Section 7

Conditions of service and salaries and allowances of members.

The Finance Commission (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1951

  • Act 33 of 1951
  • Ministry of Finance
  • Department of Economic Affairs
About this Act

An Act to determine the qualifications requisite for appointment as members of the Finance Commission and the manner in which they shall be selected, and to prescribe their powers.

All sections
    1[(1)] The members of the Commission shall render wholetime or part-time service to the Commission as the President may in each case specify, and there shall be paid to the members of the Commission such fees or salaries and such allowances as the Central Government may, by rules made 1[by notification in the official Gazette] in this behalf, determine.
     2[(2) Every rule made under this section 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 that the rule should not be made, 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.]

Notes

1. Section 7 renumbered as sub-section (1) thereof by Act 4 of 1986, s. 2 and the Schedule (w.e.f. 15-5-1986)
2. Ins. by Act 4 of 1986, s. 2 and the Schedule (w.e.f. 15-5-1986).

Source: India Code (Legislative Department, Govt. of India). Check the official Gazette before relying on it in court. Not legal advice. Free legal aid: 15100 (NALSA) · Know your rights

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