THE SALARIES AND ALLOWANCES OF MINISTERS (PUDUCHERRY) ACT, 1964

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THE SALARIES AND ALLOWANCES 
OF MINISTERS (PUDUCHERRY) ACT, 1964 

(No. 14 of 1964) 
 

  

 
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS 

 
 
        SECTION  
 
 1.  Short title and commencement.  
 2.  Definitions.  
 3.  Salary, daily allowances etc., of Ministers.  
 4.  Residence of Ministers.  
 5.  Conveyance allowance and use of motor-cars.  
 6.  Motor-car advance.  
 7.  Travelling and daily allowances to Ministers.  
 8.  Medical treatment etc., to Ministers.  
 9.  Ministers not to draw salary or allowances as members of  
  Legislative Assembly.  
 10.  Notification respecting appointment, etc., of Minister to be  
  conclusive evidence thereof.  
 11.  Power to make rules.  

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 



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THE SALARIES AND ALLOWANCES OF MINISTERS 
(PUDUCHERRY) ACT, 1964 

(No. 14 of 1964) 
 

AN ACT 

 
to provide for the salaries and allowances of Ministers of the Union  
  territory of Puducherry.  
     
       BE it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of Puducherry in the Fifteenth 
Year of the Republic of India as follows:- 
         

 1. Short title and commencement. - (1) This Act may be called the Salaries 
and Allowances of Ministers (Puducherry) Act, 1964, 

     + (2) It shall come into force at once. 
 

 2. Definitions. – In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires –  

(a)  “Act” means the Government of Union territories Act, 1963 (20 of 
1963);  

(b) “advance” means a repayable advance made to a Minister for the 
purchase of motor-car, or on account of travelling or daily allowance;  

(c) “family” means a Minister’s wife residing with him and legitimate 
children and step-children residing with and wholly dependent on 
him. Not more than one wife is included in a family for the purposes 
of this Act. If the Minister is a married woman, “family” will include 
her husband residing with her;  

(d) “Minister” means a Minister appointed under sub-section  (1) of 
section 45 of the Act and includes the Chief Minister and a Deputy 
Minister;   

(e) “travelling allowance” means allowance granted to Minister to cover 
the expenses which he incurs in travelling in the interest of public 
service as against travelling in personal interest or for private 
purpose, such as journeys for rest or recoupment of health or for 
attending party meetings or for election campaign;    

(f) “Government” means the Administrator of the Union territory of 
Puducherry appointed under article 239 of the Constitution.  

 

 

+ This Act came into force w.e.f  22.03.1965  



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         **[3.  Salary, daily allowances, etc., of Ministers . (1) There shall be paid to 
each Minister a salary of eight thousand rupees per mensem; 

  (2)  There shall be paid to each Minister,-  

   (a) compensatory allowance of ten thousand rupees per mensem; 

(b) contingency allowance of four thousand rupees per mensem;          
     and 
 
(c) constituency allowance of five thousand rupees per mensem. 

    

  (3)  Every Minister shall also be entitled to receive allowance for each day 
during the whole of his term of office at the rate of rupees five hundred.]   

 

 4. Residence of Ministers. – Each Minister shall be entitled without any 
payment to the use and maintenance of a furnished residence throughout his term 
of office and for a period of fifteen days immediately thereafter, and so long as 
such residence is not provided, there shall be paid a compensatory allowance or 
*[rupees five hundred] per month in the case of a Minister other than a Deputy 
Minister and *[rupees four hundred per month] in the case of a Deputy Minister.    

 Explanation. – For the purposes of this section, “residence” includes the 
staff quarters and other buildings appurtenant thereto, and the garden thereof, 
and ‘maintenance’ in relation to a residence includes provisions of electricity and 
water to the extent of rupees **[two thousand five hundred rupees per mensem] to 
each Minister and also payment of local rates and taxes.  
 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
     *  Substituted by Act 9 of 1994  w.e.f  20.09.1993   
    **  Amended vide Act No.4 of 2010. This Act has come into force w.e.f 09.02.2007 
 

 



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5. Conveyance allowance and use of motor-cars. – Each Minister shall be entitled 
to : -   

(a) (i)  the free use of a motor-car, the cost of maintenance of     
  which shall be borne by the Minister;  

 (ii) the services of a chauffeur; and  

 (iii)  Petrol for the car up to a maximum of sixty litres  
  per mensem, the cost of which shall be borne  
  by the Government; or;   

  (b) a conveyance allowance of rupees *[seven hundred] per month, if he 
uses his own vehicle; or  
 
  (c) the free use of a motor-car, the entire cost of maintenance and 
propulsion of which shall be borne by the Government subject to the following 
conditions, namely:- 

(i)  no conveyance allowance shall be admissible;  

(ii)  for journeys on tour, only daily allowance shall be admissible 
according to normal rules and no mileage allowance shall be 
admissible;  

(iii) in respect of journeys which do not qualify for travelling 
allowance within 8 kilometres from the headquarters, a limit 
of 600 kilometres per month of 1,800 kilometres per quarter 
will apply and beyond these limits, charges at the rates 
prescribed under the Staff Car Rules shall be payable to the 
Government;   

(iv) charges at the rates mentioned above shall also be payable in 
respect of private journeys performed by the vehicle beyond 8 
kilometres from headquarters; and 

(v) a long book shall be maintained for journeys referred to in 
sub-clauses (iii) and (iv) to facilitate payments to Government.  

