Provincial Councils(Payment of salaries and allowances)



Provincial Councils(Payment of salaries and allowances)
AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE SALARIES AND ALLOWANCES TO BE PAID TO A GOVERNOR OF A PROVINCE, THE CHIEF MINISTER, AND A MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF MINISTERS OF A PROVINCE, AND TO A MEMBER OF A PROVINCIAL COUNCIL ; AND FOR MATTERS CONNECTED THEREWITH OR INCIDENTAL THERETO.

BE it enacted by the Parliament of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka as follows :

[9th November
, 1988
]
Short title.

1. This Act may be cited as the Provincial Councils (Payment of Salaries and Allowances) Act, No. 37 of 1988.

Salaries and allowances to be paid to Governors. chief Ministers Members of Board of Ministers and to member of Provincial of Councils.

2.

(a) of a Governor of a Province, such Governor shall be entitled to the payment of a monthly salary and allowances equal to the monthly salary and all other allowances currently payable to a Minister of the Cabinet of Ministers ;

(b)of a Chief Minister, such Chief Minister shall be entitled to the payment of a monthly salary and allowances equal to the monthly salary and all other allowances payable to a Governor of a Province under paragraph (a), less a sum of fifty rupees;

(c) of a Member of the Board of Ministers of a Province. such member shall be entitled to the payment of a monthly salary and allowances, equal to the monthly salary and all other allowances currently payable to a Deputy Minister ; and

(d)of a member of a Provincial Council, such member shall be entitled to the payment of a monthly salary and allowances equal to fifty per centum of the monthly salary and all other allowances currently payable to a Member of Parliament.

Salaries and allowances to be expenditure charged on the provincial Funds of a Province.

3. The salaries and allowances payable under this Act to a Chief Minister of a Province, a Member of a Board of Ministers of a Province and a Member of a “Provincial Council established for a Province, shall be expenditure charged on the Provincial Fund of such Province.