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Appx. III-A. Grant of Honorary King's Commission
APPENDIX III-A.
RULES GOVERNING THE GRANT OF HONORARY KING’S
COMMISSIONS TO MEMBERS OF THE SUB-ASSISTANT
SURGEON BRANCH OF THE INDIAN MEDICAL
DEPARTMENT
1. The number of honorary King’s commissions to be granted will
not exceed one per cent. of the strength of the military sub-assistant
surgeons including those in civil employment.
2. Senior sub-assistant surgeons holding the rank of subedar-
major or subedar will be given the rank of lieutenant. Promotion
to the rank of captain will be made in selected cases after 3 years
full pay service in the rank of lieutenant. Rank thus conferred will
be retained on transfer to the pension establishment.
3. They will receive the same rates of pay as senior assistant
surgeons of corresponding rank in the Indian Medical Department,
viz. :—
Senior sub-assistant surgeons with rank of captain—Rs. 650
per mensem.
Senior sub-assistant surgeons with rank of lieutenant—Rs. 500
per mensem.
These rates of pay will be subject to the conditions laid down in Army
Instruction (India) No. 544 of 1920 as regards subsequent revision.
4. Sub-assistant surgeons on the active list granted honorary
K i n g ’ s c o m m i s s i o n s w i l l b e e n t i t l e d t o a n o u t f i t a l l o w a n c e n o t
exceeding Rs. 600 on the production of vouchers showing that they
have purchased kit and equipment to the value stated, and a certi-
ficate from their commanding officer to the effect that the articles
in their possession have been purchased as stated and that they are
suitable. Sub-assistant surgeons who have already been transferred
to the pension establishment and are granted honorary King’s com-
missions will be granted an outfit allowance up to the actual cost of
one full-dress uniform for durbar purposes, on the production of the
necessary vouchers to that effect.
5. Sub-charge allowance as at present authorised for sub-assistant
surgeons will be drawn in addition to pay of rank.
6. Officers granted honorary King’s commissions will relinquish,
while serving on the active list, any special allowance or concessions,
such as field or foreign service batta, clothing allowance and free.
rations.
7. Rent for quarters will be charged in accordance with Regulations.
for the M. E. S., Section IV, the concession of free quarters being
restricted to those officers whose duties require them to live in parti-
cular quarters in order to be near their work.
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8. They will be eligible for decorations as at present and for the
allowances attached thereto.
9. They will, on transfer to the pension establishment, be eligible-
for free passage to their homes under Passage Regulations, India,
para. 300 (c) and for double the rates of pension, based on the ordi-
nary rate of pay admissible to sub-assistant surgeons with the rank of
subedar or subedar-major under Pension Regulations, India, para 210,
according to length of service, including honorary King’s commis-
sioned service. They must, however, serve in the honorary rank on
the active list for at least three years before they become eligible for
the double rates of pension. The cases of sub-assistant surgeons
gr ant ed honor ar y Ki ng’ s commi ssi ons who ar e i nval i ded or ot her wi se
discharged before completing three years’ honorary King’s commis-
sioned service will be considered on their merits.
Sub-assistant surgeons who have already been transferred to the
pension establishment and who are granted honorary King’s commis-
sions will draw the enhanced rates of pension with effect from the date
of their commission.
10.Family pensions will be regulated by the general rules which.
apply to the Indian rank held, but the rates shall be increased by
Rs. 5 per mensem for each year or part of a year of honorary King’s
commissioned service on the active list rendered by a deceased officer,
subject to a maximum of Rs. 75 per mensem in all. When death
occurs in ordinary circumstances, i.e., otherwise than as indicated in
para. 252, Pension Regulations, India, either during service or
after retirement, a family pension of Rs. 25 per mensem will be admis-
sible, subject to the general rules indicated above.
11.Claims to wound and injury pensions will be considered and
dealt with on their merits.
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Study Leave I.M.S.
APPENDIX IV-A.
