Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
(1) Each Minister shall be entitled without payment of any rent to the use throughout the term of his office and for period of fifteen days thereafter, of a residence at Lucknow which shall be furnished and maintained at public expense at the prescribed scale. [(1-A) Each Minister for whose use a residence at Lucknow has been provided under sub-section (1) shall immediately after the expiration of the period referred to in that sub-section, vacate such accommodation and an officer authorized by the State Government in this behalf may take possession of the accommodation and may for the purpose use such force as may be necessary in the circumstances. Explanation— For the purposes of this sub-section ‘Minister’ includes a person who has ceased to be a Minister and also includes a person who was given the status of a Minister.]1 (2) Where a Minister has not been provided with a residence in accordance with sub-section (1), or does not avail of the benefit of the said sub-section, he shall be entitled to a compensatory allowance at the rate of- (a) three hundred rupees per month in the case of Deputy Minister, and (b) five hundred rupees per month in any other case. [Special provisions regarding certain accom- modations 4-A (1) On and from the commencement of the Uttar Pradesh Ministers and State Legislatures, Officers and Members Amenities Laws (Amendment) Act, 1997, the State Government may, with a view to ensuring timely availability of residence to a minister under sub-section (1) of section 4 by a notified order, specify any type- VI accommodation or an accommodation in which a Minister was in occupation at any time, under the control and management of the Estate Department of the State Government, as Ministers residence and an accommodation so specified shall be allotted to a Minister only and not to any other person. (2) The State Government, or an officer authorized by it in this behalf may, if a person other than a Minister referred to in sub-section (1-A) of section 4 is in occupation of an accommodation specified as Ministers’ residence under sub- section (1) on the basis of any allotment order or otherwise, cancel the allotment order of such person if any, and by notice in writing require such person to vacate the said accommodation within fifteen days from the date of service upon him of such notice, and if such person fails to vacate the said accommodation within the said period, an officer authorized by the State Government in this behalf may take possession of the said accommodation and may for the purpose use such force as may be necessary in the circumstances.]2 Conveyances