Part V · Officers of Parliament
Article 97 Salaries and allowances of the Chairman and Deputy Chairman and the Speaker and Deputy Speaker.
This article provides salaries for the presiding officers. The Chairman and the Deputy Chairman of the Council of States and the Speaker and the Deputy Speaker of the House of the People receive salaries and allowances. These are fixed by Parliament by law. Until Parliament makes such a law, they are paid as fixed by rules.
- There shall be paid to the Chairman and the Deputy Chairman of the Council of States, and to the Speaker and the Deputy Speaker of the House of the People, such salaries and allowances as may be respectively fixed by Parliament by law and, until provision in that behalf is so made, such salaries and allowances as are specified in the Second Schedule.
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This article provides salaries for the presiding officers. The Chairman and the Deputy Chairman of the Council of States and the Speaker and the Deputy Speaker of the House of the People receive salaries and allowances. These are fixed by Parliament by law. Until Parliament makes such a law, they are paid as fixed by rules.