SALARY, ALLOWANCES AND PENSION OF MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT ACT, 1954

S.1 Short title and commencement

       (1) This Act may be called the1(Salary, Allowances andPension] of Members of Parliament Act, 1954.
       (2) It shall come into force on the first day of June, 1954
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       1. Substituted for the words "Salaries and Allowances" by the Salaries and Allowances of Members of Parliament (Amendment) Act, 1976(105 of 1976), section 3 (9-9-1976).

S.2 Definitions

       - In this Act,-
       (a) "committee" means a Committee of either House of Parliament, and includes a Joint Committee of both Houses;
       1 [(aa) "dependent" means any of the following relatives of a deceased member, namely:--
       (i) a minor legitimate son, and an unmarried legitimate daughter and a widowed mother; or
       (ii) if wholly dependent on the earnings of the member at the time of his death, a son or a daughter who has attained the age of eighteen years and who is infirm; or
       (iii) if wholly or in part dependent on the earnings of the member at the time of his death,--
       (a) the parent; or
       (b) a minor brother or an unma

S.3 Salaries and daily allowances

       A member shall be entitled to receive 9[a salary at the rate of fifty thousand rupees per mensem] during the whole of his term of office 2[and subject to any rules made under this Act] 10[an allowance at the rate of two thousand rupees for each day] during any period of residence on duty.
       4[Provided that no member shall be entitled to the aforesaid allowance unless he signs the register,maintained for this purpose by the Secretariat of the House of the People or, as the case may be. Council of States, on all the days (except intervening holidays for which no such signing is required) of the session of the House for which the allowance is claimed.]
       11[Provided further that the rates of salary specified in this section shall be applicable from the 18th day of May, 2009.]

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S.4 Travelling allowances

       (1) There shall be paid to each member in respect of every journey performed by him 1[in India] for the purpose of attending a session of a House of Parliament or a meeting of a committee or for the purpose of attending to any other business connected with his duties as a member, from his usual place of residence to the place where the session or the meeting is to be held or the other business is to be transacted and for the return journey from such place to his usual" place of residence-
       (a) if the journey is performed by rail, an amount equal to 2[one first class fare] plus one 3[second class] fare for each such journey, irrespective of the class in which the member actually travels;
       (b) if the journey is performed by air, an amount equal to one and one-fourth of the air fare for each such journey:
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S.5 Travelling allowances for intermediate journeys

       1 [(1)] Where a member absents himself for less than fifteen days during a session of a House of Parliament or a sitting of a committee for visiting any place in India, he shall be entitled to receive travelling allowances in respect of such journey to such place and for the return journey-
       (a) if the journey is performed by rail, equal to 2 [one first class fare] for each such journey irrespective of the class in which the member actually travels;
       (b) 3 [if the journey, being a journey during the sitting of the Committee] is performed by air, equal to one fare by air, for each such journey :
       Provided that such travelling allowances shall not exceed the total amount of daily allowances which would have been admissible to such member under section 3-for the days of absence of he had not.so rem

S.5(A) Transit accommodation

       1[5A. Transit accommodation
       Where a person referred to in sub-section (4) of section 4 comes to Delhi, he shall be entitled to such transit accommodation for such period as may be specified by the rules made under clause (ccc) of sub-section (3) of section 9 by the Joint Committee.]
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       1.Inserted bySalary, Allowances and Pension of Members of Parliament (Amendment) Act, 2003 w.e.f. 09.01.2004

S.6 Free transit by railway

       (1) Every member shall be provided with one free non-transferable1 2 ["first class air-conditioned or executive class of any train"] pass which shall entitle him lo travel at any time by any railway in India.
       Explanation.-3[For the purposes of this sub-section and sections 6A and 6B], a member shall include a Minister as defined in the Salaries and Allowances of Ministers Act, 1952,44[a Leader of the Opposition as defined in the Salary and Allowances of Leader of Opposition in Parliament Act, 1977] and an officer of Parliament as defined in the Salaries and Allowances of Officers of Parliament Act 1953, other than the Chairman of the Council of States.
       (2) A free railway pass issued to a member under sub-section (1) shall be valid for the term of his office and on the expiration of such term, the pass shall be surrendered to the Secretar