A.—REGULATIONS GOVERNING THE GRANT OF STUDY
LEAVE TO OFFICERS OF THE
( R E G U L A T I O N S P R E S C R I B E D U N D E R F U N D A M E N T A L R U L E 8 4
REGARDING THE GRANT OF STUDY LEAVE TO OFFICERS
OF THE INDIAN MEDICAL SERVICE WHO ARE SUBJECT
TO THE LEAVE RULES UNDER SECTIONS I TO V OF
CHAPTER X OF THE FUNDAMENTAL RULES. )
1. Extra leave for the purpose of study may be granted by the
Government of India or by local Governments to officers of the Indian
Medical Service on the recommendation of the Director-General,
Indian Medical Service. The powers granted by these rules to the
Government of India or to local Governments may be delegated by
them to the High Commissioner for India, subject to any condition
they may think fit to impose.
2. The period of such study leave will be calculated at the rate of
one-twelfth of the same service as qualifies for leave under Rules 77
and 78 of the Fundamental Rules up to a total in any case of 12 months
in all during an officer’s service.
3. Study leave may be taken at any time but an officer who retires,
except on account of ill-health, not later than three years from the
date of return to India after taking study leave, shall be liable to the
cancellation of any benefits which he has received under these rules
in respect of that study leave, and to the refund of any additional
monies received under them.
4. The minimum period of study which will render an officer
eligible for study leave shall be two months.
5. The minimum period of leave granted solely as study leave shall
be six months. Time spent on the journey to and from India by
an officer whose study leave is not combined with any other kind
of leave will reckon as study leave, but the allowance specified in
Rule 10 will notibe granted during the period of the journey. An officer
whose study leave is combined with any other kind of leave will,
however, be required to take his period of study leave at such a time
as to retain, at its conclusion, a balance of other previously sanc-
tioned leave sufficient to cover his return journey to India.
When an officer has been granted a definite period of study leave
and finds after arrival in England that his course of study will fall
short of the sanctioned period to any considerable extent, his absence
from India will be reduced by the excess period of study leave unless
he produces the assent of the authorities in India to his taking it as
ordinary leave.
6. Study leave can be combined with any other kind of leave,
provided the period occupied in study is not less than twc months.
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respect thereof, provided that study allowance is not drawn for an
aggregate period exceeding 12 months during the whole of an officer’s
service.
10.For the course of study, a study allowance, at present fixed
at 12s. a day in the United Kingdom, £1 a day on the Continent of
Europe and £1 10s. in the United States of America, will be admis-
sible. These rates are liable to revision. No payment in respect
of study allowances will be made until. the satisfactory certificates,
as required by Rule 12, are furnished on the completion of the course
of study.
I t i s t o b e u n d e r s t o o d t h a t i n o r d e r t o q u a l i f y f o r t h e g r a n t o f
study leave or for the receipt of study allowance a definite course of
postgraduate study at a recognised institution, or of study ordinarily
associated with postgraduate work, which must be approved as suit-
able by the Director-General, Indian Medical Service, or by the
Medical Adviser to the Secretary of State for India, and which will
occupy the time of the officer for a minimum of five days a week
and five hours a day, must be pursued. Courses of study intended
for students preparing for their primary medical qualifications will
mot be approved.
This allowance will not be admissible to an officer who retires
from the service without returning to duty in India after a period
of study leave, and is liable to be refunded under Rule 3 above in
the case of retirement, otherwise than on account of ill-health within
three years of return to India.
Periods not exceeding 14 days of vacation or interval between two
courses of study may, at an officer’s option, be treated as study leave,
in which case the study allowance will be issued. Alternatively
such periods may be taken as ordinary leave, in which case study
allowance will not be issued. If such periods exceed 14 days, the
excess will be treated as ordinary leave without study allowance.
Study allowance may be given at the discretion of the Government
of India or a local Government for any period up to 14 days at one
time during which the officer is prevented by sickness duly certified
by a medical practitioner from pursuing the sanctioned course of study.
No course of study will be recognised as study leave for the purpose of
the allowance or for any other purpose unless the course of study
has been approved in accordance with paragraphs 7 and 8 above.
