SEAL GOVERNMENT OF HARYANA LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT THE HARYANA LEGISLATIVE SSEMBLY SPEAKER’S AND DEPUTY SPEAKER’S SALARIES AND ALLOWANCES ACT, 1975 (HARYANA ACT NO. 3 OF 1975) (Amended up to 1st January, 2012) THE HARYANA LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY SPEAKER’S AND DEPUTY SPEAKER’S ALARIES AND ALLOWANCES ACT, 1975 (HARYANA ACT NO.3 OF 1975) TABLE OF CONTENTS Sections Pages
1. Short title 2
2. Definitions 3
3. Salaries and sumptuary allowance 3
4. Residence 3 5 Conveyance 4 5-A Expense to maintain office in 4 Constituency/district
6. Liability to pay income tax 4
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8. Travelling and daily allowances to 4 Ministers 9 Power to make rules. 4-5 10 Repeal and savings 5 1 1THE HARYANA LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY SPEAKER’S AND DEPUTY SPEAKER’S SALARIES AND ALLOWANCES ACT, 1975 (HARYANA ACT NO.3 OF 1975) [Received the assent of the Governor of Haryana on the 19th January, 1975and was first Published in the Haryana Government Gazette (Extraordinary) Legislative Supplement Part 1, of the 22nd January, 1975]. 1 1 2 3 4 Year No. Short title Whether repealed or otherwise affected by legislation 1975 The Haryana Legislative Assembly Speaker’s and Deputy Speaker’s Salaries and Allowances Act,1975 Amended by Haryana Act 23 of 1976 2 Amended by Haryana Act 7 of 1977 3 Amended by Haryana Act 14 of 1979 4 Amended by Haryana Act 13 of 1980 5
1. For Statement of Objects and Reasons, see Haryana government Gazette (Extraordinary), dated the 27th December 1974, page 1829.
2. For Statement of Objects and Reasons, see Haryana government Gazette (Extraordinary), dated 1st July,1976 page 1202
3. For Statement of Objects and Reasons, see Haryana government Gazette (Extraordinary), dated the 25th March, 1977, page 470.
4. For Statement of Objects and Reasons, see Haryana government Gazette (Extraordinary), dated 19th March1979, page 520.
5. For Statement of Objects and Reasons, see Haryana government Gazette (Extraordinary), dated 19th March,1980 page 584.
2 1 2 3 4 Amended by Haryana Act 6 of 1984 1 Amended by Haryana Act 9of 1987. 2 Amended by Haryana Act 14 of 1988 3 Amended by Haryana Act 3 of 1993 4 Amended by Haryana Act 14 of 1997 5 Amended by Haryana Act 17 of 1998 6 Amended by Haryana Act 3of 2006 7 Amended by Haryana Act 10 of 2008 8 Amended by Haryana Act 3of 2009 9 Amended by Haryana Act 9 of 2011 10
1. For Statement of Objects and Reasons, see Haryana government Gazette (Extraordinary), dated 27th March,1984 page 522.
2. For Statement of Objects and Reasons, see Haryana government Gazette (Extraordinary), dated 7th March, 1987 page 459.
3. For Statement of Objects and Reasons, see Haryana government Gazette (Extraordinary), dated 24th March, 1988page 416.
4. For Statement of Objects and Reasons, see Haryana government Gazette (Extraordinary), dated 13th December,1992 page 2634.
5. For Statement of Objects and Reasons, see Haryana government Gazette (Extraordinary), dated 22nd July,1997 page 1735.
6. For Statement of Objects and Reasons, see Haryana government Gazette (Extraordinary), dated 25th July,1998 page 1238
7. For Statement of Objects and Reasons, see Haryana government Gazette (Extraordinary), dated 13th Dece,ner,2005 page 4642.
8. For Statement of Objects and Reasons, see Haryana government Gazette (Extraordinary), dated 27th March,2008 page 1733
9. For Statement of Objects and Reasons, see Haryana government Gazette (Extraordinary), dated 30th January,2009 page 240.
10. For Statement of Objects and Reasons, see Haryana government Gazette (Extraordinary), dated 24th February,2011 page 729 AN ACT to provide for the Salaries and Allowances of the Speaker and the Deputy Speaker of the Haryana Legislative Assembly.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Haryana in the Twenty-fifth year of the Republic of India as follows:- Short title. 1. The Haryana Legislative Assembly Speaker’s and Deputy Speaker’s Salaries and Allowances Act,1975 Definitions.