S.6(A) Free transit by steamer

       (1)1[Without prejudice to the provisions of section 6-, every member representing the Union territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands or the Union territory of Lakshadweep shall-
       (a) be provided with one free non-transferable pass which shall entitle him to travel at any time by the highest class by steamer to and from any part of his constituency and any other part of his constituency or the nearest part in the main land of India: and
       (b) be entitled to an amount equal to the fare by air from his usual place of residence lo the nearest airport in the main land of India [and back];]
       Provided that nothing in this sub-section shall be construed as absolving the member from payment of any diet charges payable by him during such travel.
       (2) A free steame

S.6(a)(a) Special facility to members from Ladakh

(1) Without prejudice to the provisions of section 6-, every member who has his ordinary place of residence in the Ladakh area of the State of Jammu and Kashmir shall be entitled to an amount equal to the fare by air for each single journey by air performed by him from any airport in Ladakh to the airport in Delhi and back at any time.
(2) In addition to the air travel provided to a member under sub-section (1). he shall also be entitled to an amount equal to the fare by air for each single journey by air performed by the spouse, if any, of the member or one person to accompany such member, from any airport in Ladakh area to the airport in Delhi and back at any time.]

S.6(b) Travel facilities to members

       1[(1) Without prejudice to the other provisions of this Act, every member shall be entitled' to-
       (i) one free air-conditioned two-tier class railway pass for one person to accompany the member when he travels byrail; and
       (ii) free travel by any railway in India in first class air-conditioned or executive class in any train with the spouse, if any, of the member from any place in India to any other place in India and if such journey or part thereof is performed by air, from any place other than usual place of residence of the member, to Delhi and back, to an amount equal to the fare by air for such journey or part thereof or the amount equal to the journey performed by air from the usual place of the residence of the member to Delhi and back whichever is less.]
       Provided that where a Member has

S.6(c) Air travel facilities in certain circumstances

-Without prejudice to the other provisions of this Act, where during any part of a year the usual place of residence, of & member in his constituency is inaccessible to or, from any place outside his constituency by road. rail or steamer due to climatic conditions, but there is air service between any place in his constituency, and the nearest place having rail service, outside his constituency, such member shall be entitled to travel to, and, fro by air from the nearest place in his constituency where there is air service to such, place having rail service :
Provided that where the nearest place having air service is outside his constitutency, such member shall be entitled to travel to and fro by .air only from such place to the nearest place having rail service."]

S.6(d) Special facilities to blind and physically incapacitated Members

       1A member who is blind or who is, in the opinion of the Chairman of the Council of States or, as the case may be, the Speaker of the House of the People, so incapacitated physically as to require the facility of an attendant shall, with respect to each such journey-
       (i) by air as is referred to in clause (b) of sub-Section (1) of Section 4 or clause (b) of sub-Section(1) or sub-Section (2) of Section 5 or Section 6-C which he performs along with an attendant be entitled (in addition to the allowances which he is entitled under Section 4 or Section5 or, as the case may be Section 6-C) to an amount equal to one fare by air for such journey;
       (ii) by rail as is referred to in Section 4, Section 5, Section 6 or Section 6-B be allowed the facility of the one free railway pass for an attendants, to attend such member, in the same class in which

S.7 Allowances during short intervals between the termination of one session and the commencement of another session, etc.

       1[Where the intervals between the adjournment of a House of Parliament or, as the case may be, one sitting of a committee and the re-assembly .of that House or the next sitting of the Committee at the same place] does not exceed 2[five days] and the member concerned elects to remain at such place during the intervals, 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 a House of Parliament or a sitting of the committee, as the case may be, and the provisions of section 5-shall apply accordingly.
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        1.Substituted and deemed always to have been substituted for

S.8 Constituency allowance and amenities

A member shall be entitled to such constituency allowance 1 [office expense allowance.] and to such medical facilities for himself and for members of his family and to such housing, telephone, water, electricity facilities or such amount in cash in lieu of all or any of such facilities, as may be prescribed by rules under section 9]2 "Provided that where the House of the People is sooner dissolved before completing five years from the date appointed for its first meeting, the member of such House may be allowed without payment, to such extent of the quota of free telephone calls or free units of electricity or free units in kilolitres of water, available to him for a year in which such dissolution of such House takes place, as remains unutilised on the date of such dissolution, to avail during the period commencing on and from the date of such dissolution and ending on the date immediately preceding the date on which the noti

