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The Prime Minister's Salary, Allowances and Privileges Act, 1975

1Act No. LIX of 1975

[23rd July, 1975]

An Act to determine the salary, allowances and privileges of the Prime Minister.

WHEREAS it is expedient to determine the salary, allowances and privileges of the Prime Minister and to make provision for enabling him to discharge conveniently and with dignity the duties of his office;

It is hereby enacted as follows:---

1.Short title and commencement.—(1) This Act may be called the Prime Minister's Salary, Allowances and Privileges Act, 1975.

(2) It shall come into force at once and shall be deemed to have taken effect on the fourteenth day of August, 1973.

2. Definition. In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the
subject or context,---

(a) ”family” means the Prime Minister's 2[spouse] and such of his children and step-children as ordinarily reside with and are wholly dependent upon him;

(b) ”furnishings” means pictures, paintings, curios, linen, glass-ware, brass-ware, cutlery, crockery, kitchen, equipment, radios, radiograms, lamps, public address systems, projectors, television sets of all kinds, accoustical equipment and similar other articles;

(c) ”furniture” includes carpets, sofa covers, curtains, refrigerators, airconditioners, washing machines and similar other articles;

(d) ”Government” means the Federal Government;

(e) ”maintenance”,---

(i) in relation to official residence, includes the maintenance and replenishing of furniture and furnishings, payment of local rates and taxes, maintenance of roads and electric, water, gas and sanitary fixtures and installations, and the .provision of electricity, gas and water;

1For Statement of Objects and Reasons, see Gaz. of P., 1975, Ext., Pt. III, p.591.

2Subs. by the Finance Act, 1996 (9 of 1996) s. 9, for “wife”.

(ii) in relation to rivercraft, includes.expenditure on the pay of the establishment maintained in connection therewith, and on their victualling while afloat, and expenditure on the purchase of marinestores; and

(iii) in relation to official cars and aircraft, includes the pay and allowances of chauffeurs, pilots and other establishment and the provision of oil and petrol;

(f) ”official cars”, “railway saloons”, “rivercraft” and “aircraft” mean such cars, railway saloons, rivercraft and aircraft, if any, as are from time to time provided for use by the Prime Minister;

(g) ”official residence” means the house specified in the First Schedule and such other premises in Pakistan as the Prime Minister may use as his official residence, and includes the staff quarters and other buildings appurtenant thereto and the gardens thereof;

(h) ”prescribed” means prescribed by rules to be made by the government;

(i) ”year” means a year commencing on the first day of July and ending on the thirtieth day of June next following; and

(j) other words and expressions used in this Act and not defined shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan or the Fundamental and Supplementary Rules.

*3. Salary. The salary to be paid to the Prime Minister shall be 1[fifty six thousand] rupees per mensem.

*The salary, allowances and privileges of the Prime Minister shall, with effect from 1st July, 1985, be as follows:---

1.

Salary

Rs. 8,000 per anum.

 

2.

Equipment allowance

Rs. 15,000

(on 1st appointment.)

 

3.

Exemption from Customs duties and sales tax:

(a) Articles for personal use of value not exceeding.

(b) Car for personal use of value not exceeding.

Rs. 10,000 per annum.

Rs. 400,000 during entire tenure

 

4.

Sumptuary allowance

RS. 400,000

per annum

Under Second Schedule of the Act.

5.

Contract allowance (including maintenance of garden).

Rs. 12,00,000 per annum

6.

Discretionary grant.

Rs. 800,000 per annum.

Please see Cabinet Division’s Instruction No. 102/26/85-Min.I, dated the 30 June, 1985.

1Subs. by Ord.XXI of 02, s.2.

4. Equipment allowance. The Prime Minister may, on his assumption of office as such, draw 1[twenty thousand] rupees as an allowance for equipping himself:---

Provided that, during the ten years immediately preceding the assumption of that office he had not drawn an allowance for the same purpose upon election or appointment to the office of President, Prime Minister, Chairman, Speaker, Federal Minister, Governor or Minister of State or a diplomatic office.

5. Allowance on taking up and laying down the office.— (1) The Prime Minister shall be entitled to claim actual expenses to the extent mentioned below for the journey from his ordinary place of residence to the seat of Government on taking up office and from the seat of Government to his ordinary place of residence on laying down office:---

(a) the actual travelling expenses for himself and his family;

(b) the cost of transporting personal servants, not ex­ceeding three, by the lowest class of accommodation; and

(c) the cost of transporting household effects, not exceeding one hundred and twenty maunds, by goods train, steamer or other craft, excluding aircraft, and his personal car, if any.

