PARLIAMENTARY PENSIONS

1. This Law may be cited as the
Parliamentary Pensions Law.

2. There shall be established a
non-contributory pension scheme (hereinafter
referred to as” the pension scheme “) for the
grant of pensions to persons who have ceased
to be Members of the Legislature.

3. Any person who has served as a
Member of the Legislature of Sri Lanka after
July 7, 1931, and who is a citizen of Sri
Lanka at the time of coming into operation of
this Law, shall, subject as hereinafter
provided, be entitled to a pension under this
Law.

4. Any person who has served as a
Member of the Legislature for a minimum
period of five years in the aggregate shall be
entitled to monthly payment of a pension
amounting to one-third of the substantive
monthly allowance currently payable to a
Member of the National State Assembly and
a maximum of two-thirds of such substantive
monthly allowance if he has served an
aggregate period of fifteen years or more as
such Member:

Provided that any person who has served as a Member of the Legislature for a period of more than five years but less than fifteen years shall receive a monthly proportionate pension determined in accordance with a table of payment to be prepared by the Speaker with the concurrence of the Minister in charge of the subject of Finance.

5. Any pension payable under this Law
shall be paid only after the person entitled to
such payment has ceased to be a Member of
the Legislature:

Provided that such pension shall be payable only during the lifetime of such person and shall cease to be payable upon his death.

6. Where any person who is in receipt of
a pension paid under this Law is re-elected to
the Legislature, such person shall not receive
such pension from the date of his re-election
until such time as he ceases to be a Member
of the Legislature.

7. Where a Member of any Legislature
vacates his seat in such Legislature under any
written law for the time being in force, other
than by resignation or the dissolution of such
Legislature, the period of his service as a
Member in such Legislature from the date of
his election to such Legislature up to the date
of such vacation shall not be taken into
account for the purpose of the computation of
any pension under this Law.

8. No pension payable under this Law
shall be assigned or transferred and any such
assignment or transfer shall be absolutely
null and void and of no effect. No such
pension shall be attached or levied upon or
sequestered or taken in execution on account
of any debt or payment due by the person to
whom such pension is payable.

9. No payment of pension shall be made
to any person so entitled unless there is
furnished to the Secretary-General of
Parliament a certificate that such member to
whom the payment is due, is alive at the time
of payment.

10. The Secretary-General of Parliament shall in consultation with the Speaker manage the affairs connected with the pension scheme and all payments of pension shall be authorized by him out of funds sanctioned for the purpose by parliament under the Votes of Parliament.

11. The pension payable under this Law shall be a charge on the Consolidated Fund.

12. The Speaker may, with the concurrence of the Minister in charge of the subject of Finance, make rules under this Law for the management of the pension scheme.

13. In this Law, unless the context otherwise requires-

” Member of the Legislature ” means a person who has been-