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Travelling allowances. – (1) There shall be paid travelling allowance to each member in respect of every journey performed by him for the purpose of attending a session of the Assembly or a meeting of a committee or for the purpose of attending to any other business connected with his duties as a Member, from his usual place of residence to the place where the session or the meeting is to be held or the other business is to be transacted and for the return journey from such place to his usual place of residence such amount as would be admissible in respect of journeys on tour to a *[Group ‘A’ Officer of the highest grade] serving in connection with administration of the Union Territory of Puducherry. * Amended vide Act No.6 of 2010. This Act has come into force w.e.f 09.02.2010 421 (2) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1), a Member who performs journey by road between places connected by rail or steamer either wholly or in part, may draw the road mileage at the rates referred to in sub-section (1) in place of the travelling allowance which would have been admissible to him if he had travelled by rail or steamer as the case may be: Provided that the total amount of travelling allowance drawn by such member of the entire journey shall not exceed the amount which would have been admissible to him, had he performed such journey by rail or steamer, as the case may be. (3) A Member shall be entitled to an advance of travelling allowance in respect of any journey to be performed by him, in connection with his duties as a Member, to a place outside the Puducherry region of the Union Territory of Puducherry and the return journey therefrom, on the same terms and conditions as are applicable to the grant of an advance to a *[Group ‘A’ Officer of the highest grade], referred to in sub-section (1), in respect of journeys on tour: Provided that where, during the journey aforesaid, such Member performs a journey to a place within the Puducherry region of the Union Territory of Puducherry for attending to any other business connected with his duties as a Member, no advance of travelling allowance shall be admissible to such Member in respect of the journey to a place within the Puducherry regions and the return journey therefrom.