Prime Minister's Salary, Allowances and Privileges Act,1975

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THE PRIME MINISTER'S SALARY, ALLOWANCES AND 
PRIVILEGES ACT, 1975 
 
 
 
 
 
 
CONTENTS 
 
1. Short title and commencement. 
2. Definitions. 
3.  Salary.  
4.  Equipment allowance.  
5.  Allowances on taking up and laying down the office. 
6.  Official residence, railway saloons, rivercraft, aircraft and official cars. 
7.  Discretionary grant, sumptuary allowance and other allowances. 
8.  Payment of further amounts. 
9.  Payment on account of deferred pay, etc., of officers. 
10.  Amounts to be included in estimates of expenditure. 
11.  Compensation in case of air accident. 
12. Leave. 
13.  Medical facilities. 
14.  Customs-duties or sales tax not leviable on certain articles. 
15.  Provident Fund. 
16.  Act to have effect subject to instructions, etc. 
16A.  Increase in Emoluments. 
 

 
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17. Security. 
 FIRST SCHEDULE. 
 SECOND SCHEDULE. 
 THIRD SCHEDULE. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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THE PRIME MINISTER'S SALARY, ALLOWANCES AND PRIVILEGES 
ACT, 1975 
 
1ACT No. LIX of 1975 
[23rd July, 1975] 
 
An Act to determine the salary, allowances and privileges of the Prime Minister. 
 
WHEREAS it is expedient to determine the salary, allowances and privileges of the Prime 
Minister and to make provision for enabling him to discharge conveniently and with dignity the 
duties of his office; 
 
It is hereby enacted as follows:— 
 
1. Short title and commencement.—(1) This Act may be called the Prime Minister's 
Salary, Allowances and Privileges Act, 1975. 
 
(2) It shall come into force at once and shall be deemed to have taken effect on the fourteenth 
day of August, 1973. 
 
2. Definitions. In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context,— 
 
(a)  “family” means the Prime Minister's 2[spouse] and such of his children and 
step-children as ordinarily reside with and are wholly dependent upon him ; 
 
(b)  “furnishings” means pictures, paintings, curios, linen, glass-ware, brass-ware, 
cutlery, crockery, kitchen equipment, radios, radiograms, lamps, public 
address systems, projectors, television sets of all kinds, accoustical equipment 
and similar other articles; 
 
(c)  “furniture” includes carpets, sofa covers, curtains, refrigerators, 
airconditioners, washing machines and similar other articles; 
 
(d)  “Government” means the Federal Government;  
 
(e)  “maintenance”,— 
 
(i)  in relation to official residence, includes the maintenance and 
replenishing of furniture and furnishings, payment of local rates and 
taxes, maintenance of roads and electric, water, gas and sanitary 
fixtures and installations, and the provision of electricity, gas and 
water; 
 
(ii)  in relation to rivercraft, includes expenditure on the pay of the 
establishment m aintained in connection therewith, and on their 
victualling while  afloat, and expenditure on the pu rchase of  
marinestores; and 
 
 
 
1For Statement of Objects and Reasons, see Gaz. of P., 1975, Ext., Pt. III, p.591. 
2Subs. by the Finance Act, 1996 (9 of 1996) s. 9, for “wife”. 
 
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(iii)  in relation to official cars and aircraft, includes the pay and allowances 
of chauffeurs, pilots  and oth er establishment and the  provision of oil 
and petrol; 
 
(f)  “official cars”, “railway saloons”, “rivercraft” and “aircraft” mean such cars, 
railway saloons, rivercraft and aircraft, if any, as are from time to time 
provided for use by the Prime Minister; 
 
(g)  “official residence” means the house specified in the First Schedule and such 
other premises in Pakistan as the Prime Minister may use as his official 
residence, and includes the staff quarters and other buildings appurtenant 
thereto and the gardens thereof; 
 
(h)  “prescribed” means prescribed by rules to be made by the government; 
 
(i)  “year” means a year commencing on the first day of July and ending on the 
thirtieth day of June next following; and 
 
(j)  other words and expressions used in this Act and not defined shall have the 
meanings assigned to them in the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of 
Pakistan or the Fundamental and Supplementary Rules. 
 
*3. Salary. The salary to be paid to the Prime Minister shall be 1[fifty six thousand] rupees 
per mensem. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
1Subs. by Ord. XXI of 02, s.2. 
* See the relevant  notification for latest figures/information  
 
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4. Equipment allowance. The Prime Minister may, on his assumption of office as such, 
draw 1[twenty thousand] rupees as an allowance for equipping himself: 
 
Provided that, during the ten years immediately preceding the assumption of that office he 
had not drawn an allowance for the same purpose upon election or appointment to the office of 
President, Prime Minister, Chairman, Speaker, Federal Minister, Governor or Minister of State or a 
diplomatic office. 
 