11.The rate of pay admissible during study leave is as follows :
—
Half average pay subject to the maxima and minima prescribed
in Rules 89 and 90 of the Fundamental Rules. The rate of ex-
change prescribed by the Secretary of State in Council for the con-
version of leave salary (other than that admissible during the first
four months of period of leave on average pay) shall apply to these
allowances.
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Study Leave I.M.S.
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12.On completion of a course of study, a certificate on the proper
form (which may be obtained from the Office of the High Commis-
sioner), together with any certificates of special study, should be
forwarded to the Secretary to the High Commissioner, General Depart-
ment, who will arrange for the transmission of copies of the docu-
ments to the Director-General, Indian Medical Service. Officers
may also be called upon to report themselves in person to the Medical
Adviser to the Secretary of State, on the conclusion of their course
of study.
13.Study leave will count as service for promotion and pension
but not for leave. It will not affect any leave which may already
be due to an officer, and will not be taken into account in reckoning
the aggregate amount of leave taken by an officer towards the maxi-
mum period admissible under Rule 81 of the Fundamental Rules.
Regulations regarding the grant of study leave to officers of the Indian
Medical Service (A ) in temporary civil employ whose leave is regu-
lated under military rules, (B) in military employ.
The Indian Medical Service Study Leave Rules for the time being
in force under Fundamental Rule 84 apply to these officers with the
following modifications. The numeration of paragraphs is that of the
Rules under Fundamental Rule 84.
2. The period of study leave will be calculated at the rate of one-
twelfth of pension service subject to the prescribed total.
6. The total period of leave granted in the first instance (study
leave combined with any other leave) will not exceed one year.
7.
“ Under Secretary of State, Military Department, India Office,”
is substituted for “ Secretary to the High Commissioner for India,
General Department,” wherever the expression occurs.
8. Ditto. In the case of officers in military employment the
consent of the authorities in India will be necessary for the extension
of leave, but not for the conversion of ordinary leave into study leave
or for the issue of study leave allowance.
9. An officer who is at home on combined leave may be permitted
to commence a course of study before the end of his privilege leave
and to draw for such period the study allowance admissible under
Rule 10 without forfeiting his privilege leave allowances. For all
purposes of record and subsequent calculation of leave, the full amount
of study leave taken shall in such cases be post-dated as if it had
commenced at the end of the privilege leave.
11. The rate of pay admissible during study leave is the rate of
leave pay admissible under the Military Leave Rules.
12.
“ India Office ” and “ Under Secretary of State, Military
Department, India Office,” are substituted for “ Office of the High
Commissioner ” and “ Secretary to High Commissioner, General
Department.”
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Appx. IV-B.
Study Leave I.M.D
APPENDIX IV-B.
B.—REGULATIONS GOVERNING THE GRANT OF STUDY
LEAVE TO MILITARY ASSISTANT SURGEONS OF THE
INDIAN MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.
[The regulations apply to Military Assistant Surgeons in military
employ. The question of applying the regulations to Military assistant
surgeons in civil employ will rest with the provincial Governments con-
cerned. ]
1. Study leave up to a total period of 12 months in an Assistant
S u r g e o n ’ s s e r v i c e i s a d m i s s i b l e . I t i s g r a n t e d o n t h e r e c o m m e n d a t i o n
of the Director-General, Indian Medical Service.
2. The period of such leave is calculated at the rate of one-twelfth
of pension service.
3. (a) All applications for study leave from Assistant Surgeons in
India must be submitted to the Director-General, Indian Medical
Service, for verification of the applicant's title to such leave and
approval, through the prescribed channel. The applications should
contain as full particulars as possible concerning the course of study
contemplated, names of institutions, commencement and termination
of each course and any examinations proposed to be taken.
(b)Members of the Assistant Surgeon Branch of the Indian Medical
Department who apply for long leave to the United Kingdom for the
purpose of studying for English medical qualifications are required to
sign an undertaking on a prescribed form to continue to serve after
the termination of such leave for a minimum period of three years.
