AND DEPUTY SPEAKER'S SALARIES (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2011 [15] Added by PUNJAB LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY SPEAKER'S AND DEPUTY SPEAKER'S SALARIES (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2011 [16] Omitted by PUNJAB LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY SPEAKER'S AND DEPUTY SPEAKER'S SALARIES (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2011: Section 4 - Grant of loan [(1) Subject to such conditions and limitations as may be prescribed by rules, there may be paid to the Speaker and the Deputy Speaker by way of a repayable advance - (a) a sum of money not exceeding ten lac rupees for building or purchasing a house; and (b) a sum of money not exceeding six lac rupees or the anticipated price, whichever be less, for purchase of a Motor-car or a Jeep or for conversion of a petrol driven Motor- car or a Jeep to a diesel driven vehicle, or a sum of money not exceeding ten thousand rupees or the anticipated price, whichever be less, for purchase of a Motor-cycle or a Scooter. [(1-A) The Speaker and the Deputy Speaker may be paid second repayable advance for the purchase of a motor-car, if they have repaid the entire previous advance, subject to the conditions specified in sub-section (1).] (1-B) If the Speaker and the Deputy Speaker does not avail of or surrenders his State Car, he may avail of a repayable advance of a sum of money not exceeding rupees six lac or the anticipated price of the vehicle, whichever is less, for the purchase of a motor car or a jeep or for conversion of a petrol-driven motor car or a jeep to a diesel driven vehicle: Provided that the Speaker or the Deputy Speaker, as the case may be, will not be entitled to a State Car till the full amount of advance is recovered from him alongwith interest. Inserted by PUNJAB LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY SPEAKER'S AND DEPUTY SPEAKER'S SALARIES (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2001 (2) On the acceptance of an application for an advance, the Speaker or the Deputy Speaker, as the case may be, shall execute a deed in the form prescribed by rules, undertaking to use the advance for the purpose for which, and to fulfil the conditions on which the advance is sanctioned, rendering himself and such property as may have been specified in the deed as security including the house purchased or built with the aid of the advance liable for the repayment of the loan and interest due thereon : Provided that no advance for building the house shall be sanctioned unless the plot or land on which the house is to be built, is exclusively owned and possessed by the Speaker or the Deputy Speaker applying therefor, and is free from all encumbrances. (3) No transfer, assignment or charge made or created after the execution of the deed under sub-section (2), in relation to the property specified therein or the house purchased or built with the aid of the advance, shall be valid against the State Government, unless it has been made or created with its previous consent in-writing. (3-A) Where the Speaker or the Deputy Speaker having obtained an advance under sub-section (1) dies while holding office as such, the amount of the advance or any part thereof which would have accrued after the date of his death in accordance with the terms and conditions of the grant of the advance along with interest thereon shall be written off with the sanction of the prescribed authority. (4) The State Government may make rules for carrying out the purposes of this section. PUNJAB LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY SPEAKER'S AND DEPUTY SPEAKER'S SALARIES ACT, 1937 (Amended upto 2011)
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