96. The Speaker or the Deputy Speaker not to preside while a
resolution for his removal from office is under consideration.—(1) At any
sitting of the House of the People, while any resolution for the removal of the
Speaker from his office is under consideration, the Speaker, or while any
resolution for the removal of the Deputy Speaker from his office is under
consideration, the Deputy Speaker, shall not, though he is present, preside, and
the provisions of clause (2) of article 95 shall apply in relation to every such
sitting as they apply in relation to a sitting from which the Speaker, or, as the
case may be, the Deputy Speaker, is absent.
(2) The Speaker shall have the right to speak in, and otherwise to take
part in the proceedings of, the House of the People while any resolution for his
removal from office is under consideration in the House and shall,
notwithstanding anything in article 100, be entitled to vote only in the first
instance on such resolution or on any other matter during such proceedings but
not in the case of an equality of votes.
97. Salaries and allowances of the Chairman and Deputy Chairman
and the Speaker and Deputy Speaker.—There shall be paid to the Chairman
and the Deputy Chairman of the Council of States, and to the Speaker and the
Deputy Speaker of the House of the People, such salaries and allowances as may
be respectively fixed by Parliament by law and, until provision in that behalf is so
made, such salaries and allowances as are specified in the Second Schedule.
98. Secretariat of Parliament.—(1) Each House of Parliament shall
have a separate secretarial staff:
Provided that nothing in this clause shall be construed as preventing the
creation of posts common to both Houses of Parliament.
(2) Parliament may by law regulate the recruitment, and the conditions
of service of persons appointed, to the secretarial staff of either House of
Parliament.
(3) Until provision is made by Parliament under clause (2), the President
may, after consultation with the Speaker of the House of the People or the
Chairman of the Council of States, as the case may be, make rules regulating
the recruitment, and the conditions of service of persons appointed, to the
secretarial staff of the House of the People or the Council of States, and any
rules so made shall have effect subject to the provisions of any law made under
the said clause.
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