REGISTERED No. D-(D)-72 The Gazette of India EXTRAORDINARY
PART II—Section 1 PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY No. 92] NEW DELHI, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 96, 1985/PAUSA 5, 1907 Separate paging is given to this Part in order that it may be filed as a separate compilation 58 of 1952.
30 of 1964.
MINISTRY OF LAW AND JUSTICE (Legislative Department) New Delhi, the 26th December, 1985/Pausa 5, 1907 (Saka) The following Act of Parliament received the assent of the President on the 26th December, 1985, and is hereby published for general information: — THE SALARIES AND ALLOWANCES OF MINISTERS (AMENDMENT) ACT, 1985 No. 76 of 1985 [26th December, 1935.]
An Act further to amend the Salaries and Allowances of Ministers Act, 1952.
Be it enacted by Parliament in the Thirty-sixth Year of the Republic of India as follows:—
1. (1) This Act may be called the Salaries and Allowance of Ministers (Amendment) Act, 1985.
(2) It shall come into force on such date as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.
2. For section 3 of the Salaries and Allowances of Ministers Act, 1952 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act), the following section shall be substituted, namely:— "3. (1) Each Minister shall be entitled to receive a salary per mensem, and an allowance for each day during the whole of his term as such Minister at the same rates as are specified in section 3 of the Salaries, Allowances and Pension of Members of Parliament Act, 1954 with respect to members of Parliament.
Short title and commencement.
Substitution of new section for section 3.
Salaries, and daily and constituency allowances.
(1) a THE GAZETTE OP INDIA EXTRAORIStNAftY £FABT M^SEC, 1] Substitution of new section for section S.
Sumptuary allowance to Ministers.
(2) JEach Minister shall be entitled to receive a constituency allowance at the same rate as is specified under section 8 of the said Act with respect to members of Parliament",
3. For section 5 of the principal Act, the following station shall be substituted, namely:— Amendment of section 6.
Insertion of newsection IDA.
Exemption fr&m liability to pay incometax on certain perquisites received by a "5. There shall be paid a sumptuary allowance to each Minister ftt the following rates, namely:—
(a) <b)
(c) the Prime Minister every other Minister who is a member of the Cabinet a Minister of State a Deputy Minister Kupees one thousand five hundred per mensem;
Rupees one thousand per mensem;
Rupees five hundred per mensem;
Rupees three hundred per mensem.".
4. In section 6 of the principal Act, after sub-section (I), the following sub-section shall be inserted, namely:— ' (1A) A Minister and any one member of his family accompanying him shall be entitled to travelling allowances in respect of not more than six return journeys performed, during each year, within India, at the same rates at which travelling allowances are payable to such Minister under clause (b) of sub-section (1) in respect of tours referred to in that clause.
Explanation.—For the purposes of this sub-section, "return journey" means a journey from one place to another place and the return journey from such other place to the first mentioned place.'.
5- In the principal Act, after section 10, the following section shall be inserted, namely:— '10A. Notwithstanding anything contained in the Income-tax Act, 1961, the value of rent free furnished residence (including maintenance thereof) provided to a Minister under sub-septlon (1) of section 4 shall not be included in the computation of his Income chargeable under the head "Salaries" under section 15 of the Incometax Act, "l961.\ 43 of 1901 R. V. S. PERI SASTRI, Secy, to tke Ctovt of India.
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