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In this Act,— (a) "Neta Pratipaksha" means that member of the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly who is, for the time being, the leader in the Legislative Assembly of the party in opposition to the State Government having the greatest numerical strength and recognised as such by the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly ; Explanation.—Where there are two or more parties in opposition to the State Government in the Assembly having the same numerical strength, the Speaker of the Assembly shall having regard to the status of the parties, recognise any one of the leaders of such parties as Neta Pratipaksha for the purposes of this section and such recognition shall be final and conclusive. (b) For the existing Schedule of the Chhattisgarh Vidhan Mandal Neta Pratipaksha (Vetan Tatha Bhatta) Adhiniyam, 1980 (No. 8 of 1980), the following Schedule shall be substituted, namely:-

"SCHEDULE [See Section 2 (c)]

Section | Pay/Allowance Particular | Amount (1) | (2) | (3) Section 3 | Salary of Neta Pratipaksha | Rs. 45,000 per mensem Section 4(2) | Constituency allowance to the Neta Pratipaksha | Rs. 70,000 per mensem Section 4(3) | Daily allowance to the Neta Pratipaksha | Rs. 2,500 per day"