Presidential Emoluments Act

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REPUBLIC OF ZAMBIA
THE PRESIDENTIAL EMOLUMENTS ACT
CHAPTER 261 OF THE LAWS OF ZAMBIA
CHAPTER 261 THE PRESIDENTIAL EMOLUMENTS ACT
THE PRESIDENTIAL EMOLUMENTS ACT
1. Short Title
2. Salary and allowance
3. Gratuity
CHAPTER 261
PRESIDENTIAL EMOLUMENTS
An Act to repeal and replace the Presidential Emoluments Act; to provide for the
revised salary, allowance and gratuity payable to the holder of the office of
President; and to provide for matters connected with or incidental to the
foregoing.
[6th March, 1981]
Act
2 of 1981
30 of 1985
21 of 1987
35 of 1988
20 of 1989
3 of 1991
30 of 1992
45 of 1994
26 of 1996
18 of 1997
1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Presidential Emoluments Act. Short title
2. The President shall be paid-
(a) a salary calculated at the annual rate of K6,161,963; and
(b) a special annual allowance of K4,018,269.
(As amended by Act No. 18 of 1997)
Salary and allowance

calculated at the annual rate of K6,161,963; and
(b) a special annual allowance of K4,018,269.
(As amended by Act No. 18 of 1997)
Salary and allowance

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3. A person who has held the office of President for at least three years shall, upon
the expiration of his term of office or upon his ceasing to be President, be paid a gratuity
equal to twenty-five per centum of the aggregate amount of emoluments paid or payable
to him in respect of the period spent in office:
Gratuity
Provided that where a person who holds office of President ceases to hold office-
(a) by reason of his death; or
(b) when a new President assumes office after an election following the
dissolution of Parliament before its full term;
that person shall be deemed to have served as President for the specified period of three
years for the purpose of this section.
(As amended by Act No. 3 of 1991)