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 hereinafter appearing;
BE it enacted in the Nineteenth Year of the Republic of India as follows:-
1.Short title.—This Act may be called the Payment of Salaries and Allowances (Second Amendment) Act, 1968.
2.Amendment of section 5A.—For section 5A of the payment of Salaries and Allowances Act, 1951 (Act XIV of 1951) (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act), the following section shall be, and shall be deemed to have been, substituted with effect from the 1st day of January 1968, namely:-
“5A. Medical facilities for Ministers and Speaker.—Subject to any rules made in this behalf, a Minister and the members of his family and the Speaker and the members of his family shall be entitled free of charge to medical treatment and medical attendance and to all other benefits in connection therewith, to the same extent as a first grade officer of the State Government and the members of his family are respectively entitled to from time to time.
Explanation.-For the purposes of this section—
(i) “members of family” means the wife or husband, children including adopted children, step children, and parents wholly dependent upon the Minister or the Speaker, as the case may be; and
(ii) “first grade officer” means an officer classified as a first grade officer under Rule I, Part II of the Kerala Service Rules, 1959.”
3.Amendment of schedule.—In the schedule to the principal Act,--in paragraph 1,--
(a) in clause (1),-
(A) in sub-clause (a),-
(i) for the words “thirty-two paise per kilometer”, the words “twenty-seven paise per kilometer” shall be substituted;
(ii) in the proviso, for the words “sixty-four paise per kilometer”, the words “forty paise per kilometer” shall be substituted;
(B) in sub-clause (d),-
for the words “actual fare plus one-fifth the fare for incidental expenses”, the words “actual fare plus one-fifth the fare for incidental expenses subject to a maximum of Rs.50 for each journey” shall be substituted;
(b) in clause (2), in sub-clause (a),-
(i) for the words “thirty-two paise per kilometer”, the words “twenty-seven paise per kilometer” shall be substituted;
(ii) in the proviso, for the words “sixty-four paise per Kilometre”, the words “forty paise per kilometer” shall be substituted.
