(This amendment shall be deemed to have come into force on March 17, 1973).

Order of the Governor regarding rule 10

Once a person is asked to produce a medical certificate of fitness for entry into Government service and has actually been examined and declared unfit, it is not open to the appointing authority to use its discretion to ignore the certificate that has been produced.

(For rules made by the Governor under this rule, see Part III of this volume, Chapter III).

11. Unless in any case it be otherwise distinctly provided, the whole time of a government servant is at the disposal of the Government, and he may be employed in any manner required by proper authority, without claim for additional remuneration, whether the services required of him are such as would ordinarily be remunerated from the revenues of the State or from a local fund or from the funds of a body, incorporated or not, which is wholly or substantially owned or controlled by the Government.

12. (a) Two or more government servants can not be appointed substantively to the same permanent post at the same time.

(b) A government servant cannot be appointed substantively, except as a temporary measure, to two or more permanent posts at the same time.

(c) A government servant cannot be appointed substantively to a post on which another government servant holds a lien.

12A. Unless in any case it be otherwise provided in these rules, a government servant on substantive appointment to any permanent post acquires a lien on that post and ceases to hold any lien previously acquired on any other post.

13. Unless his lien is suspended under rule 14 or transferred under rule 14-B, a government servant holding substantively a permanent post retains a lien on that post:

(a) while performing the duties of that post;

(b) while on foreign service, or holding a temporary post, or officiating in another post;

(c) during joining time on transfer to another post; unless he is transferred substantively to a post on lower pay, in which case his lien is transferred to the new post from the date on which he is relieved of his duties in the old post;

*(d) while on leave, except on leave granted under rule 86 or 86-A, as the case may be; and

(e) while under suspension.

Orders of Governor regarding rule 13

Government servants who are appointed as officers of the Army in India Reserve of Officers, shall retain a lien on their permanent posts under the Government during the period for which they are called to service in the Defence Department.

14. (a) The lien of a government servant on a permanent post which he holds substantively shall be suspended if he is appointed in a substantive capacity:

(1) to a tenure post, or

(2) to a permanent post outside the cadre on which he is borne, or

(3) provisionally, to a post on which another government servant would hold a lien had his lien not been suspended under this rule.

(b) The Government may, at their option, suspend the lein of a government servant on a permanent post which he holds substantively if he is deputed out of India or transferred to foreign service, or, in circumstances not covered by clause (a) of this rule, is transferred, whether in a substantive or officiating capacity, to a post in another cadre, and if in any of these cases there is reason to believe that he will remain absent from the post on which he holds a lien for a period of not less than three years.

(c) Notwithstanding anything contained in clause (a) or (b) of this rule, a government servant’s lien on a tenure post may in no circumstances be suspended. If he is appointed substantively to another permanent post, his lien on the tenure post must be terminated.

(d) If a government servant’s lien is suspended under clause (a) or (b) of this rule, the post may be filled substantively, and the government servant appointed to hold it substantively shall acquire a lien on it; provided that the arrangements shall be reversed as soon as the suspended lien revives.

NOTES—(1) This clause applies also if the post concerned is a post in a selection grade of a cadre.

(2) When a post is filled substantively under this clause, the appointment will be termed a provisional appointment; the government servant appointed will hold a provisional lien on the post; and that lien will be liable to suspension under clause (a) but not under clause (b) of this rule.

(e) A government servant’s lien which has been suspended under clause (a) of this rule shall revive as soon as he ceases to hold lien on a post of the nature specified in sub-clause (1), (2) or (3) of that clause.

(*This amendment shall come into force with effect from April 1, 1965).

(f) A government servant’s lien which has been suspended under clause (b) of this rule shall revive as soon as he ceases to be on deputation out of India, or on foreign service, or to hold a post in another cadre, provided that a suspended lien shall not revive because the government servant takes leave if there is reason to believe that he will, on return from leave, continue to be on deputation out of India, or on foreign service or to hold a post in another cadre and the total period of absence on duty will not fall short of three years, or that he will hold substantively a post of the nature specified in sub-clause (1), (2) or (3) of clause (a).

Orders of the Governor regarding rule 14

When it is known that a government servant on transfer to a post outside his cadre is due to retire on superannuation pension within three years of his transfer, his lien on the permanent post cannot be suspended.