(c)Assistant Surgeons of the Indian Medical Department who desire
that the High Commissioner for India should accept the responsibility
of providing facilities for them, when on study leave, should send full
information to the office of the High Commissioner for India, London,
about six months before the period of study leave commences, stating
their exact qualifications, the desired course and the period of study
leave which is likely to be granted.
They should make no direct application to institutions in the United
Kingdom, though any suggestions which they may desire to make in
connection with their study leave will receive due consideration in the
office of the High Commissioner.
(d)Warrant officers of Asiatic domicile are granted free second class
passages by transport to and from the United Kingdom, when proceed-
ing on study leave, on one occasion during their service. This conces-
sion is not admissible to the members of their families.
4. Approved programmes of study will be forwarded by the Director-
General, Indian Medical Service, to the Secretary, Military Depart-
ment, India Office, or to the High Commissioner for India, as the case
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may be In any case in which it is not possible for the Director-
General, Indian Medical Service, to give full. details of the proposed
course in the programme of study, he will instruct the Assistant
.Surgeon concerned to submit full particulars of the course to the
Military Department, India Office or to the Secretary to the High
Commissioner. for India before he commences his study and before
incurring any expense in connection therewith.
5. On the completion of a course of study in the United Kingdom,
certificate on the proper form (which may be obtained from the
India Office), together with any certificates of special st idy, should be
forwarded to the Under-Secretary of State, India Office, who will
:arrange for the transmission of copies of the documents to the Director-
General, Indian Medical Service. In the case of Assistant, Surgeons
who have undergone a course of study in India, the certificates referred
to above will be forwarded through the principal of the institution
concerned. No certificates of study qualifying for study leave will be
accepted unless approval of the course of study has been previously
obtained.
Study allowance may be given at the discretion of the Government
of India or the India Office for any period up to fourteen days at one
time during which the Assistant Surgeon is prevented by sickness duly
.certified by a commissioned medical officer in India or by a medical
practitioner in the United Kingdom, from pursuing the sanctioned
course of study.
6. Study leave allowance at the rate of 7 shillings 6 pence a clay
out of India and Rs. 100 a month in India is admissible during the
course of study and for the period of any examination held at the end
of any course. It is granted on production of the certificate required
by rule 4, showing that a definite course of study at a recognised insti-
tution has been pursued. The allowance is admissible up to 14 days
for any period of vacation. The period for which an Assistant Surgeon
interrupts his course for his own convenience is not counted as vacation.
The allowance is not admissible to an Assistant Surgeon while
studying for an arts examination. It is only admissible while he is
undertaking study which is of a purely medical nature.
7. When an assistant surgeon has been granted a definite period
of study leave and finds after arrival in the United Kingdom that
his course of study will fall short of the sanctioned period to any
considerable extent, his absence from India will be reduced by the
excess period of study leave unless he produces the assent of the
authorities in India to his taking it as ordinary furlough.
8. Study leave can be combined with any other kind of leave,
provided the period admissible and occupied in study is not less than
two months out of India or one month in India. The study leave
should be taken at such a time as to leave at its conclusion a balance
of the previously sanctioned leave sufficient to cover the return journey
to India.
9. The minimum period of study, which will render an Assist-
ant Surgeon eligible for study leave, will be two months out of, or
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one month in, India. The minimum period of leave granted solely
as study leave will be six months out of, and six weeks in, India.
Time spent on the journey to, from, and in India, by an Assistant
Surgeon whose study leave is not combined. with any other kind of
leave, will reckon as study leave, but the allowance specified in rule 5,
will be granted during the period of actual study of medical subjects
and of the examination, if any, at its conclusion.
10.Assistant Surgeons on furlough in the United Kingdom who
wish to have part of their furlough converted into study leave, should
address the Under-Secretary of State, India Office, and should furnish
a statement detailing the proposed course of study for previous approval
If an extension of furlough is required, the statement of the course of
study proposed must be accompanied by documentary evidence of the
approval of the authorities in India to the application for extension
of furlough.
