THE VICE-PRESIDENT'S PENSION ACT, 1997
ACT NO. 30 OF 1997
[28th May, 1997.]


An Act to provide for the payment of pension and other facilities to

retiring Vice-Presidents.



BE it enacted by Parliament in the Forty-eighth Year of the Republic

of India as follows:-


1.
Short title.


1. Short title.



This Act may be called the Vice-President's Pension Act, 1997.


2.
Pension to retiring Vice-Presidents.


2. Pension to retiring Vice-Presidents.



(1) There shall be paid to every person who ceases to hold officer as

Vice-President, either by the expiration of his term of officer or by

resignation of his office, a pension of six thousand two hundred and

fifty rupees per month, for the remainder of his life:



Provided that such person shall not be entitled to receive any pension

during the period he holds the office of the Prime Minister, a

Minister or any other office or becomes a Member of Parliament and is

in receipt of salary and allowances which are defrayed out of the

Consolidated fund of In dia or the Consolidated Fund of a State.



(2) Subject to any rules that may be made in this behalf, every such

person shall, for the remainder of his life, be entitled-



(a) to the use of such furnished residence (including its

maintenance), without payment of rent, as a Union Deputy Minister is

entitled to during his tenure of office under the provisions of the

Salaries and allowances of Ministers Act, 1952 (58 of 1952);



(b) to the use of similar telep hone facilities at his residence, as a

member of Parliament is entitled to under the provisions of the

Salary, Allowances and Pension of Members of Parliament Act, 1954 (30

of 1954);



(c) to secretarial staff; and office expense not exceeding rupees six

thousand per annum;



(d) to the same facilities for himself as respects medical attendance

and treatment and on the same conditions as a retired president is

entitled to under the provisions of the President's Emoluments and

Pension Act, 1951 (30 of 1951);



(e) to the same facilities for his spouse and minor children as

respects medical attendance and treatment and on the same conditions

as the spouse of a retired President is entitled to under the

provisions of the President's Emoluments and Pensions Act, 1951 (30 of

1951); and



(f) to travel anywhere in India, accompanied by his spouse, the

executive class by air, andthe highest class by rail.


3.
Medical facilities to the family of deceased Vice-President.


3. Medical facilities to the family of deceased Vice-President.



Subject to any rules that may be made in this behalf, the spouse of a

person who dies while holding the office of Vice-Presidentshall, for

the remainder of life, be entitled to medical attendance and

treatment, free of charge.


4.
Pension to be charged on the Consolidated Fund of India.


4. Pension to be charged on the Consolidated Fund of India.



Any sum payable under this Act shall be charged on the Consolidated

Fund of India.


5.
Power to make rules.


5. Power to make rules.



(1) The Central Government may, by notification in the Official

Gazettee, make rules for carrying out the purposes of this Act.



(2) Every rules made by the Central Government under this Act, shall

be laid, as soon as may be after it is made, before each House of

Parliament, while it is in session for a total period of thirty days

which may be comprised in one session or in two or more successive

sessions, and if, before the expiry of the session immediately

following the session or the successive sessions aforesaid, both

Houses agree in making any modification in the rule or both Houses

agree t hat the rule should not be made, the rule shall thereafter

have effect only in such modified from or be of no effect, as the case

may be; so, however, t hat any such modification or annulment shall

be without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under

that rule.