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Vanuatu Consolidated Legislation - 1988 |
Commencement: 1 July 1980
LAWS OF THE REPUBLIC OF VANUATU
REVISED EDITION 1988
CHAPTER 109
PARLIAMENT (MEMBERS’ EXPENSES AND ALLOWANCES)
JR 12 of 1980
Act 12 of 1983
Act 14 of 1984
Act 39 of 1984
Act 38 of 1985
Act 11 of 1987
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
SECTION
3. Representation allowance
4. Subsistence, sitting and touring allowances
6. Gratuity
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PARLIAMENT (MEMBERS' EXPENSES AND ALLOWANCES)
To provide for expenses and allowances payable to Members of Parliament.
TRAVELLING EXPENSES
(2) The Clerk of Parliament, unless requested not to, shall make all necessary travel arrangements including payment of fares. If a Member makes his own travel arrangements, those fares incurred by him in compliance with subsection (1) shall be refunded to him by the Clerk of Parliament on production of the appropriate documents showing his expenditure.
OVERSEAS TRAVELLING EXPENSES
REPRESENTATION ALLOWANCE
(2) Where a person becomes a Member of Parliament he shall be paid in arrears on the date of the monthly payment a proportion of the allowance described in subsection (1) calculated on a pro rata basis from and including the day he becomes a Member to the date of payment.
SUBSISTENCE, SITTING AND TOURING ALLOWANCES
When a member arrives in Port Vila a day before the commencement of the session, he shall be paid an additional allowance of VT3,000 for that day.
When Parliament is in session the allowance shall also be paid for Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays notwithstanding that Parliament may stand adjourned on those days.
A deduction of VT3,000 shall be made from the allowance payable to a Member under this subsection, for each day a Member is absent from a sitting of Parliament or a committee thereof. And when such absence is on a Friday, a deduction of VT3,000 shall also be made for each of the Saturday and the Sunday if an allowance is otherwise payable. And where such absence is on a day before a public holiday or holidays a deduction of VT3,000 shall be made for each such day or days, as the case may be, if an allowance is otherwise payable.
(2) Every Member of Parliament (including the Speaker and Ministers) shall be entitled to a sitting allowance at the rate of VT2,000 for each day that Parliament or a Committee thereof sits:
Provided that no such allowance shall be paid unless such Member actually attends the sitting of Parliament or of a Committee thereof.
(3) Every member of Parliament (including the Speaker and Ministers) shall be paid a touring allowance at the rate of VT10,000 per month and such allowance shall be paid monthly in Arrears together with the monthly allowance referred to in section 3(l).
PERSONS ENTITLED TO RECEIVE ALLOWANCE
GRATUITY
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