S.8(a) Pension

       6[(1) With effect from the 18th day of May, 2009, there shall be paid a pension of twenty thousand rupees per mensem to every person who has served for any period as a Member of the Provisional Parliament or either House of Parliament:
       Provided that where a person has served as a Member of the Provisional Parliament or either House of Parliament for a period exceeding five years, there shall be paid to him an additional pension of fifteen hundred rupees per mensem for every year served in excess of five years.
       Explanation.-- For the purpose of this sub-section, "Provisional Parliament" shall include the body which functioned as the Constituent Assembly of the Dominion of India immediately before the commencement of the Constitution.]
       (1A) With effect from the commencement of the Salary, Allowa

S.8(a)(a) Travel facility to ex-members

       2[(1)]1[Every person who is not a sitting Member but has served for any period as a Member of either House of Parliament shall be,-
       (a) with effect from the 18th day of January, 1999, entitled along with a companion to travel in any train by any railway in India in air-conditioned two-tier class; or
       (b) entitled to travel alone in any train by any railway in India in air-conditioned first class, without payment of any charges on the basis of an authorisation issued for this purpose by the Secretariat of either House of Parliament as the case may be.]
       3[(2) Every person who is not a sitting member but has served for any period as a member from the Andaman and Nicobar Islands or the Lakshadweep, shall be entitled to travel by the highest class of accommodation in any steamer sailing between the

S.8(a)(b) Rounding off period of pension

       1 [8AB. Rounding off period of pension
       Where the period for which the pension is payable under this Act contains a part of a year, then, if such part is nine months or more, it shall be reckoned equivalent to complete one year for the purpose of payment of additional pension under sub-section (1) of section 8A and if such part is less than nine months, it shall be ignored.]
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       1. Inserted by Salary, Allowances and Pension of Members of Parliament (Amendment) Act, 2003 w.e.f. 09.01.2004

S.8(a)(c) Family pension

       1[8AC. Family pension. - (1) On the death of a member of either House of Parliament during his term of office, his spouse, if any, or dependent of such member shall be paid during the remaining period of life of such spouse or, as the case may be, such dependent so long as such dependent continues to be a dependent within the meaning of clause (aa) of section 2, family pension equivalent to one-half of the pension which such member of Parliament would have received had he retired:
       Provided that no such family pension shall be payable to a dependent if such dependent is a sitting member of Parliament or is drawing pension under section 8A.
       (2) The family pension payable under sub-section (7) shall also be payable to the spouse or dependent of a person who was a member of either House of Parliament or the Provisional Parliament at any time

S.8(b) Advances for purchase of conveyance

       There may be paid to a member by way of are payable advance such sum of money not exceeding 2[four lakh rupees] as may be determined by rules made in this behalf under section 9-for the purchase of a conveyance.]

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       1. Substituted for "[fifty thousand rupees] ", vide The Salary, Allowances and Pension of Members of Parliament (Amendment) Act, 1998 (28 Of 1998), Dt. August 20,1998 Published in Received the assent of the President on August 20, 1998 and published in the Gazette of India, Extra., Part II, Section 1, dated 20th August, 1988. 1-3, No.43
       2. Substituted by the Salary, Allowances and Pension of Members of Parliament (Amendment) Act, 2010 (Act No. 37 of 2010) w.e.f. 01.10.2010 for the following : - "1[one lakh rupee

S.9 Power to make rules

       (1) For the purpose of making rules under this section, there shall be constituted a Joint Committee of both Houses of Parliament consisting of five members from the Council of States nominated by the Chairman and ten members from the House of the People nominated by the Speaker.
       (2) The Joint Committee constituted under sub-section ( I ) shall elect its Chairman and shall have power to regulate its procedure.
       1 [2A] A Member of the Joint Committee shall hold office as such member for one year from the date of his nomination and any casual vacancy in the Joint Committee may be filled by nomination by the Chairman of the Council of States or the Speaker of the House of the People, as the case may be.
       Explanation.- In the case of a Member of a Joint Committee holding office as such immediately b