ACT No.19 OF 2021 - the Tamil Nadu Payment of Salaries (Amendment) Act, 2021.

No. 440] CHENNAI, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2021 Purattasi 11, Pilava, Thiruvalluvar Aandu–2052

Part IV—Section 2

Tamil Nadu Acts and Ordinances

The following Act of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly received the assent

of the Governor on the 27th September 2021 and is hereby published for

general information:—

ACT No.19 OF 2021.

An Act further to amend the Tamil Nadu Payment of Salaries Act, 1951.

B(cid:3469) it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the State of Tamil Nadu in the

Seventy-second Year of the Republic of India as follows:—

1. (1) This Act may be called the Tamil Nadu Payment of Salaries (Amendment)

Act, 2021.

Short title and commence- ment.

(2) Sub-sections (1) and (4) of section 2 and section 4 shall come into force at once and all the remaining sections shall be deemed to have come into force on the 1st day of April 2020.

2. In section 12 of the Tamil Nadu Payment of Salaries Act, 1951 (hereinafter

Tamil Nadu Act XX of 1951. referred to as the principal Act),—

Amendment of section 12.

(1) sub-section (2-A) shall be omitted.

(2) for sub-section (2-AA), the following sub-section shall be substituted,

namely: —

"(2-AA) Where any Member of the Legislative Assembly dies before the expiry of the term of his offi ce, his family shall be paid a lump-sum allowance of fi ve lakh rupees.".

(3) for sub-section (2-B) excluding the Explanation thereunder, the

following sub-section shall be substituted, namely: —

"(2-B) The lump-sum allowance payable under sub-section (2-AA)

shall be paid to the members of the family in equal shares.".

(4) in sub-section (4-A), after clause (a), the following proviso shall be added,

namely: —

"Provided that in case of air conditioned sleeper buses, the spouse or

companion of such member shall be provided seating facility only.".

Amendment of section 12-B.

3. In section 12-B of the principal Act, in sub-section (1), for the expression "twenty thousand rupees", the expression "twenty fi ve thousand rupees" shall be substituted.

4. In section 12-C of the principal Act, after sub-section (1), the following

Amendment of section 12-C. proviso shall be added, namely: —

"Provided that in case of air conditioned sleeper buses, the spouse or

companion of such member shall be provided seating facility only.".

Validation. 5. Notwithstanding anything contained in the principal Act, all acts done or proceedings taken under the principal Act, for sanctioning of lump-sum allowance or pension during the period commencing on the 1st day of April 2020 and ending with the date of publication of this Act in the Tamil Nadu Government Gazette, shall be deemed to be validly done or taken in accordance with law as if the principal Act as amended by this Act, had been in force at all material times when such acts or proceedings were done or taken.

(By order of the Governor)

C. GOPI RAVIKUMAR, Secretary to Government (Legislation), Law Department.