THE TAMIL NADU MINISTERS AND PRESIDING OFFICERS — The Tamil Nadu Payment of Salaries Act

## Page 1 1 THE TAMIL NADU MINISTERS AND PRESIDING OFFICERS OF LEGISLATURE (FURNISHING OF PRIVATE HOUSES AND PROVISION OF AMENITIES) RULES, 1977 In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 14, read with sub-section (2) of section 6-B of the Tamil Nadu Payment of Salaries Act, 1951 (Tamil Nadu Act XX of 1951), the Governor of Tamil Nadu hereby makes the following rules:- RULES 1. Short title, application and commencement.-(1) These rules may be called the Tamil Nadu Ministers and Presiding Officers of Legislature (Furnishing of Private Houses and Provision of Amenities) Rules, 1977. ¹(2) They shall apply to the furnishing, maintenance and the provision of amenities at the house occupied and owned by ²any Minister or the Speaker and is paid a rent of a sum not exceeding ³one lakh and fifty thousand rupees per mensem as may be fixed by the Public Works Department of the State Government in lieu of house rent paid under ²Section 3 or 4 of the Act. ²(3) They shall also apply to the furnishing, maintenance and the provision of amenities at the house occupied and owned by ¹the Deputy Speaker, the Parliamentary Secretary, the Leader of Opposition and Chief Government Whip and paid a rent of a sum not exceeding ³one lakh and fifty thousand rupees per mensem as may be fixed by the Public Works Department of the State Government in lieu of the house rent paid under section 2,4,6 or 6A of the Act. (4) They shall be deemed to have come into force on the 1st November 1967. 2. 4Definitions.-In these rules- (a) Omitted. 1. Vide G.O.Ms.No.1568, Public (Establishment I), dated 12th August, 1981. 2. Vide G.O.Ms.No.1266, Public (Establishment I and Legislature), dated 26th July 1990 (With effect from 1st November, 1986). 3. Vide G.O.Ms.No.381, Public (Estatblishment-I