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THE SALARIES AND ALLOWANCES OF MEMBERS OF

THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY (PONDICHERRY)

ACT, 1964.
(Act No. 16 of 1964)

6th February, 1965.

AN ACT

to provide lor the salaries and allowances of illembers of the

Legislative Assembly of Pondicherry.

BE it enacted by the I egislative Assembly of Pondicherry

in the Fifteenth Year of the Republic of India as follows :1. Short title.-This Act may be called the Salaries and
Allou~ances of Members of the
Legislative
Assembi:~
(Pondicherry) Act, 1964.
2. Definitions.-In

this Act, unless the context otherwise

(a) "Act" means the Governmest of Union territories Act,

1963 (20 of 1963) ;
(b) "Assembly"
Pondicherry ;

means the Legislative Assembly of

Cc) -%ompittee" means

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a Committee of the Assembly:

(d) "Controlling Officer" means thC

Assembly ;

Secretary to

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(e) "Day" means a period of 24 hours beginning at mid,

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'[(ee), "family? in relation to a Member, means the wife

. or husb,and, as the case may,be of sue$ Member, if such wife
. or husband is residing with such Member, and includes the
legitimate children cir step-children residing with, and wholly
- dependent on, such Member but does not include, in the case
of a male Member, more than one wife ;] ;
(f) "Formt means a form

schedule
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appended to

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(g) "Member" means a

ember of the Assembly but save

as btherwise expressly provided in this Act does not include.-(i) A Minister as defined in the Salaries and Allowances
of Ministers (Pondicherry) Act, 1964 and
(ii) the Speaker and Deputy Speaker as defined in the
Salaries and Allowances of Speaker and Deputy Speaker
(Pondicherry) Act, 1964 ;
(h) "New Member" means a Member who takes his seat in
the Assembly after the commencement of this Act and includes
a Member who is re-elected or renominated ;
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of residence on duty" means the period during

which a Member resides at a place where a session of the
Assembly or a sitting of a Committee is held or where any
: other business connected with his duties as such Member is
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-'tran&eted, for th&'purp&~'ofattend28 to such other business.
, and inclddes, Gxcept in the case of 'a Memtjkr who ordinarily
resides in the commune where a session of the Assembly or a
sitting of the Committee is held or where any other business
connected with his duties as such Member is transacted :. (i) "Period

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sine die or for a period e x c a i n g sevefi-day$; ^ah&= I..-,
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(id in the cask of a siiting of cbmmittee or any
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the conclusion of the business of the Committee or other
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shall be entitled to ~weivqa qalq at the rate gf mwes
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allowance

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hd&ri;ber~QP-eachday 'of iesidkce on duty irrespective of the

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one hundred per mensem.].

4, Travelling: allowances.-(1)

There shall be paid travelling

allowance to each member in respect of every jouriley performed
by> : trim ,_for
thp: -purpose,
of - attending a session of the Assembly
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with 5dhiaistr8t'itm of th'e Union t e r r i t o e of ILoriaicge
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anlobnt of travelling allowafi&

dl-awn by such Member for the entire journey shallonbt excM
the amount which would have been admissible to him, had he
performed such journey by rail or steamer, as the case may be.
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[(3) A Member shall be entitled to an advance, of travelling

allowance in respect of any journey to be performed

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connection with his duties as a Member, to a place outside the
Pondicherry region of the Union territory of Pondicherry and
the return journey therefrom, on the same terms and conditions
as are applicable to the grant of an advance to a First Grade
Officer, referred to in sub-section (I), in respect of j~urneyson
tour :
Provided that where, during the journey aforesaid, such
Member performs a journey to a place within the mndidherry
region of the Union territory of ~ o n d i c h e r rfor
~ attending to
any other business connected with his duties as a ~ e m & e rno
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advance of travelling allowance shall be admissible to su-ch',
Member in respect of the journey to a ' p l i e e within the
Pondicherry region and the return journey therefrom.].
5. TraveIling allowance for intermediate journeys.-Where
a hlember absents himself for less than seven days during a
session of the Assembly or a sitting of a Committee for visiting
any place in the Union territory of Pondicherry h e shall be
entitled to receive travelling allowance in: respect of such. 1
journey to such place ang for the,; return j ~ w n e p*under;:
section 4 :
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Provided that such travelling allowance shall not exceed &e

total amount of daily allowance which would have been adm(ssible to such Member under section 3 for the-days of absence
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8. Allowadces during short int&af& between the terminad

{ion of one session and the commencelnent of another session.
etc.--Where the interval between the adjournment of the
Assembly or, as the case may be, one sitting of a Committee
and the re-assembly of the Assembly or the next sitting of the
Committee at the same place does not exceed three days and
the Member concerned elects to-remain at such place during
the interval, he shall be entitled to draw for each day of
residence at such place a daily allowance at the rate specified
in section 3 :

Provided that if the Member leaves such place during the

interval, his absence from the place shall be treated as absence
during a session of the Assembly or a sitting of the Committee,
as the case may be, and the provisions of section 5 shall appiy
accordingly.
7. Special provisions.-In
the special circumstances specified in the First Schedule, this Act shall apply subject to the
provisions of that Schedule.
8. Procedures.-The provisions of the Second Schedule shall
apply in respect of claims for salary and allowances.

