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The Tamil Nadu Payment of Salaries Act, 1951

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The Tamil Nadu Payment of Salaries Act, 1951 is an institutional state statute that establishes and regulates the salary, monthly allowances, residential accommodations, medical care, travel perks, and post-tenure pensions for public officials and elected representatives in Tamil Nadu. It applies to the Chief Minister, Ministers, Speaker, Deputy Speaker, Leader of the Opposition, Government Whips, Parliamentary Secretaries, sitting Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs), and former legislators. The Act ensures legal authorization and state control over public expenditure on executive and legislative functionaries. For ordinary citizens, it ensures public accountability by creating transparent statutory boundaries for legislative compensation and preventing unauthorized claims from the public treasury.

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  1. 1. Short title and extent
  2. 2. Definitions
  3. 3. Salaries and Allowances of Ministers
  4. 4. Salaries and Allowances of Speaker and Deputy Speaker
  5. 5. Omitted
  6. 6. Salaries, allowances of Parliamentary Secretary
  7. 6-A. Salaries and allowances of Leader of the Opposition and Chief Government Whip
  8. 6-B. Houses to be furnished and maintained at the cost of Government in certain cases
  9. 7. Conveyance to be provided for Ministers the Speaker, the Deputy Speaker, etc.
  10. 8. Travelling Allowance of Ministers etc., for assuming and relinquishing office.
  11. 9. Travelling and Daily Allowance of Ministers, etc.
  12. 9-A. Salaries and Allowances of Deputy Speaker or Member of Legislative Assembly while performing duties of Speaker.
  13. 9-B. Omitted
  14. 10. Ministers, Speaker or Deputy Speaker and his family be entitled to free accommodation in State hospitals and to free medical treatment.
  15. 11. Omitted
  16. 12. Salaries and allowances of Members of Legislative Assembly.
  17. 12-D. Railway fare for former Members
  18. 12-E. Hostel accommodation to former Members
  19. 13. Relinquishment of salaries and Allowances and cancellation thereof
  20. 13-A. Section 13-A
  21. 14. Power of State Government to make rules
  22. 15. Saving
  23. 16. Regularisation of certain charges and payments
  24. 17. Repeal of Tamil Nadu Act IX of 1937
  25. 112-A. Transit by Railway Allowance
  26. 112-B. Pension
  27. 112-C. Free bus pass to former Members

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