THE
CONTENTS
1. Short
title and commencement
2. Definitions
3. Appointment
and term of office
4. Salary
5. Sumptuary
Allowance
6. Transport
7. Official
residence
8. Travelling
Allowance
9. Form
of Certificate
10. Additional travelling allowance
11. Compensation in case of air accident
12. Daily allowance
13. Controlling Officer
14. Travelling allowance for tour abroad
15. Medical facilities
16. Leave
17. Personal Staff
18. General
19. Telephone
20. Power
to make rules
[1]THE
(Pb. Ord. LXXVI of
2002)
[
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][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]Promulgated by the Governor
of the
[2]Substituted by the