THE
(Ordinance LXXVI of 2002)
C O N T E N T S
Section Heading
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. [Omitted]
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
(Ordinance
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.– [2][(1)] The salary of a Special
Assistant shall be [3][six hundred and sixty-five thousand] rupees per month.
[4][(2) The Government may, by notification
in the official Gazette, increase the salary mentioned in subsection (1).]
5. Sumptuary
allowance.– A Special Assistant shall be entitled to get
[5][fifteen 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.”
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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
[7][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]Section 4
renumbered as sub-section (1) by the Punjab Public Representatives’ Laws
(Amendment) Act 2016 (XI of 2016) (effective from the 1st day of
July 2015).
[3]Substituted first
for the words “thirty five thousand” by the Punjab Public Representatives’ Laws
(Amendment) Act 2019 (XVI of 2019) (effective from the 1st day of
July 2019), and again for the words “one hundred thousand” by the Revision of
Salaries of Public Representatives Act 2024 (XVI of 2024).
[4]The following
sub-section (2), added by the Punjab Public Representatives’ Laws (Amendment)
Act 2016 (XI of 2016) (effective from the 1st day of July 2015), was
substituted by the Revision of Salaries of Public Representatives Act 2024 (XVI
of 2024) along with the omission of Explanation:
“(2) The
Government shall, by notification, increase the salary mentioned in subsection
(1) in proportion to the increase in the salary of the civil servants of
highest grade.
Explanation.– The word “salary” in
subsection (2) shall include any ad hoc relief or special allowance provided to
the civil servants of the highest grade, having the effect of increase in the
basic pay of the civil servants.”
[5]Substituted for the
words “four thousand” by the Punjab Public Representatives’ Laws (Amendment)
Act 2019 (XVI of 2019) (effective from the 1st day of July 2019).
[6] The
following section omitted by the Punjab Public Representatives’ Laws
(Amendment) Act 2021 (XLVIII of 2021):
“10. Additional travelling allowance.–
Notwithstanding anything contained in section 8, a Special Assistant shall also
be entitled a sum of forty thousand rupees per annum for travel by him or his
family within Pakistan at any time:
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.]”
[7]Substituted by the