CHAPTER 262
MINISTERIAL AND PARLIAMENTARY OFFICES (EMOLUMENTS) ACT

Arrangement of Sections

   Section

   1.   Short title

   2.   Salaries and allowances

   2A.   Constituency allowance

   3.   Allowances exempt from tax

   4.   Payment of Gratuity

   5.   Payments under this Act

   6.   Payment of Members of National Assembly in respect

   7.   No payment of salary during imprisonment, restriction or detention

      FIRST SCHEDULE

      SECOND SCHEDULE

      THIRD SCHEDULE

AN ACT

to provide for revised salaries, and gratuity payable to the holders of the offices of Vice President, Speaker, Deputy Speaker, Minister, Deputy Minister, Leader of the opposition and member of the National Assembly; to repeal and replace the Central Committee, Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices (Emoluments) Act, and to provide for matters connected with or incidental to the foregoing.

[31st July, 1992]

Act 31 of 1992,

Act 46 of 1994,

Act 13 of 1995,

Act 19 of 1995,

Act 22 of 1996,

Act 27 of 1996,

Act 14 of 1997,

Act 15 of 1999,

Act 26 of 2000,

Act 8 of 2002,

Act 13 of 2005,

Act 12 of 2007,

Act 19 of 2008,

Act 13 of 2009.

1. Short title

    This Act may be cited as the Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices (Emoluments) Act.

2. Salaries and allowances

   (1) There shall be paid to the holder of an office specified in the Schedule such salary and allowances as the Minister responsible for finance may prescribe, by statutory instrument, in consultation with the Standing Orders Committee of the National Assembly.

   (2) Notwithstanding the repeal of the First and Second Schedules to this Act, a holder of an office to whom Sub-section (1) applies shall continue to receive the salaries and allowances applicable until the coming into operation of such statutory instrument as the Minister responsible for finance may prescribe under sub-section (1).

[S 2 subs by s 2 of Act 13 of 2009.]