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THE
CONTENTS
1. Short title and commencement......................................... 89
2. Definitions...................................................................... 89
3. Appointment and term of office....................................... 90
4. Salary............................................................................ 90
5. Sumptuary allowance...................................................... 90
6. Transport....................................................................... 90
7. Official residence............................................................ 91
8. Travelling allowance and Daily allowance
for business other than Assembly business.................. 91
9. Form of certificate.......................................................... 92
10. Additional travelling allowance......................................... 92
11. Daily allowance.............................................................. 92
12. Controlling Officer.......................................................... 92
13. Medical facilities............................................................. 92
14. Leave............................................................................ 92
15. Telephone...................................................................... 93
16. Office maintenance allowance......................................... 93
17 Power to make rules....................................................... 93
[1]THE
(Pb. Ord. LXXI of 2002)
[
An Ordinance to
provide for appointment, salary, allowances and privileges of Parliamentary
Secretaries in the Punjab
Preamble.– Whereas it is expedient to provide for
appointment, salary, allowances and privileges of Parliamentary Secretaries in
the
And
whereas the Provincial Assembly of the
And whereas under Article 4 of the Provisional Constitution
(Amendment) Order No.9 of 1999, as amended by the Chief Executive Order No.11
of
2000, the Governor of a Province may issue and promulgate an Ordinance;
Now,
therefore, in exercise of
the aforesaid powers and all other powers enabling him in that behalf, the
Governor of the Punjab is pleased to make
and promulgate the following
Ordinance:-
1. Short title and
commencement.– (1) This Ordinance may be called the Punjab Parliamentary
Secretaries (Salary, Allowances and Privileges) Ordinance, 2002.
(2) It shall come into force at once.
2. Definitions.– In this Ordinance, unless the subject or
context otherwise requires, the following expressions shall have the meanings
hereby respectively
assigned to them, that is to say –
(a) “Assembly” means the Provincial Assembly of
the
(b) “Government” means the Government of the
(c) “maintenance” in relation to a residence includes the payment of
local rates, taxes and the provision of electricity, gas and water;
(d) “meeting” means a meeting of the Assembly or any of its Committees
from the commencement of its business to the termination of the
business of a
day;
(e) “official residence” includes accommodation in Pipals House, a
hostel, a rented house or any other accommodation owned, managed or
arranged by
the Government;
(f) “Parliamentary Secretary” means the
Parliamentary Secretary appointed as such by the Chief Minister; and
(g) “session” means the period commencing on the day of the first
meeting of the Assembly after having been summoned and ending on the
day the
Assembly is prorogued or dissolved.
3. Appointment
and term of office.–(1) The
Chief Minister may appoint such number of Parliamentary Secretaries as may be
determined.
(2) A Parliamentary Secretary shall hold
office during the pleasure of the Chief Minister.
4. Salary.– The salary of a Parliamentary Secretary
shall be twenty thousand rupees per month.
5. Sumptuary allowance.– A
Parliamentary Secretary shall be entitled to receive three thousand rupees per
month as sumptuary allowance.
6. Transport.– (1) A
Parliamentary Secretary shall be entitled to the use of one official car both
for official and private use.
(2) A sum of Rs.8,000/- per mensem shall be
admissible to a Parliamentary Secretary as petrol and car maintenance allowance
and the expense
on petrol and maintenance of car shall be the responsibility of
the Parliamentary Secretary.
(3) The allowance mentioned in sub-section (2)
shall be admissible to a Parliamentary Secretary whether or not an official car
has been
provided to him.
(4) On ceasing to hold office, a Parliamentary
Secretary shall return the car within three days.
7. Official residence.– (1)
A Parliamentary Secretary shall be entitled, without payment of rent, to the
use of an official residence including accommodation
on tour throughout his
term of office, and for a period of fifteen days immediately thereafter.
(2) If at the time of entering upon office an
official residence is not available, a Parliamentary Secretary shall, until
such residence
is provided by the Government, be paid the house rent of rupees
fifteen thousand per month.
(3) Where a Parliamentary Secretary chooses to
reside–
(i) in his own house; or
(ii) in a rented house occupied by him before his
appointment as a Parliamentary Secretary,
he
may be paid a monthly sum of fifteen thousand rupees in lieu of Government Rest
House and to cover all expenses on its maintenance.
8. Travelling allowance and
Daily allowance for business other than Assembly business.– Where a
Parliamentary Secretary is called by a Government Department in connection with
any official business in his capacity as
a Parliamentary Secretary, he shall be
paid by that Department, travelling allowance and daily allowance for the days
of journey
from and to his ordinary place of residence and for the day or days
he is required to attend any such official business, at the rates
admissible to
him under this Ordinance.
9. Form
of certificate.– Every
claim by a Parliamentary Secretary for travelling allowance or daily allowance
shall be supported by a written certificate in
the following form signed by
him:-
“Certified that the amount has not been
claimed by me in any other bill or drawn by me from any other source.”
10. Additional travelling
allowance.– Notwithstanding anything contained in section 8, a Parliamentary
Secretary shall be provided a sum of forty thousand rupees per annum
to travel
within
11. Daily
allowance.– A Parliamentary
Secretary while on tour shall be entitled to draw an allowance of five hundred
and fifty rupees per day:
Provided
that where the duration of tour is less than eight hours, one half daily
allowance shall be admissible.
12. Controlling
Officer.– The Minister with
whom a Parliamentary Secretary is attached shall be his Controlling Officer for
purposes of travelling allowance
and daily allowance.
13. Medical facilities.– A
Parliamentary Secretary shall be entitled for himself, spouse, minor children
and unmarried daughters residing with or wholly dependant
on the Parliamentary
Secretary to free indoor as well as outdoor medical facilities of the standard
admissible to a Class-I Officer
of the Government.
14. Leave.– (1) The Chief Minister may grant a
Parliamentary Secretary during his term of office, at any one time or from time
to time, leave
of absence for urgent reasons of health or private affairs, for
a period not exceeding three months in the aggregate.
(2) The leave allowance of a Parliamentary
Secretary shall be the same as his salary.
15. Telephone.– (1) A Parliamentary Secretary shall be
entitled to, at the Government expense, the facility of a telephone at the
place where he
ordinarily resides:
Provided that Government shall pay only rupees seven thousand
per month as charges of rent of the telephone and the calls made therefrom
irrespective of whether the telephone is a private connection or installed at
Government expense.
(2) The telephone bills shall be paid by the
Parliamentary Secretary himself.
16. Office
maintenance allowance.– A
Parliamentary Secretary shall be entitled to receive an office maintenance allowance
at the rate of five thousand rupees per month.
17. Power
to make rules.– Government
may, by notification in the official Gazette, make rules for carrying out the
purposes of this Ordinance.
[1]Promulgated by the Governor
of the
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