 
 Explanation. – For the purposes of clause (a) “maintenance” shall include 
the cost of petrol and oil, servicing, repairs below Rs. 25 and other incidental 
charges, but shall not include expenditure on insurance and fees for registration 
and Municipal taxes.  
 

 
  *  Substituted by Act 9 of 1994  w.e.f 20.09.1993 
 

 



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 6. Motor-car advance. – There may be paid to a Minister by way of 
repayable advance such sum of money, and subject to such conditions, as may be 
determined by rules made in this behalf, for the purchase of a motor-car, in order 
that he may be able to discharge conveniently and efficiently the duties of his 
office. 
 

 7. Travelling and daily allowances to Ministers. – (1) Subject to the 
provisions of the Schedule to the Act, a Minister shall be entitled to ---  

(a) travelling allowances for himself and the members of his family 
and for the transport of his and his family’s effects : -  

(i) in respect of the journey to Puducherry from his usual 
place of residence outside Puducherry for assuming 
office; and  

(ii) in respect of the journey from Puducherry to his usual 
place of residence outside Puducherry on relinquishing 
office; and  

 
(b) travelling and daily allowances in respect of tours undertaken by 

him in the discharge of his official duties, whether by land, sea or 
air.  

 
  (2) Any travelling allowance under this section may be paid in cash or 
free official transport provided in lieu thereof.  
 

 8. Medical treatment, etc., to Ministers. – A Minister and the members of 
his family shall be entitled free of charge to accommodation in hospitals 
maintained by the Government and also to medical treatment in accordance with 
the Medical Attendance Rules, as amended from time to time, applicable to Class I 
Officers serving in connection with the administration of the Union territory of 
Puducherry.  
 

 9. Ministers not to draw salary or allowances as Members of Legislative 
Assembly. – No person in receipt of a salary or allowance under this Act shall be 
entitled to receive any sum out of funds provided by the Legislative Assembly of 
the Union territory of Puducherry by way of salary or allowance in respect of his 
membership of such Assembly except to the extent specifically provided by and 
under this Act.  

 
 10. Notification respecting appointment, etc., of Minister to be conclusive 
evidence thereof. – The date on which any person became or ceased to be a 
Minister shall be published in the Official Gazette of the Union territory of 
Puducherry, and any such notification shall be conclusive evidence of the fact that 
he became, or ceased to be, a Minister on that date for all the purposes of this Act.   
 



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 11. Power to make rules. – (1) The Government may, by notification in the 
Official Gazette of the Union territory of Puducherry, make rules for carrying out 
the purposes of this Act.  

  (2) Every rule made under this Act shall be laid as soon as may be after 
it is made, before the Assembly while it is in session for a total period of not less 
than fourteen days which may be comprised in one session or in two or more 
successive sessions and if before the expiry of the session in which it is so laid or 
the sessions aforesaid, the Assembly makes any modifications in the rule, the rule 
shall thereafter have effect only in such modified form or be of no effect, as the 
case may be, so, however, that any such modification or annulment shall be 
without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under that rule.  
 

SCHEDULE 
(See section 7) 

 
  1. Travelling on duty. – When travelling on duty by railway or by road or 
by steamer, a Minister shall be entitled to draw travelling allowance and daily 
allowance at the maximum rates applicable to *[a Group ‘A’ Officer of the highest 
grade] serving in connection with the administration of the Union territory.  

 Provided that a Minister shall be entitled to draw only half of such 
travelling allowance if he travels on duty by road in a motor-car provided to him 
under clause (a) of section 5.   
 

 2. Travelling allowance on journey for assuming and demitting of office. 
– In respect of the journey to headquarters from his usual place of residence for 
assuming office or between headquarters and his usual place of residence on 
demitting office, a Minister is entitled to travelling allowance on the scale for the 
time being admissible to *[a Group ‘A’ Officer of the highest grade] serving in 
connection with the Administration of the Union territory on transfer subject to the 
modification that for journeys by rail, a Minister and the Members of his family 
may travel by air-conditioned class of accommodation.  
 
 2A. Travel by railway. – A Minister when travelling by railway on duty 
shall have the right to travel by first class compartment or by an air-conditioned 
coupe.   
 

3. Travel by air. – (1) A Minister may, in the public interest, perform journeys 
 on tour by air i.e., in an aircraft of public Air Transport Undertaking plying 
 for hire.  

 

 
  *  Amended vide Act No.4 of 2010.  This Act has come into force w.e.f. 09.02.2007 
 



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  (2) On the cancellation of a journey due to official reasons, a Minister 
shall be entitled to be reimbursed by Government any deduction made by the Air 
Transport Undertaking when refunding the fare on account of cancellation of the 
air passage.  

  (3) A Minister who does not utilise the free transport provided by the 
Air Transport Undertaking between the Air booking Centre and the Airport may 
also recover in respect of journey to and from the Airport actual travelling 
expenses or road mileage as for journey on duty by road.  
  

 4. Advances. – A Minister shall be entitled to ---  

  (a) an advance of travelling allowance towards the cost of transporting 
himself and the members of his family and his family effects : -  

(i) in respect of the journey to headquarters from 
headquarters to his usual place of residence outside the 
headquarters on relinquishing office.  

  (b) an advance of travelling and daily allowance in respect of the tours 
undertaken by him in the discharge of his official duties whether by sea, land or 
air.  

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