The Andhra Pradesh Payment of Salaries and Pension and Removal of Disqualifications (Amendment) Act, 1986

1. (1) This Act may be called the Andhra Pradesh Payment of Salaries and Pension and Removal of Disqualifications (Amendment) Act, 1991.
2. (2) It shall be deemed to have come into force on the 6th December, 1990.

In the Andhra Pradesh Payment of Salaries and Pension and Removal of Disqualifications Act, 1953 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act), for section 9-B, the following shall be substituted, namely:- “9-B. Advances to Ministers, Deputy Ministers, Chief Whip in the Assembly, Whips in the Assembly, Speaker and Deputy Speaker for purchase of motor cars:- Any Minister, Deputy Minister, Chief Whip or Whip in the Assembly, the Speaker or the Deputy Speaker may be paid by way of a repayable advance a sum of money as may be prescribed for the purchase of motor car in order that he may be able to discharge conveniently and efficiently the duties of his office:”

For section 11A of the principal Act, the following shall be substituted, namely: Medical facilities to the Members of the Legislative Assembly and their families. 11A. Subject to such conditions as may be determined by rules made by the Government, every Member of the Legislative Assembly, who does not hold any of the offices referred to in sections 3 to 5 and sections 12A and 12B, and the members of his family shall be entitled to,-

1. (a) a medical allowance of rupees five hundred per mensum in lieu of supply of medicines free of charge from State Government hospital or dispensary;
2. (b) free accommodation and medical treatment in any hospital maintained by the State Government:
3. (c) reimbursement of the charges incurred towards hospitalisation in any Government hospital or in the Nizam's Institute of Medical Sciences, Hyderabad, where such hospitalisation is advised;
4. (d) medical treatment in any hospital outside India; and
5. (e) the provision of artificial limbs, hearing aids and the like at the cost of the State Government; Provided that, the cost to be borne or the amount to be reimbursed by the State Government in respect of medical treatment,-
   • (i) in any hospital within or outside India, shall not exceed such sum as may be specified in the rules made by the State Government in this behalf, inclusive of the fare for air passage and expenditure incurred towards personal attendant, in case where facility for such treatment is available in any hospital in India; or
   • (ii) in any hospital outside India, shall not exceed the actual expenditure incurred for such treatment and the fare for air passage of the person treated and his personal attendant in case facility for such treatment is not available in any hospital in India;
   • (iii) in respect of hospitalisation in any Government hospital or in the Nizam's Institute of Medical Sciences, Hyderabad, the amount to be reimbursed shall not exceed rupees forty thousand on each occasion.

In the principal Act, in section 11-B, in sub-section (1), for the existing proviso, the following proviso shall be substituted, namely:- “ Provided that where any such member does not use the accommodation provided by the State Government under this sub-section, such member shall be paid an accommodation allowance at the rate of rupees two thousand per mensum.”

For section 11-E of the principal Act, the following shall be substituted, namely: - “11-E. Advance to Members of the Legislative Assembly for purchase of motor car:- A Member of the Legislative Assembly may be paid by way of repayable advance a sum of money as may be prescribed for the purchase of a motor car.”

In section 11-B of the principal Act, in sub-section (1), in the proviso for the words “two thousand rupees”, the words “three thousand rupees” shall be substituted.

Amendment of Section 11-D :- In section 11-D of the principal Act, in sub-section (1), for the words “one hundred rupees”, the words “two hundred rupees” and for the words “one thousand rupees”, the words “two thousand rupees” shall be substituted.

In section 11B of the principal Act,-

1. (1) in sub-section (1),-
   • (a) in the opening portion, words “whose annual income does not exceed rupees six thousand and” shall be omitted;
   • (b) in clause
     • (iii) for the words “fifty rupees per mensem”, the words “one hundred rupees per mensem” and for the words “five hundred rupees per mensem”, the words “one thousand rupees per mensem” shall respectively be substituted.
2. (2) after sub-section (3), the following sub-section shall be added, namely :- “(4) The widow of a deceased Member, who is not re-married, shall be entitled to receive half the pension, which deceased Member would have been entitled to receive under this section, had he been alive”.

After section 11D of the principal Act, the following section shall be inserted, namely:- 11E. Subject to such rules as may be made by the State Government in this behalf, there may be paid to a Member of the Legislative Assembly by way of repayable advance a sum not exceeding rupees sixty thousand, for the purchase of a motor car.