THE PAYMENT OF SALARIES AND ALLOWANCES (AMENDMENT) ACT, 1990 [1]

(ACT 2 OF 1991)

      An Act further to amend the Payment of Salaries and Allowances Act, 1951.

      Preamble.— WHEREAS it is expedient further to amend the Payment of Salaries and Allowances Act, 1951, for the purposes hereafter appearing;

       BE it enacted in the Forty-first Year of the Republic of India as follows: —

      1. Short title and commencement.— (1) This Act may be called the Payment of Salaries and Allowances (Amendment) Act, 1990.

        (2) It shall be deemed to have come into force on the 1st day of December, 1989.

       2. Amendment of the Schedule.— In the Schedule to the Payment of Salaries and Allowances Act, 1951 (Act XIV of 1951 ),—

       (1) In paragraph I,—

        (i) for sub-clause (a) of clause (1) the following sub-clause shall be substituted, namely:—

        "(a) for journeys by road irrespective of the distance travelled— at the rate of Rs. 1.25 per kilometer subject to a minimum of fifty rupees per day for the period from the 1st day of December, 1989 to 31st day of December 1990 and thereafter at the rate of Rs.2 per kilometer subject to a minimum of seventy five rupees per day."

          (ii) for sub-clause (a) of clause (2), the following sub-clause shall be substituted, namely:—

          "(a) for journeys by road irrespective of the distance travelled—at the rate of Rs. 1.25 per kilometer for the period from the 1st day of December 1989 to 31st day of December, 1990 and thereafter at the rate of Rs.2 per kilometer.";

         (2) In. paragraph III,—

         (i) in clause (1), for the words "at the same rate per kilometre for road journey by special conveyance for the first two hundred kilometres applicable to first grade officers of Government from time to time, irrespective of the distance travelled", the words and figures "for journeys by road irres pective of the distance traveled - at the rate of Rs. 1.25 per kilometer for the period from the 1st day of December, 1989 to 31st day of December, 1990 and thereafter at the rate of Rs.2 per kilometer" shall be substituted;

         (ii) In clause (2), for the words "for journeys by road irrespective of the distance travelled—at the same rate per kilometer for special conveyance for the first two hundred kilometers applicable to first grade officers of Govern ment from time to time", the words and figures ''for journeys by road irres pective of the distance travelled—at the rate of Rs.1.25 per kilometer for the period from the 1st day of December 1989 to 31st day of December 1990 and thereafter at the rate of Rs.2 per kilometer" shall be substituted.