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. LXXVII of
2002)
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An Ordinance to provide for appointment,
salary, allowances and privileges of Advisors to the Chief Minister of the
Preamble.– Whereas it is expedient to provide for
appointment, salary, allowances and privileges of Advisors 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 Advisors (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) “Advisor”
means a person appointed as Advisor to the Chief Minister under this Ordinance;
(b) “Chief
Minister” means the Chief Minister of the
(c) “family”
means the wife and children residing with and wholly dependent upon the
Advisor;
(d) “Government”
means the Government of the
(e) “maintenance”
in relation to a residence includes the payment of local rates, tax and the
provision of electricity, water and gas;
(f) “official
residence” means the house reserved from time to time for residence by an
Advisor and includes out houses and gardens appurtenant thereto; and
(g) “prescribed”
means prescribed by rules framed under this Ordinance.
3. Appointment and term of
office.– (1) The Chief
Minister may appoint not more than five Advisors who shall hold office during
the pleasure of the Chief Minister.
(2) An Advisor shall perform such functions as may be assigned to him
by the Chief Minister.
4. Salary.– The salary of an Advisor shall be thirty
thousand rupees per month.
5. Sumptuary allowance.– An Advisor
shall be entitled to get four thousand rupees per month as sumptuary allowance.
6. Transport.– An Advisor 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 an Advisor who is removed
from his office on the ground of misconduct.
7. Official residence.– (1) An Advisor 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, an Advisor 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 an Advisor chooses to reside–
(i) in his own house; or
(ii) in a rented house occupied by him before his appointment as an
Advisor;
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 an Advisor travelling on official duty shall be
treated as a first grade officer.
(2) An Advisor 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 an Advisor shall purchase return air ticket.
(4) An Advisor, 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 traveling 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) An
Advisor 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 an Advisor travels on duty, in the 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 an Advisor 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, an Advisor 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 an Advisor 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 an
Advisor, 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 Advisor
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 Advisor and addressed to the Accountant
General,
12. Daily
allowance.– An Advisor shall, while on tour 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 an Advisor.
14. Travelling allowance for tour
abroad.– An Advisor
travelling on official business outside
[2][15. Medical
facilities.– An Advisor 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 an Advisor 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 an Advisor shall be the same as his salary.
17. Personal Staff.– An Advisor, except while on leave, shall be
entitled to have such personal staff as may be sanctioned from time to time by
Government.
18. General.– (1) All reasonable precautions shall be
taken to see that the official residence, transport and furniture provided to
an Advisor 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 an Advisor 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 Advisor or to a person
authorized by him in writing according to an inventory to be drawn up and
signed by such officer.
(4) When an Advisor 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.– An Advisor 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 eight 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