The Haryana Salaries and Allowances of Ministers Act, 1970

This Act may be called the Haryana Salaries and Allowances of Ministers Act, 1970.

In this Act, "Minister" means a member of the Council of Ministers, by whatever name called, and includes a Deputy Minister.

There shall be paid to each Minister, other than a Deputy Minister, a salary of one thousand and five hundred rupees per mensem, and to each Deputy Minister a salary of eight hundred rupees per mensem: Provided that the Chief Minister shall also be paid a sumptuary allowance of five hundred rupees per mensem.

Each Minister shall be erftitled without payment of rent to the use of a furnished residence throughout his term of office and for a period of fifteen days immediately thereafter, and no charge shall fall on the Minister personally in respect of the maintenance of such residence, or in lieu of such residence shall be entitled to be paid (a) in the case of a Deputy Minister, such allowance not exceeding one hundred and fifty rupees per mensem; and (b) in the case of any other Minister, such allowance not exceeding three hundred rupees per mensem; as the State Government may in each case determine. Explanation.—For the purposes of this section, "residepce" includes the staff quarters and other buildings appurtenant thereto, and the garden thereof, and "maintenance", in relation to a residence, includes the payment of local rates and taxes and the provision of electricity and water.

Each Minister shall be paid a conveyance allowance at the rate of three hundred rupees per mensem or, in lieu thereof, a State car, the expenses on the maintenance and propulsion of which shall be borne by the State Government: Provided that the maintenance and propulsion expenses of the State car in use by a Minister shall not be subject to the limit of three hundred rupees per mensem.

The Minister's salary and allowances referred to in this Act shall be exclusive of the tax payable in respect thereof under any law relating to income-tax for the time being in force, and such tax shall be borne by the State Government. Explanation.—For the purposes of this section, the salary and allowances received by the Minister during any financial year shall be deemed to be his only income for that year.

No person in receipt of any salary or allowance under this Act shall be entitled to receive any sum out of the funds provided by the State Legislature by way of salary or allowance in respect of his membership of the House of the State Legislature.

The travelling and daily allowances of the Ministers shall be regulated in accordance with such rules as may be framed by the State Government from time to time : provided that no mileage or travelling allowance shall be chargeable in respect of journeys performed in a State car.

(1) The State Government may, by notification, make rules for carrying out the purposes of this Act: Provided that any rules relating to any matter to which this Act relates and which were in force immediately before the commencement of this Act, shall, in so far as they are not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, and until rules are framed under this Act in respect of such matter, be deemed to be made under this Act. (2) Every rule made under this section shall be laid as soon as may be after it is made before the House of the State Legislature while it is in session for a total period of ten days which may be comprised in one session or in two or more successive sessions, and if, before the expiry of the session in which it is so laid or the successive sessions aforesaid, the House agrees in making any modification in the rule or the House agrees that the rule should not be made, the rules shall thereafter have effect only in such modified form or be of no effect, as the case maybe; so however, that any such modification or annulment shall be without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under that rule.

(1) The East Punjab Ministers' Salaries Act, 1947 (East Punjab Act No. 6 of 1947), and the Salaries and Allowances of Deputy Ministers, Punjab Act, 1956 (Punjab Act No. 22 of 1956), in their application to the State of Haryana and the Haryana Salaries and Allowances of Ministers Ordinance, 1970 (Haryana Ordinance No. 3 of 1970), are hereby repealed. (2) Notwithstanding such repeal, anything done or any action taken under the Haryana Salaries and Allowances of Ministers Ordinance, 1970, shall be deemed to have been done or taken under this Act as if this Act had commenced on the 23rd January, 1970.