9. Medical treatment etc., to members.-A Member '[ and

every member of his family] shall be entitled fr&' of 'charge to
accommodation in hospitals maintained by the ~ o v e r n i n e n ~ ~ ' & d
also to medical treatment in accorda~~cewith the Medical
.Attendance Rules, as amended from time to time, applicable to
Class I Officers serving in connection with the administration of
the Union territory.
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f travelling allowance where a M e b e r

journey.-No
travelling allowance under section 4 shall be
claimed by a Member in respect of any journey or part thereof
performed by him in a conveyance provided at the expense of
the Government, or a Local Fund, but he shall be entitled to
draw an allowance at the rate of Rs. 3 only per diem where the
duration of such journey lasts for not less than six hours on

Proyided that the provisions of this paragraph

apply to a journey performed on any railway.

shall not

Note: The amount of R3. 3 is granted to the Members to

cover his incidental expenses during such journey or part thereof and is in lieu of the.. extra road mileage when he peiforms
the journey by a conveyance supplied without ckiarge:
This
allowance is not an aiternatire to the daily' allowance admissible under section 3 per diem which is allowed to him where
admissible for each day of residence ori duty; ..
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2. Admissibility of travelling sllowances where the place

fr,om which ,a Membex. performs his journey or to which he

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the _Assembly or a meeting of a Committee or for the purpose'
of attending to any other business connected with his duties as
a nlelnber from a place other than his usual place of residence'
or returns to such a place, he may draw travelling allowance
for the actual journey performed or the journey from or b his, ' usual place of residgnce; whidevkr is less: : .~
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(2)- Where-duiGng a' se'ssiori of-the-kssernbipo~-ki~itdh^g..ok

a- Cophittek;~ar-Member pkrforms at jodrrieyl'). &rs& $hiebp3;re@e

v~heresue& session-or. sitting id'held-26l"aiCy1~bt~e~
pl%k&r&3j?~
the purpose of attihding ti, .any bu$?ne~s-cohlieEtedi +it"h? 'his ;
duties as a Member he shall be entitled to receive~5
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(a) 'tra-vell$g allowance

i,n respect ~f such journey to
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Member
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nominated, he shall be entitled to receive.travelling allowance
for ,?.he journey performed by him for, the purpose of taking his.
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travpl-$,
.,.ling or daiiFallowance will be admissible-The period of absence
of a Member shall be reckoned in terps of days beginning and
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paragraph does not include the period of three days immediately

preceding the commencement of and three days immediately

succeeding the end of the sessicn 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 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
ihe provisions of section 5 shall apply accordingly.

(5) Travelling allowance for a return journey to the

usual place of residence shall be admissible to a Member who
leaves the place of a session of the Assembly or a sitting of a
Committee during the continuance of such session or sitting and
returns to the place of the session or sitting after the conclusion
of the business of the session or the sitting, as the case may be,
before finally returning t s his usual place of residence.

(6) All cases regarding the admissibility

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allowance to a Member who arrives at the place where n 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 ol 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
each case.

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a Member is
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~ ta Local Fund, he
shall be entitled tb receive only one-half of the daily allowance
admissible to him under section 3. 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.
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SECOND SCHEDULE
(See section 8)

Procedural previsien~:-(1) Every Member shall, as soon as

possible after he is elected or nominated, declare his usual place
of residence 'to the Controlling Officer, and any subsequent
change in the usual place of residence so declared shall be
notified to the Contralling Officer in Form A as early as possible
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(2) A Member who claims any travelling or other allowances under this Act, shall support his claim by a Certificate in
the followi~igform :

"Certified that no travelling allowance in respect of the

journey or daily alfowance for the period mentioned in this bill
has been or will be claimed from any other official source."

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no part of the journey is **rf~rmbd'bjr a con-

veyance provided at the expense of the Government or a Loeal

Fund, the following certificate shall be furnished, namely :-"Certified that I have not performed any part of the
journey by a conveyance pr~videdat the expense of the
Government or a Local Fund.".

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services rendered to him in the course of his duties as a
Member such as whes fir; i.?b;;ioli>.'wi#"aommittee, and the
arrangements for such sepiqes
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FORM B
Departure and return journey certificate

(The Certificate may kindly be filled in, signed and returned to

the Secretary, Legislative Assembly, as soon as possible, after
compl&ion of the return journey.)

1. Certified that I performed the return journey under

section 4 of the Salaries and Allowa'nces of Members of the
L,egis'iativeAssembly (Pondicherry) Act, 1964 leaving
(place)
on the
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I arrived at
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2. Certified that I have not performed any part of journey

(other than the railway journey) by a conveyance provided at
Che expense of the Government or a Local Fund.
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by day;lnight service.

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Payment of the s-upplementary bill is required at

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Station :
Date :

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Member of the Legislative

CLssembly