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SALARY, ALLOWANCES AND PENSION OF MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT (AMENDMENT) ACT 2010

THE SALARY, ALLOWANCES AND PENSION OF MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT
(AMENDMENT) ACT, 2010
NO. 37 OF 2010
[21st September, 2010.]
An Act further to amend the Salary, Allowances and Pension of Members of Parliament
Act, 1954.
BE it enacted by Parliament in the Sixty-first Year of the Republic of India as
follows:--
1. Short title and commencement. - (1)
This Act may be called the Salary, Allowances
and Pension of Members of Parliament (Amendment) Act, 2010.
(2) Save as otherwise provided, it shall come into force on such date as the Central
Government may, by notification, in the Official
Gazette, appoint and different dates may
be appointed for different provisions of this Act.
2. Amendment of section 3. - In the Salary,
Allowances and Pension of Members of
Parliament Act, 1954 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act), in section 3,--
(i) for
the words "a salary at the rate of sixteen thousand rupees per mensem", the
words "a salary at the rate of fifty thousand rupees
per mensem" shall be substituted;
(ii) for the words "an allowance at the rate of one thousand rupees for each day", the
words "an
allowance at the rate of two thousand rupees for each day" shall be
substituted;
(iii) for the second proviso, the following proviso
shall be substituted, namely:--
"Provided further that the rates of salary specified in this section shall be
applicable from the
18th day of May, 2009.".
3. Amendment of section 4. - In the principal Act, in section 4, in sub-section (1),--
(i) in sub-clause
(ii) of clause (c), for the words "a road mileage at the rate of
thirteen rupees per kilometre", the words "a road mileage at the
rate of sixteen
rupees per kilometre" shall be substituted;
(ii) for the first proviso, the following proviso shall be substituted,
namely:--
"Provided that when Parliament is in session and the spouse of a Member,
if any, performs such journey or part thereof
by road, unaccompanied by such
Member, in respect of which such spouse has been allowed to travel by air or
partly by air and partly
by rail from the usual place of residence of the Member
to Delhi or back under sub-section (2) of section 6B, the road mileage
prescribed
under this sub-clause shall be allowed to such Member for such
journey or part thereof, subject to the condition that the total number
of such
journeys shall not exceed eight in a year;";
(iii) the third proviso shall be omitted.
4. Amendment of section 6B. - In the
principal Act, in section 6B, for sub-section (2),
the following sub-section shall be substituted, namely:--
"(2) Notwithstanding
anything contained in clause (ii) of sub-section (1), the spouse
of a Member shall be entitled to travel,--
(a) any number of times,
by railway in first class air-conditioned or executive
class in any train from the usual place of residence of the Member to Delhi
and
back; and
(b) when Parliament is in session, by air or partly by air and partly by rail, from
the usual place of residence of
the Member to Delhi or back, subject to the
condition that the total number of such air journeys shall not exceed eight in a
year:
Provided that where any such journey or part thereof is performed by air from
any place other than the usual place of residence of
the Member to Delhi and
back, then, such spouse shall be entitled to an amount equal to the fare by air
for such journey or part
thereof, as the case may be, or to the amount equal to
the journey performed by air from the usual place of residence of the Member
to Delhi and back, whichever is less.".
5. Amendment of section 8A. - In the principal Act, in section 8A, for sub-section (1), the
following sub-section shall be substituted, namely:--
`(1) With effect from the 18th day of May, 2009, there shall be paid a pension
of twenty thousand rupees per mensem to every person who has served for any
period as a Member of the Provisional Parliament or either
House of Parliament:
Provided that where a person has served as a Member of the Provisional Parliament
or either House of Parliament
for a period exceeding five years, there shall be paid
to him an additional pension of fifteen hundred rupees per mensem for every
year
served in excess of five years.
Explanation.-- For the purpose of this sub-section, "Provisional Parliament"
shall include the
body which functioned as the Constituent Assembly of the
Dominion of India immediately before the commencement of the Constitution.'.
6. Amendment of section 8B. - In the principal Act, in section 8B, for the words "one
lakh rupees", the words "four lakh rupees" shall be substituted.
V. K. BHASIN,
Secy.
to the Govt. of India.
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CORRIGENDUM
In the Legal Metrology Act, 2009 (No. 1 of 2010), as published in the
Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 1, dated the 14th January,
2010 (Issue No. 1),--
At Page 12, line 19, for "52", read "53".