Uttarakhand State Legislative Assembly Miscellaneous (Amendment ) Act 2024 Amendment of Section 3, 4A, 5, 11, 12, 12A, 15, 17 and 20

(1) This Act may be called the Uttarakhand State Legislative Assembly Miscellaneous (Amendment) Act, 2024; (2) It shall be deemed to have come into force from April 01, 2022.

In sub-section (1) of section 3 of the Uttarakhand State Legislative Assembly (Members Emoluments and Pension) Act, 2008 (hereinafter referred to as principal Act), for the words "thirty thousand, the words "fifty thousand" shall be substituted.

In section 4A of the principal Act, for the words "twelve thousand", the words "twenty thousand" shall be substituted.

In section 5 of the principal Act-(a) for sub section (1), the following sub-section shall be substituted:-"(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, every member of Assembly, whether or not he holds any office referred to in clause (f) of section 2, shall be given Railway coupon of Rs. forty thousand per year and Rs. thirty thousand cash per month for diesel/petrol expenditure, in the prescribed manner from the total amount of Railway coupon of four lac, which may be used by the such member for himself and for the members of his family for travel by any train, any class."(b) in sub-section (2)-(i) for the words "two lac seventy two thousand", the words "three lac" shall be substituted.(ii) for the words "seventy two thousand rupees", the words "twenty thousand five hundred rupees per month" shall be substituted.(iii) for the words "twenty eight thousand", the words "thirty thousand" shall be substituted.

In sub-section (1) of section 11 of the principal Act, for the words "three thousand" the words "six thousand" shall be inserted.

In section 12 of the principal Act, for the words "twelve thousand", the words "twenty thousand" shall be substituted.

After section 12 of the principal Act, the following section shall be inserted, namely- "12A. Every member of the Assembly, whether or not he holds any office referred to in clause (f) of Section 2, which includes the Leader of Opposition, during the period of membership or as the case may be, the whole period, during which he holds such post, shall be entitled to receive Rupees fifteen thousand per month as attendant allowance."

In section 15 of the principal Act, the following section shall be substituted; namely- "The State Government may provide for grant of a advance loan to any member, for any purpose, whether or not he holds any office referred to in clause (f) of section 2, which includes Leader of Opposition not exceeding rupees twenty five lac on the applicable interest rate of GPF: Provided that the amount of advance loan shall be received back in equal monthly installments, of ten years.

For section 17 of the principal Act, the following section shall be substituted, namely- "Every member or former member of the Assembly whether or not he holds any office referred in clause (f) of section 2, facility for treatment of self and family members abroad shall be permissible if referred by All India Institute of Medical Sciences and the cashless treatment facility (Golden Card) applicable to the personnel of the Uttarakhand State, shall be applicable to the members and it shall include the major hospitals of the State, Fortis of Delhi and Rajiv Gandhi Cancer Institute and Research Center Delhi and AIIMS, Delhi or the medical expenses shall be reimbursed."

In section 20 of the principal Act, in the first proviso, for the words "two thousand" the words "two thousand five hundred" shall be substituted.

In sub-section (1) of section 2 of the Uttar Pradesh State Legislature (Officers' Salaries and Allowances) Act, 1952, in the context of Uttarakhand State, in the monthly salary of Speaker and Deputy Speaker, for the words "one lac ten thousand" the words "one lac fifty thousand" shall be substituted.

In sub-section (1) of section 3 of the Uttarakhand Ministers (Salaries, Allowances and Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 2009, for the words "ninety thousand" the words "one lac twenty thousand" shall be substituted.