The Gujarat Legislative Assembly Members' Salaries and Allowances Act, 1960.

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    "title": "The Gujarat Legislative Assembly Members' Salaries and Allowances Act, 1960.",
    "short_title": "The Gujarat Legislative Assembly Members' Salaries and Allowances Act, 1960.",
    "act_number": "2",
    "act_year": 1960,
    "act_type": "STATE",
    "location": "Gujarat",
    "law_status": "valid",
    "enactment_date": "1960-09-22",
    "description": "The Gujarat Legislative Assembly Members' Salaries and Allowances Act, 1960.",
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        {
            "number": "1",
            "title": "Section 1. Short title and commencement.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(1) This Act may be called the Gujarat Legislative Assembly Members Salaries and Allowances Act, 1960.\r\n(2) It shall come into force on the Ist day of May 1960.",
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        {
            "number": "2",
            "title": "Section 2. Definitions.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "\r\n(a) \"Assembly\" means the Gujarat Legislative Assembly;\r\n",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": true,
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        },
        {
            "number": "2",
            "title": "Section 2. Definitions. 1(b)",
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            "content": "(b) \"Committee\" means a Committee of the Assembly;\r\n",
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            "is_definition": true,
            "sort_order": 41
        },
        {
            "number": "2",
            "title": "Section 2. Definitions. 1(c)",
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            "content": "(c) \"Member\" means a Member of the Assembly;\r\n",
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            "is_definition": true,
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        },
        {
            "number": "2",
            "title": "Section 2. Definitions. 1(d)",
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            "content": "(d) \"Minister\" and \"Deputy Minister\" mean respectively a Minister and\r\n& Deputy Minister of the Government of Gujarat, and \"Minister\" includes Chief Minister;\r\n",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": true,
            "sort_order": 43
        },
        {
            "number": "2",
            "title": "Section 2. Definitions. 1(e)",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "{e) \"Parliamentary Secretary\" means a Parliamentary Secretary to Minister\r\n",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": true,
            "sort_order": 44
        },
        {
            "number": "2",
            "title": "Section 2. Definitions. 1(f)",
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            "content": "(f) \"Speaker\" means the Speaker of the Assembly;\r\n",
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            "is_definition": true,
            "sort_order": 45
        },
        {
            "number": "2",
            "title": "Section 2. Definitions. 1(g)",
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            "content": "(g) \"term of office\" in relation to a Member means the period beginning\r\nwith the date when such Member takes his seat in the Assembly and ending with the date on which his seat becomes vacant:\r\nProvided that in the case of Members of the Bombay Legislative Assembly who are by virtue of section 15 of the Bombay Reorganization Act, 1960, deemed to have been elected to the Gujarat Legislative Assembly the period of their term of office shall for the purposes of this Act\r\nbe deemed to begin with the Ist day of May 1960.",
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            "sort_order": 46
        },
        {
            "number": "3",
            "title": "Section 3. Salaries to be paid to members and consolidated allowances.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "3. (1) There shall be paid to each Member during the whole of his term of office a salary at the rate of Rs. 150 per month.\r\n(2) There shall be paid to each Member during the whole of his term of office per month a sum of Rs. 100 as a consolidated allowance for all matters:\r\nnot specifically provided for by or under the provisions of this Act.",
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            "sort_order": 56
        },
        {
            "number": "4",
            "title": "Section 4. Daily allowance to be paid to Members.",
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            "content": "4. There shall be paid, subject to such rules or orders as may be made under section 10 in this behalf, to each Member a daily allowance at the rate of\r\nRs. 10 for each day of the period of residence for the purpose of attending the session of the Assembly or the meeting of a Committee, as the case may be, at the place where such session or meeting is held :\r\nProvided that in the case of a Member, who ordinarily resides or carries on business at the place where such session or meeting is held, there shall be paid to such Member, subject to the rules or orders as aforesaid, daily allowance at the rate of Rs. 10 for each day on which he attends such session\r\nor meeting; but a break of not more than three days between two successive meetings shall be deeted to be days of attendance for such Member who does not leave the place of session or meeting during such break.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 66
        },
        {
            "number": "5",