2. In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context.__ � . (a)“Deputy Speaker” means the Deputy Speaker of the Haryana � . Legislative Assembly. � . (b)“Government” means the Government of the State of Haryana. � . (c)“maintenance” in relation to a residence shall include the � . payment of local rates and taxes, and charges for electricity � . and water; � . (d)“prescribed” means prescribed by rules made under this Act; � . (e)“residence” includes the staff quarters and other buildings � . appurtenant � . Thereto, and the garden thereof; and � . (f)“Speaker” means the Speaker of the Haryana Legislative � . Assembly.
Salaries and sumptuary allowance.
1[3. 2{1} There shall be paid to the Speaker and Deputy Speaker a salary of 2(forty thousands rupees) per mensum.
(2) There shall be paid a sumptuary allowance to the Speaker and Deputy Speaker as may be prescribed.]
Residence. 4. (1)The Speaker and the Deputy Speaker shall be entitled without payment of rent, to the use of a furnished residence throughout his their term of office and for a period of fifteen days immediately thereafter. The maintenance charges of such residence shall be borne by the Government.
3[ (2) The Government shall pay in lieu of such residence 4(Such allowance as may be prescribed}] ___________________________________________________________________________________
1. Substituted by Haryana Act 7 of 1977 and further Substituted by Haryana Act 14 of 1988 and further substituted by Haryana Act 3 of 1993 and further substituted by Haryana Act 14 of 1997 further Substituted by Haryana Act 3 of 2006 and further Substituted by Haryana Act 10 of 2008 further substituted by Haryana Act 9 of 2011 w.e.f. 7-9-2010.
2. Substituted by Haryana Act 17 of 1998.
3. Substituted by Haryana Act 7 of 1977
4. Substituted by Haryana Act 14 of 1997.
3 Conveyance. 5. The Speaker and the Deputy Speaker shall be paid a 1[conveyance allowance at the rate as may be prescribed] or, in lieu thereof, 2(two State cars)a State car, the expenses on the maintenance and propulsion of which shall be borne, by the State Government.
3 [Proviso *****] Expense to maintain office in Constituency/District.
4[5A. The Speaker and the Deputy Speaker shall be paid an allowance at the rate of 5(two thousand rupees) per mensem or as may be prescribed on account of expenses on the maintenanace of office in his Constituency/District.]
Liability to pay income tax.
6. The Speaker’s and the Deputy Speaker’s salaries and allowances referred to in this Act shall be exclusive of the tax payable in respect thereof under any law relating to income tax for the time being in force, and such tax shall be borne by the State Government.
Explanation.__For the purposes of this section, the 6[(salary and allowances received by the Speaker or the Deputy Speaker and the allowances received by him as a member of the Haryana Legislative Assembly)] during any financial year shall be deemed to be his only income for that year.
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1. Substituted by Haryana Act 14 of 1997.
2. Substituted by Haryana Act 3 of 2009.
3. omitted by Haryana Act 14 of 1997.
4. Inserted by Haryana Act 17of 1998.
5. Substituted by Haryana Act 10 of 2008.
6. Substituted by Haryana Act 23 of 1976 and shall always be deemed to have been substituted.
7. Omitted by Haryana Act 9 of 1987.
Power to make rules.
8. (1) The State Government may, by notification, make rules for carrying out the purposes of this Act:
Provided that any rules relating to any matter to which this Act relates and which were in force immediately before the commencement of this Act, shall, in so far as they are not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, and until rules are framed under this Act in respect of such matter, be deemed to be made under this Act.
(2) Every rule made under this section shall be laid as soon as may be after it is made before the House of the State Legislature while it is in session for a total period of ten days which may be comprised in one session or in two or more successive sessions, and if, before the expiry of the session in which it is so laid or the successive session aforesaid,the House agrees in making any modification in the rule or the House agrees that the rule should not be made, the rules shall thereafter have effect only in such modified form or be of no effect, as the case may be ; so however, that any such modification or annulment shall be without prejudice to the validity or anything previously done under that rule.
Repeal and savings.
9. The Punjab Legislative Assembly Speaker’s and Deputy Speaker’s Salaries Act, 1937 ( Punjab Act 3 of 1937), in its application to the State of Haryana is hereby repealed.