Revocation of Privileges Act, 1992

The Revocation of Privileges Act, 1992 (Act VIII of 1992) cancels a specific set of pay-and-privilege amendment bills that the National Assembly itself decided to withdraw. Section 1 says it came into force at once and is deemed to have taken effect retroactively from 3 May 1992 — the date the underlying bills were passed.

The preamble explains that the National Assembly had passed several bills on 3 May 1992 increasing salaries, allowances, and privileges for various offices, but then unanimously resolved on 7 May 1992 to withdraw them.

Section 2 is the operative provision: notwithstanding any other law or rule, six specifically named bills passed on 3 May 1992 — the President's Salary, Allowances and Privileges (Amendment) Bill; the Prime Minister's equivalent; the Federal Ministers and Ministers of State Salaries, Allowances and Privileges (Amendment) Bill; the Members of Parliament (Salaries and Allowances) (Amendment) Bill; the Chairman and Speaker (Salaries, Allowances and Privileges) (Amendment) Bill; and the Deputy Chairman and Deputy Speaker equivalent — are withdrawn, revoked, and annulled, and deemed to have always been so, regardless of whether they had been sent to the President for assent or had already become Acts of Parliament by lapse of time.

This is a historical, self-contained corrective statute addressing a single episode in 1992 where Parliament reversed its own pay-raise legislation; it has no ongoing regulatory function today.