REGISTERED No. D-(D)-72 The Gazette of India EXTRAORDINARY
PART II—Section 1 PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY No. 94] NEW DELHI, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1985/PAUSA 5, 1907 Separate paging is given to this Part in order that it may be filed as a separate compilation 20 of 1953.
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 OFFICERS OF PARLIAMENT (AMENDMENT) ACT, 1985 No. 75 of 1985 [26th December, 1985.]
An Act further to amend the Salaries and Allowances of Officers of Parliament Act, 1953.
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 Allowances of Officers of Parliament (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 Officers of Parliament Act, 1953 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act), the following section shall be substituted, namely: — "3. (1) There shall be paid to the Chairman of the Council of States a salary of seven thousand five hundred rupees per mensem.
(2) Each officer of Parliament, other than the Chairman of the Council of States, shall be entitled to receive a salary per mensem Short title and commencement.
Substitution of new section for section
3.
Salaries, etc., of officers of Parliament.
(1) a THE GAZETTE OP INDIA EXTRAORDINARY [PART H - S B C . 1] Substitution of new section for section 5.
Sumptuary allowance.
Amendment of section 6.
Insertion of new section
10A.
Exemption from liability to pay incometax on certain perquisites received by an officer of Parliament.
and an allowance for each day during the whole of h,is term as such officer at the same rates as are specified In section 3 of the Salaries, Allowances and Pension of Members of Parliament Act, 1&54 with respect to members of Parliament.
(3) Each officer of Parliament, other than the Chairman of the Council of Stages, shall be entitled to receive a constiftrefiey allowance at the sarn* 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 section shall tie substituted, namely: — "5. There shall be paid to the Chairman of the Council of States and the Speaker of the House of the People a sumptuary allowance of one thousand rupees per mensem and to the Deputy Chairman and the Deputy Speaker a sumptuary allowance of five hundred rupees per mensem.".
4. In section 6 of the principal Act, after sub-section (1), the following sub-section shall be inserted, namely: — '(IA) An officer of Parliament 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 a t which travelling allowances are payable to such officer 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: — *I0A. Notwithstanding anything contained in the Infcome-tax Act, 1961, the value of rent free furnished residence (including maintenance thereof) provided to an officer of Parliament under ' sub-section (2) of section 4 shall not be included in the computation of his income chargeable under the head "Salaries" under Bectlon 15 of the Income-tax Act, 1961.'.
30 of 1954 43 of 1B61.
R. V. S. PERI SASTRI, Secy, to the Govt. oj India- PPINTED BY THB GENERAL MANAGER, GOVERNMENT OF INDIA PRESS, ^ONTO ROAD, NEW DELHI AND PUJLISHED BY THE CONTROLLER OV PUBLICATIONS, tffiLJQ, 1985