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THE
CONTENTS
1. Short
title and commencement...................................... 77
2. Definitions................................................................... 78
3. Appointment
and term of office.................................... 78
4. Salary......................................................................... 78
5. Sumptuary
Allowance.................................................. 78
6. Transport.................................................................... 78
7. Official
residence......................................................... 79
8. Travelling
Allowance................................................... 79
9. Form
of Certificate...................................................... 81
10. Additional travelling allowance...................................... 81
11. Compensation in case of air accident............................. 81
12. Daily allowance........................................................... 82
13. Controlling Officer....................................................... 82
14. Travelling allowance for tour abroad............................. 82
15. Medical facilities.......................................................... 82
16. Leave......................................................................... 83
17. Personal Staff.............................................................. 83
18. General....................................................................... 83
19. Telephone................................................................... 83
20. Power to make rules.................................................... 84
[1]THE
(Pb. Ord. LXXVI of 2002)
[
An
Ordinance to provide for appointment, salary, allowances and privileges of
Special Assistants to the Chief Minister of the
Preamble.–
Whereas it is expedient to
provide for appointment, salary, allowances and privileges of Special
Assistants to the Chief Minister
of the
And whereas the Provincial Assembly of the
And whereas under Article 4 of the Provisional
Constitution (Amendment) Order No.9 of 1999, as amended by the Chief
Executive’s Order No.11 of
2000, the Governor of a Province may issue and
promulgate an Ordinance;
Now,
therefore, in exercise of
the aforesaid powers and all other powers enabling him in that behalf, the
Governor of the Punjab is pleased to make
and promulgate the following
Ordinance:-
1. Short title and
commencement.– (1) This Ordinance may be called the Punjab Special
Assistants (Salary, Allowances and Privileges) Ordinance, 2002.
(2) It shall come into force at once.
2. Definitions.– In this Ordinance, unless the subject or
context otherwise requires, the following expressions shall have the meanings
hereby assigned
to them respectively–
(a) “Chief
Minister” means the Chief Minister of the
(b) “family”
means the wife and children residing with and wholly dependent upon the Special
Assistant;
(c) “Government” means the Government of the
(d) “maintenance”
in relation to a residence includes the payment of local rates, tax and the provision
of electricity, water and gas;
(e) “official residence” means the house reserved
from time to time for residence by a Special Assistant and includes out houses
and gardens
appurtenant thereto;
(f) “prescribed”
means prescribed by rules framed under this Ordinance; and
(g) “Special
Assistant” means a person appointed as Special Assistant to the Chief Minister
under this Ordinance.
3. Appointment and term of office.– (1) The Chief Minister
may appoint not more than five Special Assistants who shall hold office during
the pleasure of the Chief Minister.
(2) A Special Assistant shall perform such
functions as may be assigned to him by the Chief Minister.
4. Salary.–
The salary of a Special
Assistant shall be thirty five thousand rupees per month.
5. Sumptuary
allowance.– A Special
Assistant shall be entitled to get four thousand rupees per month as sumptuary
allowance.
6. Transport.– A Special
Assistant to the Chief Minister shall be entitled to the use of one official
car throughout his term of office and for a
period of fifteen days immediately
thereafter; provided that the Chief Minister may withhold this facility to a
Special Assistant
who is removed from his office on the ground of misconduct.
7. Official
residence.– (1) A Special
Assistant shall be entitled, without payment of rent, to the use of an official
residence including accommodation on
tour throughout his term of office, and
for a period of fifteen days immediately thereafter, and the charges for its
maintenance
including the electricity and gas charges shall be borne by
Government. The residence shall be furnished by Government at a cost
not
exceeding one hundred thousand rupees.
(2) If at the time of entering upon office, an
official residence is not available, a Special Assistant shall, until such
residence is
provided by Government, be paid the actual expenditure incurred by
him on furnished accommodation for himself and his family, subject
to a maximum
of twenty thousand rupees per month.
(3) Where a Special Assistant chooses to reside:-
(i) in his own house; or
(ii) in a rented house occupied by him before his
appointment as a Special Assistant;
he may be paid
a monthly sum of twenty thousand rupees in lieu of the official furnished
accommodation and to cover all expenses on
its maintenance. The charges for
consumption of electricity and gas in respect of the said house shall be borne
by Government.
8. Travelling allowance.–
(1) Subject to the provisions made hereafter a Special Assistant travelling on
official duty shall be treated as a first grade officer.
(2) A Special Assistant may, if the public
interest so demands travel by air in which case he shall be entitled to–
(a) business
class airfare paid for himself;
(b) cost
of transporting personal luggage up to forty five kilograms, inclusive of the
free allowance given by the air company;
(c) take with himself the spouse when travelling
by a commercial aeroplane; and
(d) claim the actual premium paid for insuring
himself for the air journey for an amount not exceeding one lac rupees.
(3) Wherever
possible a Special Assistant shall purchase return air ticket.
