The ASSAM SPEAKER'S AND DEPUTY SPEAKER'S SALARIES, ALLOWANCES AND AMENITIES ACT, 2018 (SINGLE DOCUMENT)
# ASSAM ACT NO. VIII OF 2018 (Received the assent of the Governor on 18th April, 2018)
 THE ASSAM SPEAKER'S AND DEPUTY SPEAKER'S SALARIES,
 ALLOWANCES AND AMENITIES ACT, 2018.


# AN


# ACT


**Preamble.**

**Short title and** **1.**
**commencement.**


to fix the salaries, allowances and amenities for Speaker and
Deputy Speaker of Assam Legislative Assembly.

WHEREAS it is expedient to fix afresh the salaries and
allowances of the Speaker and the Deputy Speaker of the Assam
Legislative Assembly in the manner hereinafter appearing;

It is hereby enacted in the Sixty-ninth Year of the Republic of
India as follows :
(1) This Act may be called the Assam Speaker's and Deputy

Speaker's Salaries, Allowances and Amenities Act, 2018.


(2) It shall be deemed to have come into force with effect from the

l[st] day of April, 2018.

**Definitions.** **2.** In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant to the subject or
context,
(a) "Speaker" and "Deputy Speaker" means the Speaker and the

Deputy Speaker of the Assam Legislative Assembly;


(b) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act.


**Salaries of the**
**Speaker and the**
**Deputy**
**Speaker.**


**3.** There shall be paid,
(a) to the Speaker a salary of rupees one lakh and twenty thousand

per mensem;


(b) to the Deputy Speaker a salary of rupees one lakh per
mensem.

**Allowances.** **4.** There shall be paid to the Speaker and the Deputy Speaker the
following allowances in connection with their duties :

(i) Parliamentary Assistance

Allowance

(ii) Sumptuary Allowance


: Rs. 20,000 per month


: Rs. 10,000 per month.


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(iii) Daily Allowance

While on tour and halt
within the State of Assam in
connection with performing
official duties.

While on tour and halt
outside the State of Assam in
connection with performing
official duties.

(iv) Sitting Allowance


: Rs. 1850 per day :


: Rs. 1850 per day


: Rs. 2500 per day


Provided that the Sitting Allowance shall not be admissible
if the Speaker or the Deputy Speaker as the case may be,
performs the official tour within the State of Assam or outside the
State of Assam and halts during the period of the Session of the
Assam Legislative Assembly.

**Travel facilities. 5.** Speaker and the Deputy Speaker shall be entitled to,
(a) while on tour for official purpose within the State of Assam

as well as outside the State, to travelling allowance as may
be prescribed;

(b) for journeys performed in connection with medical

treatment, to travelling allowance as may be prescribed.

**Amenities.** **6.** Speaker and Deputy Speaker shall be entitled to,
(a) free furnished residence at Guwahati throughout the year

which shall be maintained at public expenses;


(b) vehicles including vehicles for securities as may be

necessary for security of the Speaker and the Deputy Speaker
to be maintained at public expenses;


(c) personal staff as may be prescribed;


(d) newspapers and magazines as may be prescribed :


**Prohibition**
**against**
**practicing any**
**profession**
**during the**
**tenure of office**
**as Speaker or**
**Deputy**
**Speaker.**


Provided that the Speaker shall be entitled to the
privileges of using the free furnished residence, Government
vehicles and personal staff on his ceasing to hold office for
such period as may be prescribed.

**7.** The Speaker and the Deputy Speaker shall not, during the tenure
of their office in respect of which they draw salaries and
allowances, 
(a) practice any profession or engage in any trade or undertake

for remuneration any employment other than their duties as
Speaker and Deputy Speaker;

(b) be entitled to any salary or allowances as are admissible to

a Member of the Assam Legislative Assembly.

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**Power to make** **8.**
**rules.**


(1) The Speaker may, by notification in the Official Gazette,

constitute a Committee consisting of maximum ten Members
of the Assam Legislative Assembly which may make rules in
consultation with the State Government, for carrying out the
provisions of this Act.

(2) The Committee constituted under sub-section (1), shall elect

its Chairman and shall have power to regulate its own
procedure:

Provided that till the rules are made under this section
and come into force, the procedure as they existed prior to
commencement of this Act, shall be followed for the purpose
of determining the allowances, amenities and facilities which
were admissible to the Speaker and the Deputy Speaker prior
to commencement of this Act for which rules are required to
be prescribed under this Act.

(3) All rules made under this Act shall be laid before the Assam

Legislative Assembly, as soon as may be, after they are
made.


Assam Act
No.XXV
of 1958;
Assam Act
No. XVI of
1958


**Repeal of**
**Assam Act**
**No.XXV of**
**1958 and**
**Assam Act**
**No.XVI of 1958.**


**9.** The Assam Speaker's Salaries and Allowances Act, 1958 and the
Assam Deputy Speaker's Salaries and Allowances Act, 1958 are
hereby repealed.


**Savings.** **10.**


The repeal by this Act of the enactments mentioned in section 9
shall not affect the validity, invalidity, effect or consequences of
anything already done or suffered under the enactments so
repealed.

## S. M. BUZAR BARUAH, Commissioner & Secretary to the Government of Assam, Legislative Department, Dispur, Guwahati-6.

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