Salaries and Allowances of Officers of Parliament Act, 1953
No: 20 Dated: May, 16 1953
THE SALARIES AND ALLOWANCES OF OFFICERS OF PARLIAMENT ACT, 1953
ACT NO. 20 OF 1953
An Act to provide for the salaries and allowances of certain officers of Parliament.
BE it enacted by Parliament as follows:—
1. Short title and commencement.—(1) This Act may be called the Salaries and Allowances of Officers of Parliament Act, 1953.
(2) It shall be deemed to have come into force on the first day of May, 1953.
2. Definition.—In this Act “officer of Parliament” means any of the following officers, namely, the Chairman and Deputy Chairman of the Council of States and the Speaker and the Deputy Speaker of the House of the People.
3. Salaries, etc., of officers of Parliament.—(1) There shall be paid to the Chairman of the Council of States a salary of four lakh 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 and an allowance for each day during the whole of his 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, 1954 (30 of 1954) with respect to members of Parliament.
(3) Each officer of Parliament, other than the Chairman of the Council of States, 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.
4. Residence for officers of Parliament.— (1) Each officer of Parliament shall be entitled without payment of rent to the use of a furnished residence throughout his term of office and for a period of one month immediately thereafter, and no charge shall fall on the officer personally in respect of the maintenance of such residence.
(2) In the event of the death of an officer of Parliament, his family shall be entitled to the use of the furnished residence occupied by the officer of Parliament—
(a) for a period of one month immediately after his death, without payment of rent and no charge shall fall on the family of the officer of Parliament in respect of the maintenance of such residence, and
(b) for a further period of one month, on payment of rent at such rates as may be prescribed by rules made in this behalf under section 11 and also charges in respect of electricity and water consumed in that residence during such further period.
Explanation.—For the purposes of this section, “residence” includes the staff quarters and other buildings appurtenant thereto and the garden thereof, and “maintenance” in relation to a residence includes the payment of local rates and taxes and the provision of electricity and water.