(2) No claim shall lie for any travel or transportation not performed within six months of the date of assuming or laying down office, as the case may be.

6. Official residence, railway saloons, rivercraft, aircraft and official cars.—(1) Throughout his term of office, the Prime Minister shall be entitled without payment of rent or hire to the use of his official residence, and of the railway saloons, rivercraft, aircraft and official cars, and no charge shall fall on him personally in respect of the maintenance thereof:---

Provided, that the Prime Minister shall not, except when proceeding on or returning from leave, be entitled to the use of railway saloons, rivercraft, aircraft or official cars during any period for which he is on leave.

(2) The provisions of sub-section (1) shall also apply to the family of the Prime Minister.

(3) The Prime Minister may requisition a special railway train for journeys on official duty.

7. Discretionary grant, sumptuary allowance and other allowances. There shall be paid in each year to the Prime Minister—

(a) an allowance for expenses connected with the pur­poses specified in the Second Schedule, not exceeding the maximum amounts specified in that Schedule:---

1Subs, by the Finance Act. 1996 (9 of 1996) s. 9. for “five thousand”.

Provided that the Prime Minister may, without exceeding the maximum specified in column 7 of the aforesaid Schedule, reappropriate, whenever necessary, from one sub-head in that Schedule to any other sub-head therein except to or from the sub-heads relating to discretionary grant and sumptuary allowance;

(b) an allowance for expenses connected with improve­ments in and maintenance of the official residence and maintenance of the furniture and furnishings thereof, not exceeding the maximum amounts specified in the Third Schedule:---

Provided that the Prime Minister may, without exceeding the maximum specified in column 5 of the aforesaid Schedule, reappropriate, whenever necessary from one Sub-head in that Schedule to another sub­head therein 1[;]

2[(c) the actual charges for electricity and gas consump­tion.]

8. Payment of further amounts. There shall be paid from time to time to the Prime Minis­ter such further amounts necessary to enable him to discharge conveniently and with dignity the duties of his office as the Prime Minister may by general or special order authorize, and any such order may be given retrospective effect whenever necessary.

9. Payment on account of deferred pay, etc. of officers. Nothing in this Act shall, apply to any payment on account of the deferred pay, leave salaries, allowances, cost of passage or increments due to any officer provision for whose pay is made in the Second Schedule, and the amounts of such payment shall be in addition to the maximum amounts specified in that Schedule.

10. Amounts to be included in estimates of expenditure. The Prime Minister may, subject to any general or special order made by him, include the amounts in any year in the estimates of expenditure for the purpose of giving effect or the provisions of this Act, and such amounts shall be charged upon and paid out of the Federal Consolidated Fund.

11. Compensation in case of air accident.- (1) If the Prime Minister, while travelling by air on official duty, by any flight scheduled or un-scheduled (including flight in a Government-owned aircraft of any type), dies or receives an injury as a result of an accident, the Government shall pay to the person or persons referred to in sub-section (2) a sum of 3[one million] rupees in the case of death, and an amount to be determined by the Government having regard to scales of compensation applied by insurance companies in like cases, in the case of an injury.

(2) The compensation shall be payable, in the case of injury, to the Prime Minister, and, in the case of death, to such member or members of his family, or, if there be no such member, such other person or persons as may be nominated, by him, and in the absence of such nomination to his heirs.

1Subs, by the Finance Act, 1996 (9 of 1996) s. 9, for full-stop.

2New clause (c) added ibid., s. 9.

3Subs. by the Finance Act, 1996 (9 of 1996) s. 9. for “two lakh and fifty thousand”.

(3) A nomination under sub-section (2) may be made, and may also be revoked or altered, by a notice in writing signed by the Prime Minister and addressed to the Accountant General, Pakistan Revenues.

12. Leave.— (1) The Prime Minister may avail himself of leave of absence during his term of office, at any one time or from time to time, for urgent reasons of health or private affairs, for a period not exceeding three months in the aggregate.

(2) The leave allowance of the Prime Minister shall be 1[fifty six thousand] rupees per mensem.

