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THE
CONTENTS
1. Short
title and commencement...................................... 65
2. Definitions................................................................... 65
3. Appointment
and term of office.................................... 66
4. Salary......................................................................... 66
5. Sumptuary
Allowance.................................................. 66
6. Transport.................................................................... 66
7. Official
residence......................................................... 66
8. Travelling
Allowance................................................... 67
9. Form
of Certificate...................................................... 69
10. Additional travelling allowance...................................... 69
11. Compensation in case of air accident............................. 69
12. Daily Allowance.......................................................... 70
13. Controlling Officer....................................................... 70
14. Travelling allowance for tour abroad............................. 70
15. Medical facilities.......................................................... 70
16. Leave......................................................................... 70
17. Personal Staff.............................................................. 71
18. General....................................................................... 71
19. Telephone................................................................... 71
20. Power to make rules.................................................... 72
[1]THE
(Pb. Ord. LXXVII of 2002)
[
An Ordinance to provide for appointment, salary, allowances and
privileges of Advisors to the Chief Minister of the
Preamble.–
Whereas it is expedient to
provide for appointment, salary, allowances and privileges of Advisors 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 Advisors
(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) “Advisor”
means a person appointed as Advisor to the Chief Minister under this Ordinance;
(b) “Chief
Minister” means the Chief Minister of the
(c) “family”
means the wife and children residing with and wholly dependent upon the
Advisor;
(d) “Government” means the Government of the
(e) “maintenance”
in relation to a residence includes the payment of local rates, tax and the
provision of electricity, water and gas;
(f) “official residence” means the house reserved
from time to time for residence by an Advisor and includes out houses and
gardens appurtenant
thereto; and
(g) “prescribed”
means prescribed by rules framed under this Ordinance.
3. Appointment
and term of office.– (1)
The Chief Minister may appoint not more than five Advisors who shall hold
office during the pleasure of the Chief Minister.
(2) An Advisor shall perform such functions as may
be assigned to him by the Chief Minister.
4. Salary.–
The salary of an Advisor
shall be thirty thousand rupees per month.
5. Sumptuary allowance.– An Advisor shall be entitled to get four thousand rupees per month as
sumptuary allowance.
6. Transport.– An Advisor 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 an Advisor who
is removed from
his office on the ground of misconduct.
7. Official
residence.– (1) An Advisor
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, an Advisor 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 an Advisor chooses to reside–
(i) in his own house; or
(ii) in a rented house occupied by him before his
appointment as an Advisor;
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 an Advisor travelling on official
duty shall be treated as a first grade officer.
(2) An Advisor 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 an Advisor shall purchase return air ticket.
(4) An Advisor, 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 traveling
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) An Advisor 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
an Advisor travels on duty, in the 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 an
Advisor 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, an Advisor 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 an
Advisor 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 an Advisor,
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 Advisor 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 Advisor and
addressed to the
Accountant General,
12. Daily
allowance.– An Advisor
shall, while on tour 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 an Advisor.
14. Travelling
allowance for tour abroad.– An
Advisor travelling on official business outside
15. Medical facilities.– An
Advisor shall be entitled to medical facilities in terms of Special Medical
Attendance Rules, 1950.
16. Leave.–
(a) The
Chief Minister may grant, to an Advisor 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 an Advisor shall be the same as his salary.
17. Personal
Staff.– An Advisor, except
while on leave, shall be entitled to have such personal staff as may be
sanctioned from time to time by Government.
18. General.– (1) All reasonable precautions shall be taken to
see that the official residence, transport and furniture provided to an Advisor
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 an Advisor 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
Advisor or to a person authorized by him in writing according to
an inventory
to be drawn up and signed by such officer.
(4) When an Advisor 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.–
An Advisor 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 eight 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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