Updated: Tuesday December 03, 2013/AthThulatha
Muharram 30, 1435/Mangalavara
Agrahayana 12, 1935, at 04:08:08 PM
[1][1]The
(Pb. Ord. LXXVI of 2002)
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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
[2][2][15. Medical facilities.– A Special Assistant 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 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][1]Promulgated by the Governor
of the
[2][2]Substituted by the
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