Pension

(1) On and from the commencement of this Act, there shall be paid a life time pension of three hundred rupees per mensem to every person who has served as a Member of the Assembly for a period of five years whether before or after the commencement of this Act and whether continuously or in broken periods: Provided that where any person has served as aforesaid for a period exceeding five years, there shall be paid to him an additional pension of fifty rupees per mensem for every year in excess of five, so, however, that in no case the pension payable to such person shall exceed five hundred rupees per mensem: Provided further that any person who has served as aforesaid for a period which is less than five years shall also be paid a pension of one hundred rupees per month. (2) In computing the number of years for the purposes of sub-section (1), the period during which a person has served as Speaker or Deputy Speaker of the Assembly or as Chief Minister, Minister, Minister of State or Deputy Minister or in more than one of these capacities by virtue of his membership of the Assembly, shall also be taken into account. (1) In the Sikkim Legislative Assembly Members (Payment of Pension) Act, 1984, in the second proviso of sub-section (1), for the word "Sixty" the words "seventy five" shall be substituted. (2) In the said Act, in section 3, sub-section (1), (a) for the words "one thousand rupees" wherever they occur, the words "two thousand rupees" shall be substituted; (b) for the words "two thousand rupees" the words "three thousand rupees" shall be substituted. (3) In the said Act, in section 3, after sub-section (2) the following sub-section shall be inserted namely:- "(3) In the event of death of Ex Legislator, his/her spouse shall be entitled to draw family pension at the rate of 75% of the pension amount to which the deceased would have been entitled had he been alive". (4) In section 3 of the Sikkim Legislative Assembly Members (Payment of Pension) Act, 1984, in sub-section (1); (a) for the words "two thousand rupees" wherever they occur, the words "four thousand rupees" shall be substituted; (b) for the words "one hundred rupees" the words "two hundred rupees" shall be substituted; (c) for the words "three thousand rupees" the words "six thousand rupees" shall be substituted. (5) In the Sikkim Legislative Assembly Members (Payment of Pension) Act, 1984, in sub-section (1) of section 3, (a) for the words "four thousand rupees" the words "six thousand rupees" shall be substituted; (b) after the words "five years" and before the word "whether" the following words shall be inserted, namely:- "and a life long pension of eight thousand rupees per month to every person who have served as a Member of the Assembly for any period exceeding five years"; (c) for the existing first proviso, the following shall be substituted, namely:-"Provided that a Member shall be eligible to receive the minimum quantum of pension on completion of the stipulated period to receive the same. However, any Member who has served or has completed the minimum stipulated period to be eligible for receiving the minimum pension shall be eligible to receive the maximum amount of Pension"; (d) in the second proviso, for the words "three thousand rupees", the words "six thousand rupees" shall be substituted. (6) In the Sikkim Legislative Assembly Members (Payment of Pension) Act, 1984, in sub-section (1) of section 3, (a) for the words "six thousand rupees" the words "ten thousand rupees" and for the words "eight thousand rupees" the words "thirteen thousand rupees" shall respectively be substituted; (b) in the second proviso, for the words "six thousand rupees" the words "ten thousand rupees" shall be substituted. In the Principal Act, in section 3, in sub-section (1),— (i) for the words "ten thousand", the words "fifteen thousand" shall be substituted; (ii) for the words "fifteen thousand", the words "twenty two thousand five hundred" shall be substituted.