5. Allowances on taking up and laying down the office.— (1) The Prime Minister shall be 
entitled to claim actual expenses to the extent mentioned below for the journey from his ordinary 
place of residence to the seat of Government on taking up office and from the seat of Government to 
his ordinary place of residence on laying down office:— 
 
(a)  the actual travelling expenses for himself and his family; 
 
(b)  the cost of transporting personal servants, not exceeding three, by the lowest 
class of accommodation; and 
 
(c)  the cost of transporting household effects, not exceeding one hundred and 
twenty maunds, by goods train, steamer or other craft, excluding aircraft, and 
his personal car, if any. 
 
(2) No claim shall lie for any travel or transportation not performed within six months 
of the date of assuming or laying down office, as the case may be. 
 
6. Official residence, railway saloons, rivercraft, aircraft and official cars.—(1) 
Throughout his term of office, the Prime Minister shall be entitled without payment of rent or hire 
to the use of his official residence, and of the railway saloons, rivercraft, aircraft and official cars, 
and no charge shall fall on him personally in respect of the maintenance thereof: 
 
Provided that the Prime Minister shall not, except when proceeding on or returning from 
leave, be entitled to the use of the railway saloons, rivercraft, aircraft or official cars during any 
period for which he is on leave. 
 
(2) The provisions of sub-section (1) shall also apply to the family of the Prime 
Minister. 
 
(3) The Prime Minister may requisition a special railway train for journeys on official duty. 
 
7. Discretionary grant, sumptuary allowance and other allowances. There shall be paid 
in each year to the Prime Minister— 
 
(a)  an allowance for expenses connected with the purposes specified in the 
Second Schedule, not exceeding the maximum amounts specified in that 
Schedule: 
 
 
 
 
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1Subs. by the Finance Act, 1996 (9 of 1996) s. 9. for “five thousand”. 
 
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Provided that the Prime Minister may, without exceeding the maximum specified in column 7 
of the aforesaid Schedule, reappropriate, whenever necessary, from one sub-head in that Schedule to 
any other sub- head therein except to or from the sub-heads relating to discretionary grant and 
sumptuary allowance; 
 
(b)  an allowance for expenses connected with improvements in and maintenance 
of the official residence and maintenance of the furniture and furnishings 
thereof, not exceeding the maximum amounts specified in the Third Schedule: 
 
Provided that the Prime Minister may, without exceeding the 
maximum specified in column 5 of the aforesaid Schedule, reappropriate, 
whenever necessary from one Sub-head in that Schedule to another subhead 
therein 1[;] 
 
2[(c)  the actual charges for electricity and gas consumption.] 
 
8. Payment of further amounts. There shall be paid from time to time to the Prime Minister 
such further amounts necessary to enable him to discharge conveniently and with dignity the duties 
of his office as the Prime Minister may by general or special order authorise, and any such 
order may be given retrospective effect whenever necessary. 
 
9. Payment on account of deferred pay, etc. of officers. Nothing in this Act shall apply to 
any payment on account of the deferred pay, leave salaries, allowances, cost of passage or 
increments due to any officer provision for whose pay is made in the Second Schedule, and the 
amounts of such payment shall be in addition to the maximum amounts specified in that Schedule. 
 
10. Amounts to be included in estimates of expenditure. The Prime Minister may, subject 
to any general or special order made by him, include the amounts in any year in the estimates of 
expenditure for the purpose of giving effect to the provisions of this Act, and such amounts shall be 
charged upon and paid out of the Federal Consolidated Fund. 
 
11. Compensation in case of air accident. (1) If the Prime Minister, while travelling by 
air on official duty, by any flight scheduled or un-scheduled (including flight in a Government-
owned aircraft of any type), dies or receives an injury as a result of an accident, the Government 
shall pay to the person or persons referred to in sub-section (2) a sum of 3[one million] rupees in the 
case of death, and an amount to be determined by the Government having regard to scales of 
compensation applied by insurance companies in like cases, in the case of an injury. 
 
(2) The compensation shall be payable, in the case of injury, to the Prime Minister, and, in 
the case of death, to such member or members of his family, or, if there be no such member, such 
other person or persons as may be nominated, by him, and in the absence of such nomination to his 
heirs. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
1Subs. by the Finance Act, 1996 (9 of 1996) s. 9, for full-stop. 
2New clause (c) added ibid., s. 9. 
3Subs. by the Finance Act, 1996 (9 of 1996) s. 9. for “two lakh and fifty thousand”. 
 
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(3) A nomination under sub-section (2) may be made, and may also be revoked or altered, by 
a notice in writing signed by the Prime Minister and addressed to the Accountant General, Pakistan 
Revenues. 
 
12. Leave.— (1) The Prime Minister may avail himself of leave of absence during his term of 
office, at any one time or from time to time, for urgent reasons of health or private affairs, for a 
period not exceeding three months in the aggregate. 
 
(2) The leave allowance of the Prime Minister shall be 1[fifty six thousand] rupees per 
mensem. 
 
