Uttarakhand State Legislative Assembly (Members’ Emoluments and Pension) (Amendment) Act, 2025

(1) This Act may be called the Uttarakhand State Legislative Assembly (Members' Emoluments and Pension) (Amendment) Act, 2025. (2) It shall be deemed to have come into force from April 01, 2022.

In section 5 of the Uttarakhand State Legislative Assembly (Members' Emoluments and Pension) Act, 2008, (hereinafter referred to as principal Act), - (i) in sub-section (I), the following proviso shall be inserted, namely:- "Provided that at the end of the year every member of the Assembly shall be entitled to receive balance amount in cash out of the amount of railway coupon amounting forty thousand rupees after availing the railway coupon." (ii) in sub-section (2),- (a) for the words "three lac", the words "three lac forty thousand" shall be substituted. (b) for the words "twenty two thousand five hundred rupees per month", the words "twenty six thousand rupees per month" shall be substituted. (c) for the words "twenty thousand", the words "twenty eight thousand" shall be substituted. (d) after the second proviso, the following proviso shall be inserted, namely:- "Provided also that at the end of the year ex-member shall be entitled to receive balance amount in cash out of the amount of railway coupon amounting twenty eight thousand rupees after availing the railway coupon."

For section 15 of the principal Act, the following section shall be substituted; namely. "15. The State Government may provide for grant of a advance loan, not exceeding rupees twenty five lac at the applicable interest rate of G.P.F., for any purpose, to any member whether or not he holds any office referred to in clause (c) of section 2, or has held any office as member of House which includes Leader of opposition: Provided that the amount of advance loan shall be repaid in equal monthly instalments of ten years."

In section 20 of the principal Act- (i) in sub section (I), for the words "forty thousand rupees" the words "sixty thousand rupees" shall be substituted. (ii) in the first proviso, for the words "two thousand five hundred rupees" the words "three thousand rupees" shall be substituted.

In Sub-section (2) of section 11 of the principal Act, for the words "two thousand rupees" the words "four thousand five hundred rupees" shall be substituted.