Updated: Thursday December 05, 2013/AlKhamis
Safar 02, 1435/Bruhaspathivara
Agrahayana 14, 1935, at 09:09:49 PM
[1][1]The
(Pb. Act I of 1998)
[
An
Act to provide for the withdrawal of the Secretariat Allowance
Preamble.— Whereas the Government of Punjab had made
provisions for the payment of an allowance called Secretariat Allowance to all
Secretariat employees;
And
whereas it is expedient to withdraw the said allowance to remove discrimination
among employees:---
It
is hereby enacted as follows:---
1. Short title and commencement.— (1) This Act may be called Punjab
Secretariat Allowance (Withdrawal) Act, 1997.
(2) It shall come into force at once.
2. Withdrawal of Secretariat Allowance.— (1) Government of Punjab Finance
Department’s letter No.FD.PC-2-1/88, dated 08-08-1988 hereinafter referred to
as the “said letter” which provided for the payment of an allowance called Secretariat
Allowance @ 20% of the basic pay to all employees in the Punjab Government
Secretariat, Governor’s Secretariat, Chief Minister’s Secretariat and Punjab
Provincial Assembly Secretariat being discriminatory shall be deemed never to
have been issued.
(2) The said letter shall be deemed not to
have created any right in favour of any person and the Government was not
liable to pay Secretariat Allowance on the basis of the said letter.
(3) Notwithstanding the provisions of
sub-sections (1) and (2), the allowance already paid to any person under the
said letter shall be deemed to have been validly paid and shall not be
recovered from him by the Government.
3. Repeal.—
The Punjab Secretariat Allowance (Withdrawal) Ordinance 1997 (XXXIV of 1997) is
hereby repealed.
[1][1]This Act was passed by the
Punjab Assembly on 29th December, 1997; assented to by the Governor of the
Punjab on 14th January, 1998; and, was published in the Punjab Gazette
(Extraordinary), dated 19th January, 1998, page 125.
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