 bill no 93 oll~ the supreme court judges (conditions of service) amendment bill, 1970 a :billto amend the supreme c01lrt judges (conditions of service) act, 1958 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 supreme court judges (conditions short titre of service) amendment act, 1970 and commence-5 (2) it shall come into force on such date as the central government ment may, by notification in the official gazette, appoint 41 of 1958 2 in section 3 of the supreme court judges (conditions of service) ~hlend­act, 1958 (hereinafter referred to as the principal act), in subsection ment of 1 section 3 (1), for clause (a), the following clause sha i be substituted, namely:-10 "(a) leave on full allowances (including commuted leave on half allowances into leave on full allowances on medical certificate); or" 3 in section 5 of the principal act, in sub-section (3) lor the words amend "the maximum period of leave which may be granted", the words, ment of brackets, figures and letter "subject to the provisions of sub-section (2) section 5 is of section 5a, the maximum period of leave which may be granted" shall be substituted 4 after section 5 of the principal act, the following section shall be inserted, na,me~y;-mertion taew section ia "sa (1) notwithstanding ~ything contaired in sub-section (2) of section 5, a judge may be pennitted to com~te leave on half allowances into lc'l-,c on f1th allowances on medical certicate up to 5 a maximum of three months during the whole period of his service as a judge commutation of leave on half allowances into leave on full allowances (2) in computing the maximum period of leave on full allowances which may be granted at one time to a judge under sub-section (3) of section 5, the amount of commuted leave permitted to ibim under 10 tbis section shall not be taken into account"  statement of objects and reasonsunder the supreme court judges (c<mditions of service) act, 1956, when a judge of the supreme court avails of leave on full allowances, he is entitled to full salary (equal to monthly rate of pay) for the first 45 days and leave allowance at the rate of rs 2,220 per month for the rest ·jf such leave the maximum period of leave on full allowances which may be granted at one time is five months consequently, if a judge is forced to take long leave for reasons of ill-health, he has to avail of leave on half allowances during which period he is entitled to an allowance at the rate of rs 1,110 per month only to give some relief in such cases, it is proposed to extend to the judges of the supreme court the facility of commuting leave on half allowances into leave on full allowances on medical certificate up to a maximum period of three mooths during the entire service as judge, on the analogy of the provision for "commuted leave" obtaining in the case of central government empioyees 2 the bill seeks too amend the supreme court judges (conditions of 'service) act, 1958 to achieve the a')'we objective new delhi; ram niwas mirdha 'the 12th august, 1970  president's recommendation under article 117 of the constitution of indl\[copy of letter no 19/3/69-judliii (iii), dated the 13th august, 1970 from shri ram niwas mirdha, minister of state in the ministry of home affairs to the secretary, lok sabha] the president having been informed of the subject matter of the supreme court judges (conditions of service) amendment bill, 1970, recommends the introduction and consideration of the bill in the lok sabha under article 117 (1) and 117 (3) of the constitution of india clause 4 of the bill makes provision enabung a supreme court jj,l~eto co~mute leave on half allowances into leave on full allowances c>n medical ·certificate up to' a maximum period of three months during the· whole period of his service as a judge 2 the monthly rate of allowance payable to a judge while on leave on half allowances is rs 1,110 during leave on full allowances a judg~ is ~titled to draw full sal~ry (~qual to monthly rate of pay) for the first 45 days and leave allowance at the rate of rs 2,220 per month for the rest of such leave if commuted leave is taken in spells of less than~5 days, the monthly allowance will be rs 5,000 for chief justice and rs 4,000 for any other judge since only six months of leave on half allowances can be converted into leave on full allowances, the addition,al expenditure per judge, other than the chief justice, would be rs 4,000 minus rs 2,220, ie, rs 1,780 for each rponth of commuted leave or rs 5,340 far the entire period of 3 months commuted leave assumi:t:lg that all the 12 judges of the supreme court will avail of commuted leave, the total expenditure will be of the order of rs 64,080 the average period of service of a supreme court judge being 8 years, theannual recurring expenditure will be about rs 8,000 3 'i'here will be no non-recurring expenditure  act, 1958(41 of 1958) - - - - -  chapter ii leave3 (1) subject to the provisions of this act, leave granted to a judge kinds of may be at h· s option eitherleave admiaaibjetoa jue (a) leave on fun allowances; or - - - 5 (1) - - - - - - - alirepte (3) the maximum period of leave which may be granted at one time amount of shall be, in the case of leave on full allowances, five months and in the leave case of leave with allowances of ally kind, sixteen months ::: ·     ~~ it bill to amend the supreme court judges (caaditions of service) act, 1958 (shri ram nirdas mirdh~ minister of stale in the ministry of home affairs ' 