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Agrahayana 30, 1935, at 03:58:53 PM
[1][1]The
(Pb. Ord. LXXVII of 2002)
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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
[2][2][15. Medical facilities.– An Advisor shall be
entitled, for himself and for his parents, spouse, real and step sons and
daughters, wholly dependent upon him, to medical facilities admissible in terms
of the 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][1]Promulgated by the Governor
of the
[2][2]Substituted by the
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