THE HIGH COURT AND SUPREME COURT JUDGES (SALARIES AND CONDITIONS OF SERVICE) AMENDMENT ACT, 2018 NO. 10 OF 2018 [25th January, 2018.]
An Act further to amend the High Court Judges (Salaries and Conditions of Service) Act, 1954 and the Supreme Court Judges (Salaries and Conditions of Service) Act, 1958.
BE it enacted by Parliament in the Sixty-eighth Year of the Republic of India as follows:—
CHAPTER I PRELIMINARY
1. (1) This Act may be called the High Court and Supreme Court Judges (Salaries and Conditions of Service) Amendment Act, 2018.
(2) Sections 2, 5, 6 and 9 shall be deemed to have come into force on the 1st day of January, 2016. Sections 3 and 7 shall be deemed to have come into force on the 1st day of July, 2017. Sections 4 and 8 shall be deemed to have come into force on the 22nd day of September, 2017.
Short title and commencement.
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REGISTERED NO. DL—(N)04/0007/2003—18 MINISTRY OF LAW AND JUSTICE (Legislative Department) New Delhi, the 27th January, 2018/Magha 7, 1939 (Saka) The following Act of Parliament received the assent of the President on the 25th January, 2018, and is hereby published for general information:— 2 THE GAZETTE OF INDIA EXTRAORDINARY [PART II—
CHAPTER II AMENDMENTS OF THE HIGH COURT JUDGES (SALARIES AND CONDITIONS OF SERVICE) ACT, 1954
2. In the High Court Judges (Salaries and Conditions of Service) Act, 1954 (hereinafter referred to as the High Court Judges Act), in section 13A,—
(a) in sub-section (1), for the words "ninety thousand rupees per mensem", the words "two lakh fifty thousand rupees per mensem" shall be substituted;
(b) in sub-section (2), for the words "eighty thousand rupees per mensem", the words "two lakh twenty-five thousand rupees per mensem" shall be substituted.
3. In section 22A of the High Court Judges Act, for sub-section (2), the following sub-section shall be substituted, namely:— "(2) Where a Judge does not avail himself of the use of an official residence, he may be paid every month an allowance equivalent to an amount of twenty-four per centum of the salary which shall be increased at the rate of—
(a) twenty-seven per centum, when Dearness Allowance crosses twentyfive per centum; and
(b) thirty per centum, when Dearness Allowance crosses fifty per centum.
4. In the High Court Judges Act, in section 22C, for the words "fifteen thousand" and "twelve thousand", the words "thirty-four thousand" and "twenty-seven thousand" shall respectively be substituted.
5. In the First Schedule to the High Court Judges Act,—
(a) in Part I, in paragraph 2,— (A) in clause (a), for the letters and figures "Rs. 43,890", the letters and figures "Rs. 1,21,575" shall be substituted;
(B) in clause (b), for the letters and figures "Rs. 34,350", the letters and figures "Rs. 96,524" shall be substituted;
(C) in the proviso, for the letters and figures "Rs. 5,40,000" and "Rs. 4,80,000", the letters and figures "Rs. 15,00,000" and "Rs. 13,50,000" shall respectively be substituted;
(b) In Part III, in paragraph 2,— (A) in clause (b), for the letters and figures "Rs. 16,020", the letters and figures "Rs. 45,016" shall be substituted;
(B) in the proviso, for the letters and figures "Rs. 5,40,000" and "Rs. 4,80,000", the letters and figures "Rs. 15,00,000" and "Rs. 13,50,000" shall respectively be substituted.
CHAPTER III AMENDMENTS OF THE SUPREME COURT JUDGES (SALARIES AND CONDITIONS OF SERVICE) ACT, 1958
6. In the Supreme Court Judges (Salaries and Conditions of Service) Act, 1958 (hereinafter referred to as the Supreme Court Judges Act), in section 12A,—
(a) in sub-section (1), for the words "one lakh rupees per mensem", the words "two lakh eighty thousand rupees per mensem" shall be substituted;
Amendment of section
22A.
Amendment of section
13A.
Amendment of section
22C.
Amendment of First Schedule.
Amendment of section
12A.
41 of 1958.
28 of 1954.
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(b) in sub-section (2), for the words "ninety thousand rupees per mensem", the words "two lakh fifty thousand rupees per mensem" shall be substituted.
7. In section 23 of the Supreme Court Judges Act, for sub-section (1A), the following sub-section shall be substituted, namely:— "(1A) Where a Judge does not avail himself of the use of an official residence, he may be paid every month an allowance equivalent to an amount of twenty-four per centum of the salary which shall be increased at the rate of—
(a) twenty-seven per centum, when Dearness Allowance crosses twenty-five per centum; and
(b) thirty per centum, when Dearness Allowance crosses fifty per centum.".
8. In section 23B of the Supreme Court Judges Act, for the words "twenty thousand" and "fifteen thousand", the words "forty-five thousand" and "thirty-four thousand" shall respectively be substituted.
9. In the Schedule to the Supreme Court Judges Act,—
(a) in Part I,—
(i) in paragraph 2— (A) in clause (b), for the letters and figures "Rs. 12,180", "Rs. 3,69,300", and "Rs. 31,030", the letters and figures "Rs. 34,104", "Rs. 10,34,040", and "Rs. 86,884" shall respectively be substituted;
(B) in the proviso, for the letters and figures "Rs. 6,00,000", the letters and figures "Rs. 16,80,000" shall be substituted;
(ii) in paragraph 3, in the proviso, for the letters and figures "Rs. 5,40,000", the letters and figures "Rs. 15,00,000" shall be substituted;
(b) in Part III, in paragraph 2,— (A) in clause (b), for the letters and figures "Rs. 16,020", the letters and figures "Rs. 45,016" shall be substituted;
(B) in the proviso, for the letters and figures "Rs. 6,00,000" and "Rs. 5,40,000", the letters and figures "Rs. 16,80,000" and "Rs. 15,00,000" shall respectively be substituted.
———— DR. G. NARAYANA RAJU, Secretary to the Govt. of India.
Amendment of section 23.
Amendment of section
23B.
Amendment of the Schedule.
GMGIPMRND—3792GI(S3)—27-01-2018.
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