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EVENING, JULY 31, 1868

INDIA-OFFICE, 27TH JULY, 18G8.
ruHE SECRETARY of STATE for INDIA. in
• COUNCIL having conErmed the following RULES
promulgated by the Governor-Gouteral of India in Coucil,
regarding LI,;AVE of ABSENCE to COVENANTED
CIVIL SERVANTS,- publishes the same in supercession
of all previous Rules and Orders on the subject.
These Rules will take effect from the Ist July, 1868, and
are not intended_ to apply to Covenantal Civil Servants,
who are Members of the Councils of the Governor-General,
or of the; Governors of Bimbay and Malras, or who are
Judges of a High Court.
RULES REGARDING LEXVE OF ABSENCE TO
COVENANTED CIVIL 'SER,VANTS.
DEFINITIO.NS.
I. In the following Rules—
" Actual Service" includes the period during which au
officer is on duty, also periods spent on privilege and sub-
sidiaty leave, and periods during which an officer, not on
leave, may be out of employ on subsistence allowance in
India.
"E: "-

extraordinary Leave" means Any leave granted other-
wise than under those Rules.
" Long Extraordinary Leave" means extraordinary
leave extending beyond a period of three mouths.
" Long Furlough" means furlough extending beyond a
period of three months.

Salary includes acting allowances.
An Officer's
"Station" means that station to which he
stands appointed, or such other place as the Government
to which he is subordinate may determine.
CHAPTER I. •
FURLOUGH.
11. The maximum period of furlough, wit;ch can be
granted to any offi...er daring the whole period of his ser-
viCe is-limited to six years.
111. Subject to the above Iftit, one year's furlough shall
be. placed the credit of eac,."kir for every four years
of actual service.
IV. No furlough shall be takdn before the completion
of eight years' actual service, except under Rule VIII.
V. Furlough shall not be repeated until three years from
the date of the last'return from long extraordlnary leave,
or long furlough, except under Rule VIII. Leave taken
under Chapters If. lud II f., but no other leave, shall be
reckoned as part'of the said three.years.
VI. The maximum term of furlough to be taken at any
one tque shall be two years.
VII. Except as hereinafter provided, an officer when on
furlough shall retain a lien on his substantive appoint-
ment, or on an appointment of similar character and not
less salary, and he shall be granted allowances at the rate
of 50 per cent. of his average salary for the previous three
years, or for the period which has elapsed since his last
return from long furlough, or long extraordinary leave, if
that period be.less than three years.
In calculating such average, the time spent and the
allowances drawn under any leave, excepting privilege
leave under Chapter 11., shall be omitted.
Provided that no officer on furlough shall draw more
than £1,200 or less than...ooo per annum.
VIII: Under Medical Certificate—

(a.) Furlough may be taken on the above-mentioned
conditions, without reference to the amount at credit under
Rule 111.

(b.) Furlough for a period not exceeding one year may
be taken, even if less than three years have elapsed since
thalast return from long extraordinary leave or long fur-
lough. When on furlough under this clause an officer
will not retain a lien on his appointment, and will be en-
titled only to subsistence allowance, unless he has com-
pleted six months actual service since his last return from
long extraordinary leave or long furlough, and them re-
main some leave to his credit under Rule 111 iu which
case the offi,:er will retain a lien on his appointment, and
will draw allowances as calculated*under Rule VII., until
that credit be exhausted, but in no case for a period ex-
ceeding one year.
(c.) Furlough taken without medical certificate, or under
clause (a) of this Rule, may bo extended beyond fwo
years fora period,not exceeding one year. When on fur-
lough under this 'clause an officer will not retain a lien on
his appointment, and will be entitled only to subsistence
allowance. _ _

IX.-Furlough taken or extended under Rule VIII. is
subject to the pidvision of Rule 11.
X. Furlough taken in India will be reckoned from the
date of the officer quitting his station to the date of his
return thereto.' Furlough taken out of India will be
reckoned from. the date of embarkation to the date of
return. • ' _ _

In the event of the furlough being taken partly in India,
and partly out of India, the commencement and termina-
tion of the furlough will be determined by the above Rules,
according as the . torlough ,begins or ends in or out of
XI. For the interval elapang between departure from
his station and the commencement of furlough, and be-
tween the terminakipriof furlough and the fe-arrival at his
station, an officeirfobfll be allowed subsidiary leave not
ordinarily exceedi44-p. each case thirty ,d,ys. During
those periods fiis alloVances' will be calculated in the same
way as his furlough allpwan9es, but without litnitatiorias
to maximum and minituum. Provided >that; if the officer
has, under those Rules•;!ost his lien on his appOntnieet,
shall draw in substenee-.; 4 auce of his rank. ,i•,Subsidiary
shall
count' eery MiAd residence.
XII. A p. !ieations for ftiNotlgh will in k).11 cases be sub-
mitted (Jovernment to which the applicant is sub-
ordina -..111 be dealt Ivitr,,t in such manner as the
Govern' -tieneral of India in 1:-,4ncil may :roux time to
time prescribe.
XIII. Subject to the ex7gencies of the service, both as
regards the number of furloughs aviii:ab:e at any one time,
and as regards individual applications, of a hick exigcnci,s
the Government of India, Madras, or Bombe , as the case
may be, shall be exclusively the judge, furloughs will be
granted under these Rules.

XIV. All applications for furlough und-r ix-wait:al cora-
ficafe, in acc.riauco with thew) Rules, will bo grautod
without, resti ion.