(4) A Special Assistant, when travelling on duty
by rail in
(a) requisition
at the cost of Government -
(i) an ordinary first-cum-second class carriage
or a ‘B’ class tourist car or an ‘A’ class tourist car, if a ‘B’ class tourist
car is
not available; or
(ii) if the vehicles specified at (i) above are
not available, or are not desired an ordinary four berthed first class
compartment or a
two berthed air-conditioned (coupe) compartment;
(b) take with himself in the reserved accommodation
without payment of any fair, his family members not exceeding four when
travelling
in a requisitioned railway compartment or saloon;
(c) take
with himself up to two personal servants by the lowest class of accommodation
available; and
(d) the carriage of personal luggage up to one
hundred and twenty kilograms when travelling by a railway compartment or up to
two hundred
and forty kilograms when travelling by a requisitioned
railway saloon.
(5) A Special Assistant reserving accommodation in the railway shall be
required before beginning the journey, to have the number and
other details of
the tickets purchased for the persons travelling with him in the reserved
accommodation entered in the requisition
form by the station master of the
station from where the journey is to commence.
(6) When
a Special Assistant travels on duty, in public interest, by road between places
connected by Railway and chooses to forego the
privileges granted under
sub-section (4), he may, where the journey is performed in a vehicle not owned
or maintained by Government,
draw -
(a) travelling allowance at the rate of three
rupees per kilometer for his own journey by road, and
(b) actual expenses of transport of -
(i) two private servants; and
(ii) all his personal luggage including stores
carried for consumption on tour.
9. Form
of Certificate.– Every
claim by a Special Assistant for travelling allowance or daily allowance shall
be supported by a written certificate in the
following form signed by him:-
“Certified that the amount has not been
claimed by me in any other bill or drawn by me from any other source.”
10. Additional travelling
allowance.– Notwithstanding anything contained in section 8, a
Special Assistant shall also be entitled to a sum of forty thousand
rupees per annum for travel by him or his family within
Provided that, where a person
becomes a Special Assistant during the course of the year, the value of cash
with which he is provided
during that year shall not exceed the value which
bears the same proportion to forty thousand rupees as the un-expired portion of
the year bears to a year.
11. Compensation in case of air accident.– (1) If a Special
Assistant, while travelling by air, on official duty, by any flight, scheduled
or unscheduled (including flight in
a Government owned aircraft of any type),
dies or receives an injury as a result of an accident, Government shall pay to
the persons
referred to in sub-section (2), a sum of three hundred thousand
rupees, in case of death, and an amount to be determined by Government
having
regard to scales of compensation applied by insurance companies in like cases,
in case of injury.
(2) The compensation
shall be payable in case of injury to the Special Assistant and in case of
death, to such member or members of his
family, or if there be no such member,
any other person or persons as may be nominated by him in this behalf, or, in
the absence
of such nomination, to his heirs:
Provided
that the nominee shall distribute the amount received by him among the heirs of
the deceased.
(3) A nomination under
sub-section (2) may be made, revoked or altered by a notice in writing signed
by the Special Assistant and addressed
to the Accountant General,
12. Daily
allowance.– A Special
Assistant, while on tour, shall be entitled to receive a daily allowance at the
rate of five hundred and fifty rupees per
day:
Provided that where the duration of tour is
less than eight hours, one half daily allowance shall be admissible.
13. Controlling
Officer.– The Minister
Finance shall, for purposes of travelling allowances, be the Controlling
Officer of a Special Assistant.
14. Travelling
allowance for tour abroad.– A
Special Assistant travelling on official business outside
15. Medical facilities.– A
Special Assistant shall be entitled to medical facilities in terms of Special
Medical Attendance Rules, 1950.
16. Leave.–
(a) The
Chief Minister may grant, to a Special Assistant during his term of office at
any one time or from time to time, leave of absence,
for urgent reasons of
health or private affairs, for a period not exceeding three months in the
aggregate.
(b) The
leave allowance of a Special Assistant shall be the same as his salary.
17. Personal
Staff.– A Special
Assistant, except while on leave, shall be entitled to have such personal staff
as may be sanctioned by Government.
18. General.– (1) All reasonable precautions shall be taken to
see that the official residence, transport and furniture provided to a Special
Assistant
by Government are used with the same care with which a person’s own
property is taken care of.
(2) All furniture and furnishing provided in an
official residence shall be marked by the Buildings Department,
(3) When a Special Assistant occupies an official
residence, it shall be the duty of the officer concerned of the said Department
to hand
over charge of the furniture and furnishings in that residence to the
Special Assistant or to a person authorized by him in writing
according to an
inventory to be drawn up and signed by such officer.
(4) When a Special
Assistant is about to vacate the official residence, he shall inform the
officer concerned of the said Department and
shall arrange that the furniture
and furnishings of the official residence are handed over to that officer
according to an inventory
to be drawn up and signed.
19. Telephone.–
A Special Assistant shall
be entitled to one official telephone at office and one official telephone at
the residence, both for official
and private purposes:
Provided
that the liability of Government in respect of the telephone installed at the
residence shall not exceed an amount equal
to ten thousand local calls.
20. Power
to make rules.– Government
may, by notification in the official Gazette, make rules for carrying out the
purposes of this Ordinance.
[1]Promulgated by the Governor
of the
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