            "title": "Section 5. Traveling allowance to be paid to Members.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(1) There shall be paid to each Member a travelling allowance for a\r\njourney undertaken for the purpose of attending the session of the Assembly or a meeting of a Committee to the place where such session or meeting is held and for the return journey from such place-\r\n(i) at the rate of one and one-half of the fare of such elass provided on a\r\nrailway or steamer, as may be determined by rules or orders made under section 10, and\r\n(ii) at such rate per mile for a journey by road, sea or river in addition\r\nto the journey by railway or steamer, as may likewise be determined.\r\nProvided that nothing in this sub-section shall entitle a Member to\r\ntravelling allowance, if such Member ordinarily resides or carries on\r\nbusiness at the place where such session or meeting is held.\r\n(2) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1), there shall be\r\npaid to each Member a conveyance allowance at the rate of Rs. 3 per\r\nday for each day on which he attends such session or meeting.",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 76
        },
        {
            "number": "6",
            "title": "Section 6. Free transit by road transport service and payment of mileage.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "6. Every Member shall be provided with one free non-transferable pass which would entitle him to travel at any time in any part of the Revenue\r\nDivision in which his constituency is situated, by such road transport service,\r\nin such class of accommodation, and subject to such conditions, as may be determined, by rules or orders made under section 10:\r\nProvided that, nothing contained in this section shall affect the payment\r\nof any travelling allowance payable to a Member under section 5.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 106
        },
        {
            "number": "7",
            "title": "Section 7. Daily allowance and traveling allowance to Members on vacating seats. 7",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 126
        },
        {
            "number": "8",
            "title": "Section 8. Amenities.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "8. A Member shall be entitled to residential accommodation on such \r\nscales and on such conditions and to such free medical and other facilities as\r\nmay be determined by rules or orders made under section 10.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 136
        },
        {
            "number": "9",
            "title": "Section 9. Ministers. Deputy Ministers, Speaker, or salaried Parliamentary Secretaries not entitled to salaries and allowances under this Act.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "Notwithstanding anything contained in this Act, a Minister or Deputy Minister, the Speaker or a salaried Parliamentary Secretary shall not be entitled to any salary, allowances, or provision for residential accommodation\r\nunder this Act, by reason of the fact that Minister, Deputy Minister, Speaker,\r\nor salaried Parliamentary Secretary is a Member of the Assembly.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 156
        },
        {
            "number": "10",
            "title": "Section 10. Power to make rules and orders.",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "10. (1) (a) For the purpose of making rules or orders under this section,\r\nthere shall be constituted a Committee consisting of ten Members from the Assembly nominated by the Speaker. The Chairman of the Committee\r\nshall be appointed by the Speaker from amongst the Members thereof.\r\n(b) The Committee constituted under clause (a) shall have power to regulate its procedure.\r\n(c) A Member of the Committee shall hold office as such Member for one\r\nyear from the date of his nomination and any casual vacancy in the Committee\r\nmay be filled by nomination by the Speaker.\r\n(d) The Committee constituted under clause (a) may, in consultation\r\nwith the State Government, make rules or orders for carrying out the purposes of this Act.\r\n(e) Any rules or orders made under clause (d) shall be approved and con\r\nfirmed by the Speaker and shall be published in the Official Gazette; and\r\nsuch publication of the rules or orders shall be conclusive proof that they have been duly made.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 166
        },
        {
            "number": "10",
            "title": "Section 10. Power to make rules and orders. 10(a)",
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            "content": "(1A) Until a Committee is constituted under sub-section (I), the State Government in consultation with the Speaker, may make rules or orders for carrying out the purposes of this Act and any rule or order so made shall continue in force until superseded by any rule or order made by the Committee under sub-section (1).\r\n(2) Any rule or order made under this section may be made so as to be re- trospective to any date not earlier than the 1st day of May 1960.\r\n(3) Rules or orders made under this section shall have effect as if enacted in this Act.",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 167
        },
        {
            "number": "11",
            "title": "Section 11. Repeal of Guj. Ord. No. III of 1960 and Guj. Ord. No. X of 1960. 9",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "The Gujarat Legislative Assembly Members' Salaries and Allowances Ordinance, 1960 and the Gujarat Legislative Assembly Members Salaries  and Allowance (Amendment) Ordinance, 1960 are hereby repealed and the  provisions of sections 7 and 25 of the Bombay General Clauses Act, 1904 of shall apply to such repeal as if those Ordinances were enactments.",
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            "is_definition": false,
            "sort_order": 177
        }
    ],
    "metadata": {
        "Act ID": "19602",
        "Act Number": "2",
        "Enactment Date": "1960-09-22",
        "Act Year": "1960",
        "Short Title": "The Gujarat Legislative Assembly Members' Salaries and Allowances Act, 1960.",
        "Long Title": "An Act to provide for the salaries and allowances of M ember of the Gujarat Legislature and certain other matters.",
        "Department": "Legislative and Parliamentary Affairs Department",
        "Type": "STATE",
        "Location": "Gujarat"
    },
    "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:52:48"
}