XV. lf, owing ti the exigencies of the service, it may
be necessary to place any limit on the number of officers
who may be absent ou furlough at the 8:u110 time, applies-
ti ins not supperted by medical certificate will be granted
in the following order:—

The applicant to whose credit the greatest amount of
furlough remains under Rule 111. shall have the preference.
If two or more applicants are on an equality in this
respect, the preference shall be given to the applicant,
whose actual service in India is longest, reckoning, in the
case of an officer who has not taken long extraordinary
leave or long furlough, from the date of arrival in India,
and in the case of an officer who has taken long extraor-
dinary leave or long furlough, from the date of his last
return from such leave or furlough.
If two or more applicants are equal in both respects,
the preference shall be given to the senior in the Grada-
tion List.

XVI. The term of residence qualifying for pension shall
be 21 years, but no leave, except privilege leave and sub-
sidiary leave, shall count residence.
XVII. The term cf service qualifying for pension shall
be 25 years.

CHAPTER 11.
PRIVILEGE LEAVE.

XVIII. Subject to theexigen;iesof the State, an officer
who has completed eleven months' continuous duty may
take privilege leave for one month without deduction from
his salary, retaining a lieu on his, appointment, whether
substantive or officiating. Provided tbat, in the case of
his holding an officiating appointment, such lien and his
acting allowance will cease on the resumption of charge by
the officer to whom the substantive appointment belongs.
XIX. In the same manner, and under the same condi-
tions, two or three months' privilege leave may be taken
when an officer has completed continuous duty of twenty-
two or twenty-three months respectively.
XX. Privilege leave may, at the discretion of the local
Government, be taken in separate instalments. No second
instalment shall be taken until after the completion of six
months' continuous duty front the expiry of the first in-
stalment. In this case the eleven months qualifying for
fresh privilege leave will bo reckoned from the expiry of
the first instalment, the period of the second instalment
being omitted from the calculation.
Provided that the whole privilege leave taken at any
one time shall not exceed three months, and that no
accumulation of privilege leave beyond that period shall
be admitted.
XXI. If an officer shall over-stay his privilege leave, he
shall forfeit all salary during the time of his remaining so
absent; and, if he shall so continue absent for more than
one week, his office shall become vacant.
XXII. Privilege leave shall be reckoned as residence
and service.
CHAPTER ILL
• SPECIAL LEAVE.
XXIII. Special leave, on urgent private affairs, may be
granted at the discretion of the local Government for a
period not exceeding six months. In respect of retention
of a lieu on appointment, of allowances drawn during the
leave, and of subsidiary leave, the conditions of special
leave shall be the same as those prescribed for furlough.
Special leave shall not be reckoned as residence.
XXIV. Rule XXI. shall, mutatis mutandis, apply to an
officer overstaying spacial leave.
XXV. Special leave may be repeated without allow-
ances after intervals of at least six years' actual service.
CHAFFER IY.
GENERAL.

XXVI. Furlough, privilege, leave, and special leave
shall not be taken as such in continuation of each other;
but, if an officer absent on one of these classes of leave be
allowed to change it for another, the whole period of his
absence shill be held to be under the class of leave for
which it was changed.
xxvii. Subject to considerations of State, there will
b 3 no restriction as to the places where an officer may
reside when on leave.
XXVIII. Leave allowance shall be payable monthly, if
payment is taken in India, and quarterly if payment is
taken in England.
CFIAPTER V.
TEMPORARY RULES.

XXIX. Whatever aggregate amount out of the three
years' furlough and three years' sick leave, under the
Rules until now in force, at present remains to be taken by
an officer under the said Rules, shall remain to be taken by
him under Rules now promulgated.
XXX. Any officer now in the service shall, when next
proceeding o❑ furlough, elect whether he will draw allow-
ances at the higher minimum rate of £5OO per annum (not
exceeding his total salary at the time). If he shall so
elect, he will, in any future furlough, be limited, as to
allowance, to the lower maximum rate of £l,OOO per
annum.
XXXI. Any officer now absent on leave, who has no
appointment, may, on his return, and until he again holds
an appointment carrying equal pay to that of the substan-
tive appointment which he last held, draw the subsistence
allowance of his rank, together with 75 per cent. of the
pay of any appointment in which he shall officiate. Pro-
vided that the total salary so drawn by him shall not ex-
ceed the pay of the appointment in which he is officiating.
This Rule shall apply to any officer who may have already
returned from furlough.
XXXII. Any officer now absent on furlough, or under
medical certificate, may elect whether the remainder of his
leave shall be taken under these Rules from the date of
their promulgation. If he shall so elect, Rule XXX. shall
not apply to him.
RULES REGARDING ACTING ALLOWANCES.
I. An officer holding a substantive appointment, and
officiating in an appoiatment of a higher grade or class,
shall drag twang alma= calculated at•-3Q per cent:-on

the first 2,000 rs., and 20 per cent. on the remainder of thek
pay of the appointment in which he is offi.qating.
Provided that, if the acting allewanco so calculated do.
not amount to twe-thirds of the difference botwen the.
pay of the two appintarars, it shall be raised to two—

Provided further, that in no case shall the whole'salary
so drawn exceed the pay of the app3intruent in which the
officer is °lR:gating.
lE. An officir hol ling n-w subltantive, but only an offi-
ciating, appointtn 'nt, shall, subject to the provisoes in
Rule I. draw, in addi,ion to the subsistence allowance o
his rank 50 p.,r cent. of the pay of the appointment in
which he is officiating.
111. In the case of an officer officiating in an appoint-
ment the pay of which is progressive, his acting allow-
ances shall b 3 calculated on th 3 mean pay of the said
appointment, provided that the whole salary so drawn
shall not (mooed the minimum pay of the said appoint-
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