11.An Assistant Surgeon who is in the United Kingdom on com-
bined leave may be permitted to commence a course of study before
the end of his privilege leave and to draw for such period the allowance
admissible under rule 5 without forfeiting his privilege leave allowances
during such period.
For all purposes of record and subsequent calculation of leave,
the full amount of study leave taken shall, in such cases, be post-
dated, as if it commenced at the end of the privilege leave.
12.In the case of an Assistant Surgeon retiring from, or resigning,.
the service without returning to duty or within one year of his return
to duty, after a period of study leave, the allowance authorised in rule
5 will be forfeited.
13.The rates of pay admissible to Assistant Surgeons while on
study leave will be as follows :
—
Out of India
Pay as on general leave.
In India
Grade pay.
14.An Assistant Surgeon on leave on medical certificate in the
United Kingdom, who wishes to undertake a course of study must
first obtain a certificate from the Medical Board at the India Office
that he is fit for study. This certificate and a statement of the pro-
posed course of study must be submitted to the Medical Adviser,
India Office, for approval.
15.Study leave counts as service for promotion and pension but,
except so far as it may be taken during privilege leave, it will not
count for furlough or any other leave. It will not affect any leave
already due but the whole period of combined study leave will not
exceed the maximum limit of two years admissible under regulations
and any period exceeding this limit will be treated as leave without pay
under paragraph 77 of these regulations.
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Appx. V.
APPENDIX V
SPECIAL RULES GOVERNING FURLOUGH AND LEAVE
AND APPLICATIONS FOR SUCH.
1. The rules governing leave of the personnel of the M. M. S. are
detailed in column 2 of the table to this Appendix.
2. Applications will be submitted on the following forms :—
Officers and members of the M. N. S.. I. A. F. L-1170.
Matrons family hospitals .
.
. Manuscript.
Assistant Surgeons I. M. D.
.. I. A. F. L-1171.
Sub Asstt. Surgeons I. M. D. .. I. A. F. (Medl.) 15.
3. When a “ statement ” from the controller of military accounts
is necessary on a leave application, the application is to be submitted
through the C. M. A. concerned.
4. Appplications of officers and lady nurses for combined leave,
which includes a period of privilege leave exceeding 60 days, and
applications of I. M. S. officers for study leave, will be submitted to the
sanctioning authority through the C. M. A. concerned.
5. The attached table shows details regarding leave rules and the
authorities who sanction the grant of leave.
6. Leave for officers of the medical services is governed by the
-following rules :—
British Service.—Administrative officers of the British Service
and officers of the R. A. M. C. holding the appointments noted on the
margin.—The Staff Leave Rules
in para. 892, Regulations for the
Army in India. They may, how-
ever, if more advantageous to them,
be granted leave on medical certi-
ficate under para. 902 ibid, but such
leave will be in diminution of any
leave due on private affairs, pro-
vided the latter has not already been taken. Officers of the British
Medical Service of the ranks of Major-General and Colonel will not be
required to vacate their appointments on the expiry of eight months’
leave on medical certificate, as ruled in para. 892 ibid for other staff
and administrative appointments.
Other executive officers of the Royal Army Medical Corps and
officers of the Army Dental Corps.—The rules for the British Service
in India, para. 875 et seq, Regulations for the Army in India.
Indian Medical Service.—Administrative officers of the Indian
Medical Service and executive officers of the Indian Medical Ser-
vice holding the appointments noted on the margin. The staff Leave
Rules in para. 892, Regulations for the Army in India.
Other executive officers of the Indian Medical Service.—The rules
for the Indian Army, para. 875 et seq, Regulations for the Army in
India.
1.D. M. S. in India.
2.D. Ds. M. S. Commands
and A. H. Q.
3.A. Ds. M. S. Distt. Brigade
and A. H. Q.
4.Directors in Medical Directorate.
5.D. A. Ds. M. S.
6.A. Ds. of H. and P.
7.D. A. Ds. of H.
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