THE KARNATAKA LEGISLATURE SALARIES, PENSIONS & ALLOWANCES (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2002
Arrangement of Sections
Sections:
1. Short title and commencement
2. Amendment of section 8
3. Amendment of section 12
STATEMENT OF OBJECTS AND REASONS
It is considered necessary to amend the Karnataka Legislature Salaries Pensions and Allowances Act, 1956 (Karnataka Act 2 of 1957) to provide for,-
(a) grant of Constituency Travelling Allowance of rupees ten thousand per annum in lieu of the Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation bus passes to them; and
(b) enhancement of payment towards meeting the expenditure on telephone calls from rupees five thousand per month to six thousand five hundred rupees per month and to cancel the existing system of re-imbursement of 3000 local call charges once in two months, (as per O.M. No. Adm-1/73/LG/98, dated: 31.12.1998)
Hence the Bill.
(LA BILL No. 30 OF 2002)
(Entry 38 of List II of the Seventh Schedule to the Constitution of India)
KARNATAKA ACT NO.1 OF 2004
(First published in the Karnataka Gazette Extra-ordinary on the nineteenth day of January 2004)
THE KARNATAKA LEGISLATURE SALARIES, PENSIONS AND ALLOWANCES (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2002
(Received the assent of the Governor on the nineteenth day of January 2004)
An Act further to amend the Karnataka Legislature Salaries, Pensions and Allowances Act, 1956.
Whereas it is expedient further to amend the Karnataka Legislature Salaries, Pensions and Allowances Act, 1956 (Karnataka Act 2 of 1957) for the purposes hereinafter appearing;
Be it enacted by the Karnataka State Legislature in the fifty-third year of the Republic of India, as follows:-
1. Short title and commencement.- (1) This Act may be called the Karnataka Legislature Salaries, Pensions and Allowances (Amendment) Act, 2002.
(2) It shall come into force with effect from the first day of April, 2003.
2. Amendment of section 8.- In section 8 of the Karnataka Legislature Salaries, Pensions and Allowances Act, 1956 (Karnataka Act 2 of 1957) (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act), in sub-section (2) in clause (b), for the words “eight rupees” the words “ten rupees” shall be substituted.
3. Amendment of section 12.- In section 12 of the principal Act,-
(a) in clause (a), for the words “six rupees” the words “eight rupees” shall be substituted.
(b) for clause (cc), the following shall be substituted, namely:-
“(cc) every member of the Legislative Assembly and of the Legislative Council shall be entitled to receive in the prescribed manner, a sum of rupees fifteen thousand per annum in two equal instalments payable in the months of April and October as Constituency Travelling Allowance.”
(c) in clause (d), for the words “such rent not being less than two rupees a day as may be prescribed” the words “rent as specified by the Board from time to time” shall be substituted.
(d) in clause (h), in item (i), for the words “five thousand rupees per month” the words “six thousand five hundred rupees per month” shall be substituted. |
