Salaries and Allowances of Deputy Ministers, Punjab Act, 1956
No: 22 Dated: Sep, 19 1956
The Salaries and Allowances of Deputy Ministers, Punjab Act, 1956
(Punjab Act 22 of 1956)
An Act to provide for the salaries and allowances of Deputy Ministers in the State of Punjab.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Punjab in the Seventh Year of the Republic of India, as follows :-
1. Short title and commencement. - (1) This Act may be called the Salaries and Allowances of Deputy Ministers Punjab Act, 1956.
(2) It shall be deemed to have come into force with effect from 23rd April, 1956.
2. Definitions. - In this Act unless the context otherwise requires, -
(a) "House" includes the staff quarters and other buildings appurtenant thereto and the gardens thereof.
(b) "Maintenance" in relation to a house shall include the payment of local rates and taxes and charges for electricity and water.
3. Salaries of Deputy Ministers. - There shall be paid to each Deputy Minister, a salary at the rate of two thousand, two hundred and fifty rupees per mensem and sumptuary allowance at the rate of one thousand rupees per mensem.
4. Residence of Deputy Ministers. - Each Deputy Minister shall be entitled - throughout his term of office and for a period of fifteen days immediately thereafter to the use of a house for residence furnished and maintained by the State Government or in lieu thereof, he shall be paid such allowance not exceeding one hundred and fifty rupees per mensem as the State Government may fix.
Explanation. - The Deputy Minister shall not become liable personally for any payment in case the standard rent of the house allotted to him for residence exceeds one hundred and fifty rupees per mensem.
5. Conveyance Allowance. - Each Deputy Minister shall be entitled to the use of a car the expenses on the maintenance and propulsion of which shall be borne by the State Government, or in lieu thereof to a conveyance allowance of three hundred rupees per mensem :
Provided that the maintenance and propulsion expenses of the State car in use by the Deputy Minister shall not be subject to the limit of three hundred rupees.
5A. (1) Every Deputy Minister shall be entitled to have a telephone installed at any place within his Constituency or at his place of residence or at Chandigarh and all charges in respect of installation and security deposit shall be paid by the Deputy Minister himself and the amount so paid shall be reimbursed to the Deputy Minister, by the Government, on production of receipts obtained from the Posts and Telegraph Department;
(2) The charges in respect of rental, local and outside calls made by a Deputy Minister from one or more telephones installed in his name within the State of Punjab and the Union Territory of Chandigarh shall be paid initially by the Deputy Minister himself and the amount so paid shall also be reimbursed to the Deputy Minister by the Government on production of receipts obtained from the Posts and Telegraph Department :
Provided that the reimbursement of charges referred to in sub- sections (1) and (2) shall not exceed forty eight thousand rupees per annum.