REMUNERATION OF A DEPUTY SPEAKER

The Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mr Wong Kan Seng): Mr Speaker, Sir, I beg to move the motion* standing in my name as it appears on item 11 in the Order Paper.

*The motion reads as follows:

That, pursuant to Article 42 of the Constitution of the Republic of Singapore, with effect from 1st April, 1989, each Deputy Speaker shall be paid a basic allowance of $1,800 per month and all such monthly variable component, 13th-month non-pensionable annual allowance and non-pensionable variable bonus as would be payable to office-holding Members of Parliament.

Clause 3, Article 42, of the Singapore Constitution also provides that a Deputy Speaker shall be paid such salary or allowance as Parliament may from time to time determine. The Deputy Speakers are now receiving a basic allowance of $1,500 per month. With the revision of salaries and allowances for the Speaker, office-holders and other statutory appointments and MPs, it is proposed that our two Deputy Speakers should also have their allowances revised to $1,800 per month.

Sir, I beg to move.

Question put, and agreed to.

That, pursuant to Article 42 of the Constitution of the Republic of Singapore, with effect from 1st April, 1989, each Deputy Speaker shall be paid a basic allowance of $1,800 per month and all such monthly variable component, 13th-month non-pensionable annual allowance and non-pensionable variable bonus as would be payable to office-holding Members of Parliament.