First Schedule

(See section 9) 1. Admissibility of travelling allowance where a member is provided with free transport for the whole or any part of the journey.--- No travelling allowance under section 5 of this Act shall be admissible to a member in respect of any journey or part thereof performed by him in a conveyance provided at the expenses of Government or a local fund, but he shall be entitled to draw allowance at the rate of [rupees ten] only per diem where the duration of such journey lasts for not less than six hours on any day : Provided that the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to the journey performed on any railway. Note -The amount of rupees three is granted to the member to cover his incidental expenses during such journey or part thereof and is in lieu of the extra road mileage when he performs the journey by a conveyance supplied without charge. This allowance is not alternative to the [daily allowance as admissible under section 3 of this Act], which is allowed to him where admissible for each day during any period of residence on duty. 2. Admissibility of travelling allowance where the place, from which a member performs his journey or to which he returns, is not his usual place of residence :- (1) Where a member performs a journey for the purpose of attending a session of the Assembly or a sitting of a committee or for the purpose of attending to any other business connected with his duties as a member from a place other than his usual place of residence or returns such a place he may draw travelling allowance for the actual journey performed or the journey from or to his usual place of residence whatever is less. (2) Where during a session of the Assembly or a sitting of a committee, a member performs a journey from the place where such session or sitting is held to any other place for the purpose of attending to any business connected with his duties as a member, he shall be entitled to receive--- (a) travelling allowance in respect of such journey to such other place and return journey at the rates specified in section 5 of this Act, and (b) daily allowance for each day during any period of a residence on duty at the other place at the rates specified in section 3 of this Act. 3. Regulation of the payment of daily and travelling allowances under this Act.--- (1) Notwithstanding that a member has not taken his seat in the Assembly to which he is elected or nominated, he shall be entitled to receive travelling allowances for the journey performed by him for the purpose of taking his seat in the Assembly. (2) For absence for a period of seven days or more during a session of the Assembly or a sitting of committee for visiting any place in the State of Tripura, no travelling or daily allowance shall be admissible. The period of absence of a member shall be reckoned in terms of days beginning and ending at midnight. Explanation - If a member comes back on the seventh day whether in the forenoon or in the afternoon his absence shall be treated as being less than seven days. (3) The term "during a session" or a "sitting of a committee" occurring in section 6 of this Act and in sub-paragraph (2) of this paragraph does not include the period of three days immediately preceding the commencement of and three days immediately succeeding the end of the session or two days immediately preceding the commencement of the business, and two days immediately succeeding the conclusion of the business of the committee. (4) If a member leaves the place where the session of the Assembly or a sitting of a committee is held before the commencement of the interval between the adjournment of the session or the sitting of the committee sine die and the commencement of another session or sitting, such interval not exceeding a period of three days, his absence from that place shall be treated as intermediate absence during a session of the Assembly or a sitting of a committee, as the case may be, and the provisions of section 6 of this Act shall apply accordingly. (5) Travelling allowance for a return journey to usual place of residence shall be admissible to a member who leaves the place of session of the Assembly or a sitting of a committee during the continuance of such session or sitting and return to the place of session or sitting within three days after the conclusion of the business of the session or the sitting, as the case may be, before finally returning to his usual place of residence . (6) All cases regarding the admissibility of travelling allowances to a member who arrives at the place where a session of the Assembly or a sitting of a committee is held without knowledge of the postponement of the session or the sitting including cases of such members who arrive after the session or a sitting is adjourned suddenly shall be determined by the Speaker of the Assembly having regard to the circumstances of such case . (7) Where a member is provided with free board and lodging at the expense of the Government or a Local Fund, he shall be entitled to receive only one-half of the daily allowance admissible to him under section 3 of this Act. If only boarding or lodging is allowed free to the member, he shall be entitled to receive three-fourths of the daily allowance admissible to him under that section .