(1) Every Minister and Deputy Minister shall during the term of his office be entitled to have 1[telephone facilities] at Government cost at the place of residence at Gandhinagar.
Telephone facilities to Ministers.
(2) No charge shall fall on the Minister and the Deputy Minister personally in respect of installation of, initial deposit for, rental charges for maintenance of, and calls made from, 2[telephone facilities provided] under sub-section (1)] [ 10. Medical attendance] was deleted by Guj. 2 of 2017, s.4.
11. There shall be placed at the disposal of the Chief Minister a sum of ` 3[1,50,000] per year as sumptuary allowance.
Sumptuary allowance to Chief Minister.
12. Notwithstanding anything contained in any law for the time being in force determining the salaries and allowances of members of the State Legislature, a Minister or a Deputy Minister shall not be entitled to receive any salary or allowances under such law, although he is a member of the Gujarat Legislative Assembly.
Ministers and Deputy Ministers not entitled to salaries and allowances as members of State Legislature.
13. For the avoidance of doubt, it is hereby declared that a person shall not be disqualified for being chosen as, or for being a member of the Gujarat Legislative Assembly merely by reason of the fact that he holds the 4[office of a Minister of State or of a Deputy Minister ].
5 [Ministers of State and Deputy Ministers] not disqualified.
14. 6[(1) The State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, make rules or orders for carrying out the purposes of this Act.]
Power of State Government to make rules and orders.
(2) Any rule or order made under this section may be made so as to be retrospective to any date not earlier than the 1st May, 1960.
(3) Rules or orders made under this section shall have effect as if enacted in this Act.
1. These words were substituted for the words "a telephone installed" by Guj. 20 of 1998, s.2, Sch., Sr.
No.3, item 8(l).
2. These words were substituted for the words "a telephone installed", ibid., s.2, Sch., Sr. No. 3, item 8(2).
3. These figures were substituted for the figures "75,000", ibid., s. 2, Sch., Sr. No. 3, item 9.
4. These words were substituted for the words "office of a Deputy Ministers" by Guj. 20 of 1973, s . 4 ( l ) .
5. In the marginal note, these words were substituted for the words "Deputy Ministers”, ibid., s.4(2).
6. Sub-section (1) was substituted by Guj. 21 of 1980, s.2.
6 The Gujarat Minister’s Salaries and Allowances Act, 1960. [1960 : Guj. VI 1[(4) All rules and orders made under this section shall be laid for not less than thirty days before the State Legislature as soon as possible after they are made and shall be subject to rescission by the State Legislature or such modifications as the State Legislature may make during the session in which they are so laid, or the session immediately following.
(5) Any rescission or modification so made by the State Legislature shall be published in the Official Gazette and shall thereupon take effect.]
Repeal of Gujarat Ordinance No.
VI of 1960.
15. The Gujarat Ministers' Salaries and Allowances Ordinance, 1960 is hereby repealed and the provisions of sections 7 and 25 of the Bombay General Clauses Act, 1904 shall apply to such repeal as if that Ordinance were an enactment.
Bom. I of 1904.
1. Sub-sections (4) and (5) were added by Guj. 3 of 1972, s. 6.
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