13. Medical facilities. The Prime Minister and the family of the Prime Minister shall be entitled to medical facilities in accordance with the Special Medical Attendance Rules:

Provided that he and his family shall ordinarily be entitled to receive medical treatment at his residence:

Provided further that the Prime Minister may, if so advised by his physician, receive medical' treatment abroad or consult a foreigner or a physician other than his own and receive such other treatment as may be prescribed.

14. Customs duties or sales tax not leviable on certain articles.—(1) No custom-duties or sales tax shall be levied on the following articles if imported or purchased out of bond by the Prime Minister on appointment or during his tenure of office, namely:---

(a) articles for the personal use, wear or consumption of the Prime Minister or any member of his family provided that the cost of such articles shall not exceed 2[two hundred thousand] rupees per annum;

3* * * * * * *

(c) foodstuffs and tobacco for the Prime Minister, members of his family and his guests, whether official or not;

(d) articles for furnishing of the Prime Minister's official residence; and

(e) official cars, rivercraft, or aircraft.

(2) No custom-duties or sales tax shall be levied on tobacco imported by manufacturers in Pakistan for the manufacture of cigarettes, and no excise duty shall be levied on indigenous tobacco used in Pakistan in the manufacture of cigarettes and on cigarettes manufactured in Pakistan, when such cigarettes are for consumption by the Prime Minister, members of his family) or the guests referred to in clause (c) of sub-section (1).

(3) No excise duty shall be levied on indigenous petrol and petroleum products when such petrol or petroleum products are for use in the official cars, rivercraft and aircraft.

1Subs. by Ord. XXI of 02, s.3.

2Subs. by the Finance Act, I996 (9 of 1996) s. 9. for “fifty thousand”.

3Clause (b) omitted by the Prime Minister's Salary, Allowances and Privileges (Amdt.) Act 1997, (30 of 1997) s. 2, which was previously

15. Provident Fund. The Prime Minister may, at his option, become a subs­criber to the General Provident Fund and, if he so opts, he shall subscribe to the Fund as a compulsory subscriber in accordance with the General Provident Fund (Central Services) Rules.

16. Act to have effect subject to instructions etc. This Act shall have effect subject to such instructions, rules, exceptions, further concessions or easements as the Govern­ment may from time to time prescribe or grant.

116A. Increase in Emoluments. The salary, allowances and privileges of the Prime Minister shall automatically be revised along with the revision of the emoluments of the civil servants.]

2[17. Security. Every person who has held the office of the Prime Minister under Clause (4) of Article 91 of the Constitution shall be entitled for life to the suitable security, which the Federal Government shall, by notification in official Gazette, specify and make the required arrangements including services of personnel, vehicle or vehicles and allied matters.]

FIRST SCHEDULE

(See section 2(g)]

OFFICIAL RESIDENCE

3[The Prime Minister's House, Islamabad]

1New section I6A ins. by Act 9 of 1996, s. 9.

2Added by Act XVII of 2012, s.7, dated 1-7-2012.

3Subs. ibid., s. 9 for “The Prime Minister's House, Rawalpindi.” .

SECOND SCHEDULE

[See section 7(a)]

Discre-

tionary

Grant

Sumptuary

Allowance

Staff

including

other

charges

Contract

Allowance

Official

conveyance

including

motor cars

and their

replacement

Tour Total

expenses

Total

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

Rs.

1[1,000,000

Rs.

600,000

Rs.

2,2500,000

Rs.

1,500,000

Rs.

750.000

Rs.

750,000

R.s

7.100,00]

Maximum yearly amounts for expenditure in respect of certain matters.

2Notes:__ (i) he amount of discretionary grant shall be replenished on its utilistion as a revolving fund.

(ii) umptuary allowance is exclusive of the expenditure on national celebrations, provision for which is made under “Contract Allowance.”]

3[“THIRD SCHEDULE'

[See section 7(b)]

Maximum yearly amounts for improvement and maintenance of official residence.

improvement, repairs and maintenance of

residence including maintenance and

replenishment of furniture

Rates, taxes

and Water

Total

(1)

(2)

(3)

Rs. 1,200,000

Rs. 150,000

Rs. 1,350,000.]

1Subs, by the Finance Act, 1996 (9 of 1996) s. 9, for figures “4.00.000.' “2,00.000” “15,50,000”, “6,50,000”, “3,25,000”, “4,00,000” and “35,25,000”.

2ubs. ibid., for''Note”.

3Subs, ibid., for Third Schedule.

 

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