 corrigenda to the' supreme court judges (conditions of service) amend-tent bill, 1978(!o be/as introduced in 10k sabha) 1 - page 3, line 7 from bottom,-bef~ "shanti blmshan" insert "shri" , 2 page 4, lines 11 and 12,-for "rs5ojo minus rs2220" read "(rs5ojo minus rs 2220) " 3 page 4, line 15,-for ''expeid1 ture" read "expenditure" -  bin no 139 of 19'78 the supreme court judges (conditions of service) amendment bill, 1978 a billfurther to amend the supreme court judges (conditions of service) act, 1958 be it enacted by parliament in the twenty-ninth year of the republic of india as follows:-1 this act may be called the supreme court judges (conditions of service) amendment act, 1978 short title '1 ot 1958 2 in section 2 of the supreme court judges (conditions of service) act, 1958 (hereinafter referred to as the principal act), in clause (h), for sub-clause (iii), the following sub-clause shall be substituted, namely:-amendmentol section 2 "(iii) any period of leave on full allowances for which a rate equal to the monthly rate of the salary is payable; " a in section 9 of the principal act, to sub-sect1on (1), the following proviso shall be added, namely:-amendmentol section 9 "provided tbat where leave on lull allowances is granted to a judge on medical certiftcate, the rate equal to the monthly rate of his salary shall be payable to him for tbe first one hundred and s twenty days of sucb leave" 4 after section 23c of the prin:ipal act, the following section shall be inserted and shall be deemed to have bet'n inserted with effect from the 1st day of april, 1!l78, namely;-insertion of new section 23d "23d notwithstanding anything contained in the income-tax 10 act, 1961, the value of rent-free official residence provided to a judge 43 ot 19g1 under sub-section (1) of section 23 shall not be included in the computation of his income chargeable under the head "salaries" under section 15 of the income-tax act, 19f1l' exemptionfrom liability to pay incometax on certain perquisites received by a judie  statement of objects and reasonsunder the supreme court judges (conditions of service) act, 1958 when a supreme court judge avails of leave on full allowances, he can draw full salary (equal to monthly rate of pay) for the first 45 days and lea\1€ allowan(;~ at the rate of l{::; 2,220 pel' month for the rest of such leave it is felt that this provision is inadequate inasmuch as it does not permit a judge to take medical leave on full monthly salary beyond 45 days at a time even though he is in a bad slte of health it is accordingly pro-'posed that the supreme court judges may be allowed full salary (equal to monthly rate of pay) for the first 120 days of leave on full allowances, if such leave is ~lvailed of on medical grounds a ,~upreme court judge is at present entitled without payment of rent to the use of an official resideme the value of rent-free accommodation provided to a judge is being treated as a pprquisite under the income-tax act and is taxed accordingly it hus been represented that the value of rent-free accommodation provided to judges should be free of income-tax, as otherwise the benefits provided on this account would be illusory it is accordingly proposed to exempt from income-tax the value of rent-free official residence provided to a supreme court judge from the assessment yejr 1 f}7()-79 commencing on 1st april, 1978 the bill seeks to amend the supreme court judges (conditions of service) act, 1958, to achieve the above objectives new delhi: the 24th august, hl78 shanti bhushan  president s recommendation under articles 117 and 274 of the constitution of india[cqpy of letter no 35/1/7b-jus(m) dated the 28th august 1978 from shanti bhushan, minister of law, j listiec and company affairs to the secretary, lok sabhal the president having been informed of the subject matter of the supreme court judges (conditions of service) amendment bill, 1978, recommends the introduction of the bill in lok sabha under articles 117(1) and 274(1) and the consideration of the bill in lok sabha under article 117(3) of the constitution of india --------------  under clause 30f the bill, which seeks to amend section 9 of the supreme court judges (conditions of service) act, 1958, a supjreme court judge will be entitled to leave allowances at the monthly rate of his salary for the first 120 days if the leave is availed of on a medical cei'tificate the monthly rate of leave sjlowances payable to a judge while on leave on full allowances for t}\e first 45 days is rs 5000 in the case of the chief justice and rs 4000 in the case of il puisne judge and at the rate of rs 2220 for the rest of such leave since allowances equal to monthly rate of salary will now be payable for an additional period of 75 days, the additional expenditure inyolved will be rs 2780 per month rs 5000 minus rs 2220 01' rs 6950 on each occasion in respect of the chief justice and rs 1780 per month (rs 4000 minus rs 2220) or rs 4450 on each occasion in respeet of a puisne judge 2 the bill will not involve any non-recurring expeiditure  annexure extracts from the supreme oourt judges (conditions of service) act, 1958(41 of 1958) -     2 in this act, unless the context otherwise requires,-definitiona     -  (h) "service for pension" includes-    (iii) forty-five days or the amount actually taken, whichever is less, of each period of leave on full allowances; -  - -  9(1) til(' monthly rate of leave allov,,'ances payable to a judge while leave on leave on full allowances shall be for the first forty-five days of such allawleave a rate equal to the monthly rate of the salary and thereafter two ances thous:md two hundred and twenty rupees   -   - a bill further to amend the supreme court !udges (conditions ot service) act, 1958  (shri shanti bhushan, minute?' of law, justice and company affairs) 