What is Penalty for sitting and voting before making oath or affirmation under Article 99 or when not qualified or when disqualified? What is Powers, privileges, etc. of the Houses of Parliament and of the members and committees thereof? What is Salaries and allowances of members? Article 104, 105 and 106 of Constitution of India, 1949.
Penalty for sitting and voting before making oath or affirmation under Article 99 or when not qualified or when disqualified, Powers, privileges, etc. of the Houses of Parliament and of the members and committees thereof and Salaries and allowances of members are defined under Article 104, 105 and 106 of Constitution of India 1949. Provisions under these Articles are:
Article 104 of Constitution of India "Penalty for sitting and voting before making oath or affirmation under Article 99 or when not qualified or when disqualified"
If a person sits or votes as a member of either House of Parliament before he has complied with the requirements of Article 99, or when he knows that he is not qualified or that he is disqualified for membership thereof, or that he is prohibited from so doing by the provisions of any law made by Parliament, he shall be liable in respect of each day on which he so sits or votes to a penalty of five hundred rupees to be recovered as a debt due to the Union.
Article 105 of Constitution of India "Powers, privileges, etc. of the Houses of Parliament and of the members and committees thereof"
(1) Subject to the
provisions of this constitution and the rules and standing
orders regulating the procedure of Parliament, there shall
be freedom of speech in Parliament.
(2) No member of Parliament shall be liable to any
proceedings in any court in respect of anything said or any
vote given by him in Parliament or any committee thereof,
and no person shall be so liable in respect of the
publication by or under the authority of either House of
Parliament of any report, paper, votes or proceedings.
(3) In other respects, the powers, privileges and immunities
of each House of Parliament, and of the members and the
committees of each House, shall be such as may from time to
time be defined by Parliament by law, and, until so defined
shall be those of that House and of its members and
committees immediately before the coming into force of
Section 15 of the Constitution (Forty-fourth Amendment) Act
1978.
(4) The provisions of clauses (1), (2) and (3) shall apply
in relation to persons who by virtue of this constitution
have the right to speak in, and otherwise to take part in
the proceedings of, a House of Parliament or any committee
thereof as they apply in relation to members of Parliament.
Article 106 of Constitution of India "Salaries and allowances of members"
Members of either House of Parliament shall be entitled to receive such salaries and allowances as may from time to time be determined by Parliament by law and, until provision in that in that respect is so made, allowances at such rates and upon such conditions as were immediately before the commencement of this Constitution applicable in the case of members of the Constituent Assembly of the Dominion of India