The Rajasthan Legislative Assembly (Officers and Members Emoluments and Pension) (Amendment) Act, 2019

(1) This Act may be called the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly (Officers and Members Emoluments and Pension) (Amendment) Act, 2019.

(2) It shall come into force at once.

In clause (aa) of sub-section (1) of section 2 of the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly (Officers and Members Emoluments and Pension) Act, 1956 (Act No. 6 of 1957), hereinafter in this Act referred to as the principal Act, the existing expression “telephone facility,” shall be deleted.

In section 3 of the principal Act,-

(a) in sub-section (1),-

(i) in clause (a), for the existing expression “fifty thousand rupees”, the expression “seventy thousand rupees” shall be substituted; and

(ii) in clause (b), for the existing expression “forty five thousand rupees”, the expression “sixty five thousand rupees” shall be substituted; and

(b) in sub-section (2), for the existing expression “1st April, 2017”, the expression “1st April, 2019” shall be substituted.

In section 3-A of the principal Act,- (a) for the existing expression "1st April, 2017", the expression "1st April, 2019" shall be substituted; and (b) for the existing expression "fifty thousand rupees", the expression " eighty thousand rupees" shall be substituted.

In section 4 of the principal Act, for the existing expression "twenty five thousand rupees per mensem with effect from 1st April, 2017", the expression "forty thousand rupees per mensem with effect from 1st April, 2019" shall be substituted. `

In sub-section (1) of section 4-A of the principal Act,- (a) for the existing expression "1st April, 2017", the expression "1st April, 2019" shall be substituted; and (b) for the existing expression "rupees twenty five thousand", the expression "rupees thirty five thousand " shall be substituted.

In section 4-D of the principal Act,- (a) for the existing expression "1st April, 2017", the expression "1st April, 2019" shall be substituted ; (b) for the existing expression "rupees fifty thousand", the expression "rupees one lakh" shall be substituted; and (c) for the existing punctuation mark ".", appearing at the end, the punctuation mark ":" shall be substituted and thereafter the following proviso shall be added, namely:- "Provided that if the total amount of reimbursement received in a financial year under this section is less than one lakh rupees, the amount by which the amount of reimbursement is less than one lakh rupees shall be carried forward for one financial year and the whole amount remained unutilised at the end of second financial year shall stand lapsed.".

After the existing section 4-D and before the existing section 5 of the principal Act, the following new section shall be inserted, namely:- "4-E. Travelling facility to the spouse of the Ex-member.- The spouse of a deceased Ex-member shall be provided one hundred travelling passes per annum which would entitle her/him to travel by the Rajasthan State Road Transport Corporation service on whichever route it operates in such class of accommodation and subject to such conditions as may be prescribed by the rules made in this behalf.".

In section 5 of the principal Act,- (a) in sub-section (1),- (i) for the existing expression "1st April, 2017", the expression "1st April, 2019"; (ii) for the existing expression "forty five thousand rupees", the expression "sixty five thousand rupees"; and (iii) for the existing expression "forty two thousand rupees", the expression "sixty two thousand rupees", shall be substituted; and (b) in sub-section (2),- (i) for the existing expression "1st April, 2017", the expression "1st April, 2019"; and (ii) for the existing expression "to the Government Chief Whip and Deputy Government Chief Whip, a sumptuary allowance of fifty thousand rupees per mensem", the expression " a sumptuary allowance of eighty thousand rupees per mensem to the Government Chief Whip and a sumptuary allowance of seventy thousand rupees per mensem to the Deputy Government Chief Whip", shall be substituted.