State Act

Tamil Nadu Payment of Salaries Act

4. (1) There shall be paid to the Speaker a salary of 2Thirty thousand rupees per mensem 1and, subject to such maximum limit, as may be prescribed, a house rent of such sum per mensem as the Public Works Department of the State Government may, from time to time, fix with reference to the prevailing rate of rent for the house the Speaker occupies in the City of Chennai; but the house rent shall not be paid to the Speaker if he occupies a house provided by the State Government free of rent. 1(2) There shall be paid to the Deputy Speaker a salary of 2Thirty thousand rupees per mensem 3and, subject to such maximum limit as may be prescribed, a house rent of such sum per mensem as the Public Works Department of the State Government may, from time to time, fix with reference to the prevailing rate of rent for the house the Deputy Speaker occupies in the City of Chennai; but the house rent shall not be paid to the Deputy Speaker if he occupies a house provided by the State Government free of rent. 4(3) There shall be paid to the Speaker and Deputy Speaker, a compensatory allowance of 2Fifteen thousand rupees per mensem. 2(4)(a) There shall be paid to the Speaker,— (i) a contingency allowance of 2Ten thousand rupees per mensem; and (ii) a constituency allowance of 6Twenty five thousand rupees per mensem. (b) There shall be paid to the Deputy Speaker:— (i) a contingency allowance of 6Seven thousand and five hundred rupees per mensem; and (ii) a constituency allowance of 6Twenty five thousand rupees per mensem.