Supreme Court Judges (Salaries and Conditions of Service) Act,1958
Section 23. Facilities for rent free houses and other conditions of service
(1) Every Judge shall be entitled without payment of rent to the use of an official residence in accordance with such ‘rules as may, from time to time be made in this behalf.
1(1A) Where a Judge does not avail himself of the use of an official residence, he may be paid every month an allowance of 2[“equivalent to an amount of thirty per cent of the salary plus thirty per cent of the dearness pay”].
(2) Every Judge and the members of his family shall be entitled to such facilities for medical treatment and for accommodation in hospitals as may, from time to time, be prescribed.
(3) The conditions of service of a Judge for which no express provision has been made in this Act shall be such as may be determined by rules made under this Act.
3(4) Sub-sections (1), (2) and (3) shall be deemed to have come into force on the 26th day of January. 1950 and sub-section (1-A) shall be deemed to have come into force on the 9th day of May,1986 and any rule made under any of the said sub-sections may be made so as to be retrospective to any date not earlier than the commencement of the respective sub-section.”]
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1. Inserted vide The Supreme Court Judges (Conditions of Service) Amendment Act,1993 (72 Of 1993), Dt. 26th December,1993 Published in Received the assent of the President on December 26. 1993 and published in the Gazette of India. Extra Part II. Section 1, dated 27th December. 1993. pp. 1-2, SI. No. 123
2. Substituted for “ten thousand rupees” by Act No. 46 of 2005 w.e.f. 15-9-2005.
3. Substituted for ” (4) This section shall be deemed to have come into force on the 26th day of January,1950 and any rule made under this section may be made so as to be retrospective to any date not earlier than the commencement of this section. “, vide The Supreme Court Judges (Conditions of Service) Amendment Act,1993 (72 Of 1993), Dt. 26th December,1993 Published in Received the assent of the President on December 26. 1993 and published in the Gazette of India. Extra., Part II. Section 1, dated 27th December. 1993. pp. 1-2, SI No. 123
Supreme Court Judges (Salaries and Conditions of Service) Act,1958
