Salaries and Allowances of Speaker and Deputy Speaker

(1) There shall be paid to the Speaker a salary of Rs. 30,000 per mensem and, subject to such maximum limit, as may be prescribed, a house rent of such sum per mensem as the Public Works Department of the State Government may, from time to time, fix with reference to the prevailing rate of rent for the house the Speaker occupies in the City of Chennai; but the house rent shall not be paid to the Speaker if he occupies a house provided by the State Government free of rent. (2) There shall be paid to the Deputy Speaker a salary of Rs. 30,000 per mensem and, subject to such maximum limit as may be prescribed, a house rent of such sum per mensem as the Public Works Department of the State Government may, from time to time, fix with reference to the prevailing rate of rent for the house the Deputy Speaker occupies in the City of Chennai; but the house rent shall not be paid to the Deputy Speaker if he occupies a house provided by the State Government free of rent. (3) There shall be paid to the Speaker and Deputy Speaker, a compensatory allowance of Rs. 15,000 per mensem. (4)(a) There shall be paid to the Speaker,— (i) a contingency allowance of Rs. 10,000 per mensem; and (ii) a constituency allowance of Rs. 25,000 per mensem. (b) There shall be paid to the Deputy Speaker:— (i) a contingency allowance of Rs. 7,500 per mensem; and (ii) a constituency allowance of Rs. 25,000 per mensem. (4) Subject to such conditions and during such period as may be determined by rules made by the State Government:— (a) every Member referred to in sub-section (1) and members of his family; (b) every person who had been a Member of the Legislative Assembly or of the Legislative council or of both, but ceased to be such Member at any time and members of his family; and (c) the members of the family of the deceased Member of the Legislative Assembly or of the Legislative Council or of both; shall be entitled free of charge to accommodation in the hospitals maintained by the State Government and also to medical treatment. Proviso - Omitted.