14A. (a) A government servant’s lien on a post may in no circumstances be terminated, even with his consent, if the result will be to leave him without a lien or a suspended lien upon a permanent post.

(b) In a case covered by sub-clause (2) of clause (a) of rule 14, the suspended lien may not, except on the written request of the government servant concerned, be terminated while the government servant remains in Government service.

14B. Subject to the provisions of rule 15, the Government may transfer to another permanent post in the same cadre the lien of a government servant who is not performing the duties of the post to which the lien relates, even if that lien has been suspended.

15. (a) a government servant may be transferred from one post to another; provided that, except—

(1) on account of inefficiency or misbehaviour, or

(2) on his written request,

a government servant shall not be transferred substantively to, or, except in a case covered by rule 49, appointed to officiate in, a post carrying less pay than the pay of the permanent post on which he holds a lien, or would hold a lien had his lien not been suspended under rule 14.

(b) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in these Rules, the Governor may in the public interest transfer a government servant to a post in another cadre or to an ex-cadre post.

(c) Nothing contained in clause (a) of this rule or in clause (13) of rule 9 shall operate to prevent the retransfer of a government servant to the post on which he would hold a lien, had it not been suspended in accordance with the provisions of clause (a) of rule 14.

16. A government servant may be required to subscribe to a provident fund, a family pension fund or other similar fund in accordance with such rules as the Governor may by order prescribe.

17. (1) Subject to any exception specifically made in these rules, and to the provisions of sub-rule (2) a government servant shall begin to draw the pay and allowance attached to his tenure of a post with effect from the date when he assumes the duties of that post, and shall cease to draw them as soon as he ceases to discharge those duties.

Exception—A candidate from the Forest College, Dehra Dun, approved for appointment to the Uttar Pradesh Forest Service or to the Uttar Pradesh Subordinate Forest Service shall be allowed to draw the minimum pay of his appointment from the date following the date of his obtaining the prescribed certificate qualifying him for appointment to the service for which he has been approved and the period intervening between the date of the certificate and the date of taking over charge shall be treated as duty provided that he actually joins his appointment within ten days from the date of his certificate.

(2) The date from which a person recruited overseas shall commence to draw pay on first appointment shall be determined by the general or special orders of the authority by whom he is appointed.

Audit instructions regarding rule 17.

1. A government servant will given to draw the pay and allowances attached to his tenure of a post with effect from the date on which he assumes the duties of that post if the charge is transferred beforenoon of that date. If the charge is transferred afternoon, he commences to draw them from the following day. The rule does not-however, apply to cases in which it is the recognized practice to pay a government servant at a higher rate for more important duties performed during a part only of a day.

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Orders of the Governor regarding rule 17(2)

The date of commencement of pay of government servants recruited in the United Kingdom on behalf of the Government shall be the date of embarkation for India, subject to their proceeding from the port of disembarkation to take up their duties without avoidable delay.

NOTE 1—The phrase "without avoidable delay" refers only to delay on the part of the government servant in reporting himself for duty (either at the headquarters of the Government or at the actual place of duty as the case may be) and not to delay caused by the Government deferring the issue of his posting orders either inadvertently or deliberately. The stipulation implied by the phrase should be regarded as fulfilled if the government servant reports for the duty within the period allowed by the joining time rules with only one day for preparation at the port of disembarkation.

NOTE 2—When a government servant recruited to a service or post under the Government on or after January 1, 1936, is prevented from proceeding at once from the port of disembarkation in India to take up his appointment he should be granted in respect of the period in excess of that mentioned in the preceding note leave on medical certificate on half average or leave on private affairs on half average pay as the case may require provided such leave is admissible to him. If no such leave be admissible, he should be allowed extra-ordinary leave without pay for the period in question. For the purpose of calculating the rate of leave salary, if any, admissible during the leave, the minimum of the Government servant’s time-scale of pay ( including overseas pay) should be treated as his average pay.

18. Unless the Government, in view of the special circumstances of the case, shall otherwise determine, after five years’ continuous absence from duty elsewhere than on foreign service in India, whether with or without leave, a government servant ceases to be in Government employ.