In Sri Lanka a Member of Provincial Council (also known as Provincial Councilor), is the title given to an elected member of a provincial council.Provincial Councils (Payment of salaries and allowances)
/ref> As of 2017, there are 455 members in nine provincial councils.

Elections

All positions in a provincial council become simultaneously vacant for

election An election is a formal group decision-making process by which a population chooses an individual or multiple individuals to hold public office. Elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative democracy has opera ...

s held on a five-year cycle. If a vacancy arises at another time, due to death or resignation, then an electoral district vacancy may be filled by the second highest scoring candidate in the last election from that electoral district.

Title

Provincial council derives its traditions from the

Parliament of Sri Lanka The Parliament of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka (Sinhala: ශ්‍රී ලංකා පාර්ලිමේන්තුව ''Shri Lanka Parlimenthuwa'', Tamil: இலங்கை நாடாளுமன்றம் ''Ila� ...

, therefore its members are often referred to as The Honourable (The Hon. or Hon.) ''Name'' MPC, during their term in office.

Salaries and benefits

Salary and allowance

As per the ''Provincial Councils (Payment of Salaries and Allowances) Act, No. 37 of 1988'', a member of a Provincial Council is entitled to a salary and allowances equal to half of monthly salary and all other allowance entitled to a

Member of Parliament A member of parliament (MP) is the representative in parliament of the people who live in their electoral district. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, this term refers only to members of the lower house since upper house members o ...

. A Member of the Board of Ministers of a Province, is entitled to a salary and allowances equal a salary of a Deputy Minister.

Office expenses

They are entitle to an annual free postal facility allowance of Rs 48,000 which was increased from Rs 24,000 in 2019.

Other benefits

;Tax benefits Members claim tax exemptions on their pay and allowance as it has been deemed an

honorarium An honorarium is an ''ex gratia'' payment, i.e., a payment made, without the giver recognizing themselves as having any liability or legal obligation, to a person for his or her services in a volunteer capacity or for services for which fees are no ...

. ;Duty free verticals A member who has served for more than two and half years are entitled to import a high value luxury vehicle with without paying import duty that is normally charged under a duty free permit each term of office.Now duty free vehicles for ex-PC members
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