The Punjab Special
Assistants
(Salary, Allowances And
Privileges) Ordinance, 2002
Contents
Section Heading Page
1. Short
title and commencement................................ 79
2. Definitions.............................................................. 80
3. Appointment
and term of office............................. 80
4. Salary..................................................................... 80
5. Sumptuary
Allowance............................................ 81
6. Transport................................................................ 81
7. Official
residence................................................... 81
8. Travelling
Allowance.............................................. 82
9. Form of
Certificate................................................. 83
10. Additional
travelling allowance.............................. 84
11. Compensation
in case of air accident..................... 84
12. Daily
allowance...................................................... 85
13. Controlling
Officer................................................. 85
14. Travelling
allowance for tour abroad...................... 85
15. Medical
facilities.................................................... 85
16. Leave...................................................................... 85
17. Personal
Staff......................................................... 86
18. General................................................................... 86
19. Telephone............................................................... 86
20. Power to
make rules............................................... 86
[1]The Punjab Special
Assistants
(Salary, Allowances And
Privileges) Ordinance, 2002
(Ordinance
LXXVI of 2002)
[28 October 2002]
An Ordinance to provide for appointment, salary, allowances and
privileges of Special Assistants to the Chief Minister of the Punjab.
Preamble.– Whereas it is expedient to provide for appointment, salary,
allowances and privileges of Special Assistants to the Chief Minister of the
Punjab;
And whereas the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab is dissolved and the Governor
is satisfied that circumstances exist which render it necessary to take
immediate action;
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 Punjab;
(b) “family” means the
wife and children residing with and wholly dependent upon the Special
Assistant;
(c) “Government” means the Government of the
Punjab;
(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 thirty five
thousand rupees per month.
[3][(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. 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 Pakistan, shall be
entitled to–
(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 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.
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, Punjab.
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 Pakistan shall be entitled to first class air fare
and such allowance as may be specified by Government.
[4][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, Punjab, for the purpose of identification.
(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 Punjab on 28 October 2002; and published in the Punjab
Gazette (Extraordinary), dated 28 October 2002, pages 3119-23.
[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]Sub-section (2)
added by the Punjab Public Representatives’ Laws (Amendment) Act 2016 (XI of
2016) (effective from the 1st day of July 2015).
[4]Substituted
by the