13. Medical facilities. The Prime Minister and the family of the Prime Minister shall be 
entitled to medical facilities in accordance with the Special Medical Attendance Rules: 
 
Provided that he and his family shall ordinarily be entitled to receive medical treatment at his 
residence: 
 
Provided further that the Prime Minister may, if so advised by his physician, receive medical 
treatment abroad or consult a foreigner or a physician other than his own and receive such 
other treatment as may be prescribed. 
 
14. Customs duties or sales tax not leviable on certain articles.—(1) No custom- duties or 
sales tax shall be levied on the following articles if imported or purchased out of bond by the Prime 
Minister on appointment or during his tenure of office, namely:— 
 
(a)  articles for the personal use, wear or consumption of the Prime Minister or 
any member of his family provided that the cost of such articles shall not 
exceed 2[two hundred thousand] rupees per annum ; 
 
3*  *  *  *  *  *  *  
 
(c)  foodstuffs and tobacco for the Prime Minister, members of his family and his 
guests, whether official or not; 
 
(d) articles for furnishing of the Prime Minister's official residence; and 
 
(e)  official cars, rivercraft, or aircraft. 
 
(2) No custom-duties or sales tax shall be levied on tobacco imported by manufacturers in 
Pakistan for the manufacture of cigarettes, and no excise duty shall be levied on indigenous 
tobacco used in Pakistan in the manufacture of cigarettes and on cigarettes manufactured in Pakistan, 
when such cigarettes are for consumption by the Prime Minister, members of his family or the guests 
referred to in clause (c) of sub-section (1). 
 
 
 
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1Subs. by Ord. XXI of 02, s.3. 
2Subs. by the Finance Act, 1996 (9 of 1996) s. 9. for “fifty thousand”. 
3Clause (b) omitted by the Prime Minister's Salary, Allowances and Privileges (Amdt.) Act 1997, (30 of 1997) s. 2, which was previously subs. by Act   
9 of 1996, s.7. 
 
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(3) No excise duty shall be levied on indigenous petrol and petroleum products when such 
petrol or petroleum products are for use in the official cars, rivercraft and aircraft. 
 
15. Provident Fund. The Prime Minister may, at his option, become a subscriber to the 
General Provident Fund and, if he so opts, he shall subscribe to the Fund as a compulsory subscriber 
in accordance with the General Provident Fund (Central Services) Rules. 
 
16. Act to have effect subject to instructions etc. This Act shall have effect subject to such 
instructions, rules, exceptions, further concessions or easements as the Government may from time to 
time prescribe or grant. 
 
116A. Increase in Emoluments. The salary, allowances and privileges of the Prime Minister 
shall automatically be revised alongwith the revision of the emoluments of the civil servants.] 
 
2[17. Security. Every person who has held the office of the Prime Minister under Clause (4) 
of Article 91 of the Constitution shall be entitled for life to the suitable security, which the Federal 
Government shall, by notification in official Gazette, specify and make the required arrangements 
including services of personnel, vehicle or vehicles and allied matters.] 
 
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FIRST SCHEDULE  
 
(See section 2(g)]  
 
OFFICIAL RESIDENCE 
3[The Prime Minister's House, Islamabad] 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
1New section 16A ins. by Act 9 of 1996, s. 9. 
2Added by Act XVII of 2012, s.7, dated 1-7-2012. 
3Subs. ibid., s. 9 for “The Prime Minister's House, Rawalpindi.”  
 
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SECOND SCHEDULE 
 
[See section 7(a)] 
Maximum yearly amounts for expenditure in respect of certain matters. 
 
Discretionary 
Grant 
Sumptuary 
Allowance 
Staff 
including 
other charges 
Contract 
Allowance 
Official 
conveyance 
including 
motor cars 
and their 
replacement 
Tour 
expanses 
Total 
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 
Rs. 
1[1,000,000 
Rs. 
600,000 
Rs. 
2,2500,000 
Rs. 
1,500,000 
Rs. 
750,000 
Rs. 
750,000 
Rs. 
7,100,000] 
 
 
2Notes:(i)  The amount of discretionary grant shall be replenished on its utilistion as a revolving 
fund. 
 
(ii)  Sumptuary allowance is exclusive of the expenditure on national celebrations, 
provision for which is made under “Contract Allowance.”] 
 
3[“THIRD SCHEDULE” 
 
[See section 7(b)] 
 
Maximum yearly amounts for improvement and maintenance of official residence. 
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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1Subs. by the Finance Act, 1996 (9 of 1996) s. 9, for figures “4,00,000” “2,00,000” “15,50,000”, “6,50,000”, “3,25,000”, “4,00,000” and 
“35,25,000”. 
2Subs. ibid., for ''Note”. 
3Subs. ibid., for THIRD SCHEDULE. 
Improvement, repairs and maintenance of 
residence including maintenance and 
replenishment of furniture 
Rates, 
taxes and Water 
 
Total 
 
(1) (2) (3) 
Rs. 1,200,000 Rs. 
150,000 
Rs. 
1,350,000.]