Motor Cycle or Scooter

245-B. A servant may purchase a motor cycle scooter with an advance granted to him for the purchase of a motor-car, if he so desires, subject to the conditions regulating the grant of advances for the purchase of motor cycle scooter laid down in paragraph 246.

246. The Government, a Head of Department, a Secretary to Government and a District and Sessions Judge may sanction an advance to a Government servant for the purchase of a motor-cycle or scooter subject to the following conditions :

(2) That the advance is given only when the Government consider that it is for the convenient transaction of Government business that the Government servant should use a motor-cycle in the discharge of his duties.

(4) That the recovery is made by deducting monthly instalments equal to one-seventy second part of the advance actually drawn and utilized on the purchase of a motor-cycle or scooter from the pay bill of the Government servant concerned commencing with the first issue of pay after the advance is drawn, and that the amount of interest calculated in accordance with note 2 to paragraph 242 is recovered as laid down in paragraph 244-D. The amount of the advance to be recovered monthly should be fixed in whole rupees except in the case of the last instalment when the remaining balance including any fraction of a rupee should be recovered.

(5) That, except when a Government servant proceeds on leave other than leave on average pay not exceeding four months or retires from the service of the Government or is transferred to a post, the duties of which do not render the possession of a motor-cycle necessary, the previous sanction of the Government is necessary to the sale by him of the vehicle purchased with the aid of an advance which with interest accrued in accordance with note 2 to paragraph 242 has not been fully repaid. If a Government servant wishes to transfer such a vehicle to another Government servant who performs duties of a kind that renders the possession of the vehicle necessary, the Government may permit the transfer of the liability attaching to the vehicle to the latter Government servant, provided that he records a declaration that he is aware that the vehicle transferred to him remains subject to the mortgage bond and that he is bound by its terms and provisions.

N.B.—In the case of Government servants recruited to the State, specialist and subordinate services on or after January 1, 1936, the term "leave on average pay not exceeding four months’’ occurring in this rule shall be taken to mean "earned leave not exceeding 120 days.’

(6) That in all cases in which a vehicle is sold before the advance received for its purchase from the Government with interest accrued in accordance with note 2 to paragraph 242 has been fully repaid, the sale-proceeds must be applied, so far as may be necessary, towards the repayment of such outstanding balance, and if the vehicle is sold on the instalment system, the borrowing Government servant must repay, in full the outstanding balance on receipt by him of the first instalment of the price. Provided that when the vehicle is sold only in order that another vehicle may be purchased, the Government may permit a Government servant to apply the sale-proceeds towards such purchase, subject to the following conditions :

(a) the amount outstanding shall not be permitted to exceed the cost of the new vehicle;

(b) the amount outstanding shall continue to be repaid at the rate previously fixed;

(c) the new vehicle must be insured and mortgaged to the Government as required by these rules.

NOTE—The last sentence of paragraph 245-A and paragraphs 245-E, 245-F and 245-J to 245-N apply to this paragraph also.