KARNATAKA ACT NO 23 OF 2005
KARNATAKA MINISTERS SALARIES AND ALLOWANCES (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2005
Arrangement Sections
Sections:
1. Short title and commencement
2. Amendment of section 3
3. Amendment of section 4
4. Amendment of section 6A
5. Amendment of section 6B
6. Amendment of section 7
7. Amendment of section 8
8. Amendment of section 12
STATEMENT OF OBJECTS AND REASONS
The salary and allowances of Ministers were last revised in the year 2000, after which there has been considerable rise in the living costs and relative depreciations of money value.
Therefore, it is considered necessary to enhance the salaries and allowances of the Ministers, Ministers of State and Deputy Ministers by amending the Karnataka Ministers Salaries and Allowances Act, 1956.
Hence the Bill.
[L.A. Bill No. 20 of 2005]
(Entry 40 of list II of Seventh Schedule to the Constitution of India.)
THE KARNATAKA MINISTERS SALARIES AND ALLOWANCES (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2005
(Received the assent of the Governor on the Twenty Second day of August, 2005)
A Act further to amend the Karnataka Ministers Salaries and Allowances Act, 1956.
Whereas, it is expedient further to amend the Karnataka Ministers Salaries and Allowances Act, 1956 (Karnataka Act 5 of 1957) for the purposes hereinafter appearing;
Be it enacted by the Karnataka State Legislature in the fifty-sixth year of the Republic of India as follows:-
1. Short title and commencement.-
(1) This Act may be called the Karnataka Ministers Salaries and Allowances (Amendment) Act, 2005.
(2) It shall come into force at once.
2. Amendment of section 3.-
In section 3 of the Karnataka Ministers Salaries and Allowances Act, 1956 (Karnataka Act 5 of 1957) (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act), for the words "six thousand rupees", the words “twelve thousand rupees”, and for the words "rupees five thousand", the words "rupees ten thousand” shall be substituted.
3. Amendment of section 4.-
In section 4 of the principal Act, in sub-section (1), for the words “ten thousand rupees”, the words “twenty thousand rupees” shall be substituted.
4. Amendment of section 6A.-
In section 6A of the principal Act, for the words "four thousand rupees", the words “eight thousand rupees” shall be substituted.
5. Amendment of section 6B.-
In section 6B of the principal Act, in sub-section (1), for the words “ten thousand rupees”, the words “twenty thousand rupees” shall be substituted.
6. Amendment of section 7.-
In section 7 of the principal Act, for the words "three thousand five hundred rupees", the words “seven thousand rupees” shall be substituted.
7. Amendment of section 8.-
In section 8 of the principal Act, in sub-section (1), for the words “ten thousand rupees”, the words “twenty thousand rupees” shall be substituted.
8. Amendment of section 12.-
In section 12 of the principal Act, in sub-section (2),-
(i) in clause (b), for the words "eight rupees", the words "twelve rupees" shall be substituted;
(ii) in clause (d), for the words “eight hundred rupees”, the words “one thousand rupees” shall be substituted; and in the first proviso to clause (d), for the words “one thousand rupees”, the words “one thousand two hundred rupees” shall be substituted. |
