KARACHI, Oct 21: The Governor of Sindh has promulgated the Sindh Speaker’s and Deputy Speaker’s (salaries, allowances and privileges) (Amendment) Ordinance-2002 which has come into force at once.

The following amendments have been made:

In the Sindh Speaker’s and Deputy Speaker’s (salaries, allowances and privileges) Act-1975, hereinafter referred to as the said Act, in section 5, for the words ‘twenty thousand two hundred and fifty rupees’ and ‘eighteen thousand’, the words ‘thirty thousand and five hundred’ and ‘twenty seven thousand rupees’ shall respectively by substituted.

In the said Act, in section 6, for sub-section (2), the following shall be substituted:

“(2) Where the Speaker or Deputy Speaker is not provided with an official residence or prefers to reside in his own house or a private residence, he shall respectively be paid thirty nine thousand and five hundred rupees and thirty five thousand rupees per mensem, and shall, in addition, be paid a sum of sixty thousand rupees for furnishing the house only once whether he is appointed as minister or elected as Speaker or Deputy Speaker for any number of occasions either during the first tenure of the Assembly after tenth day of March, 1985, or on election of a new Assembly.”

In the said Act, in section 10, in sub-section (1), for the words “Four hundred and fifty”, the words “five hundred and fifty” shall be substituted.—PPI