 diu no 74 of 1970 the salaries and allowances of officers of parliament (amendment) bill, 1970 a billto amend the salaries and allowances of o(jicers of parliament act, 1953 be it enacted by parliament in the twenty-first year of the republic of india as follows:-1 (1) this act may be called the salaries and allowances of ofhcers short title of parliament (amendment) act, 1970 commence-5 and ment (2) it shall be deemed to have come into force on the 1st day of november, 1969  20 of 1953 z section 4: of the salaries and allowances of officers of parliament amend act, 1953 shall be re-numbered as sub-section' (1) thereof andment of section 4 (i) in sub-section (1) as so re-numbered, for the words "fifteen 10 days", the words "one month" shall be substituted; and (ii) after sub-section (1) as so re-numbered and before the explanation, the following sub-section shall be inserted, namely:-"(2) in the event of the death of an officer of parliament, his family shall be entitled to the use of the furnished residence occupied by the officer of parliament-15 (a) for a period of one month immediately after his death, without payment of rent and no charge shall fall on the family of the officer of parliament in respect of the maintenance of such residenel, and (b) for a further period of one month, on payment 01 rent at such rates as may be prescribed by rules made in this behalf under section 11 and also charges in respect of electricity and water consumed in that residence during such further period" 5  statement of objects and reasonsunder section 4 of the salaries and allowances of officers of parliament act, 1953, an officer of parliam~nt (namely, the chairman or the deputy chairman of the council of states or the speaker or the deputy speaker of the house of the people) is entitled, without payment of rent, to the use of furnished residence throughout his term of oftlce and for a period of fifteen days immediately thereafter this period of fifteen days is considered short when an officer of patliament vacates office and is even more so when his family has to' vacate the residence in the event of his death, considering that this is the period which would, in most cases, be taken up in completing the funeral rites 2 it is, therefore, proposed to increase the aforesaid period of fifteen days to one month when an officer of parliament vacates office in the event of the death of an officer cf parliament it is proposed to provide that his family shall be entitled to the use of the furnished residence occupied by the officer of parliament for a period of two months immediately after his death for the first month his family will not be liable for payment of rent or maintenance cbargesbut during the second month, his family will have to pay rent at the pl'esc:ribed rates and charges for electricity and water consumed during that month 3 it is also proposed to give retrospective effect to the above proposals from 1st november, 1969 new delhi; k raghu ramaiah the 6th july, 1970  president's recommendation under article 117 of the constitution of india[copy of letter no 160(l)/67-70/pa, dated the 18th july, 1970 from shri k raghu ramaiah, minister of parliamentary mairs, and shipping and transport to the secretary, lok sabha] the president having been informed of the subject matter of the pro· posed bill further to amend the salaries and allowances of oftlcers of parliament act, 1953, recommends the introduction of the bill under article 117 (1) and its consideration by lok sabha under article 117 (3) of the constitution  financial memorandumunder section 4 of the salaries and allowances of officers of parliament act, 1953, an officer of parliament (which term means the chairman or the deputy chairman of the council of states or the speaker or the deputy speaker of the house of the people) is entitled, without payment of rent, to the use of a furnished residence throughout his term of office and a periw of fifteen days immediately thereafter the proposed provision in clause 2 of the bill is to increase this period to one month when the officer of parliament vacates office and to two months in the event of his death (the intention being that his family may retain the residence for a period of one month after his death without payment of rent and fql' a further period of ohe month on payment of rent at prescribed rates) "if the period of retention is increased to one month or two months, as the case may be, instead of fifteen days as at present, the additional financial expenditure likely to be involved out of the consolidated fund of india will be about rs 1,200 or, as the case may be, rs 2,100 per annum however, as the expenditure is of an uncertain and unpredictable nature, it would not be possible to make an exact assessment of the amount likely to be involved but it is not expected to be large  annexure extract from the salaries and allowances of officers of parliament act, 1953(20 of 1953) - - - - - 4 each officer of parliament shall be entitled without payment of residence rent to' the use of a furnished residence throughout his term of office for officers of parliaand for a period of fifteen days immediately thereafter, and no charge manto shall fallon the officer personally in respect of the maintenance of such residence - - - - expl4nation-for the purposes of this section, "residence" includes the staft quarters and other buildings appurtenant thereto and the garden thereof, and "maintenance" in relation to a residence includes the pay· ment of local rates and taxes and the provision of electricity and water  - a bill co amend the salaries and auowances of ofbcers of parliament act 1953 (shri k rtlfhu rtjlfuriall, minuter uf p",'iamsruary alairs, tjrrd sm""" artd trqltsport)                                               ; 