THE FUNDAMENTAL RULES OF THE TAMIL NADU GOVERNMENT

68. Leave ordinarily begins on the day on which transfer of charge is effected and ends onthe day preceding that on which charge is resumed. The rules defining the circumstances, inand the conditions on, which Sundays or other recognized holidays may be prefixed to leaveor affixed to leave are given in the instructions below:—Instructions.1. When the day immediately preceding the day on which a Government servant’s leave begins orimmediately following the day on which his leave expires is a holiday or one of a series of holidays,the Government servant may leave his station at the close of the day before or return to it on the dayfollowing such holiday or series of holidays provided that—(a) his transfer or assumption of charge does not involve the handing or taking over ofsecurities or of moneys other than a permanent advance;(b) his early departure does not entail a correspondingly early transfer from another station of aGovernment servant to perform his duties; and(c) the delay in his return does not involve a corresponding delay in the transfer to anotherstation of the Government servant who was performing his duties during his absence or in thedischarge from Government service of a person temporarily appointed to it.2. On condition that the departing Government servant remains responsible for the moneys in hischarge, the head of the department concerned may declare that proviso (a) under Instruction 1 is notapplicable to any particular case.3. Unless the authority sanctioning the leave or transfer in any case otherwise directs—(a) if holidays are prefixed to leave, the leave and any consequent rearrangement of pay andallowances take effect from the first day after the holidays, and(b) if holidays are affixed to leave, the leave is treated as having terminated on, and anyconsequent rearrangement of pay and allowances takes effect from the day on which the leave wouldhave ended if holidays had not been affixed.(c) holidays may be prefixed and suffixed to regular leave in case no substitute is posted in theleave vacancy.(G.O. Ms. No. 1093, Personnel and Administrative Reforms, dated 24th October 1984.)Explanation 1.—In deciding whether the absence of a Government servant during holidaysinvolves the transfer of a Government servant from another station for the purpose of this Instruction,account should be taken only of the substitute who takes the place of the absent Government servant,not of all the Government servants in the chain of arrangements arising from one Governmentservant’s absence on leave.Explanation 2.—The term “holiday” used in Instructions 1 and 3 above should be held to mean—(a) a holiday prescribed or notified by or under Section 25 of the Negotiable Instruments Act,1881; and(b) with reference to any particular public office, a day on which such office is ordered, bynotification of Government in the Gazette, to be closed for the transaction of public business withoutreserve or qualification.The term does not include a vacation except in the cases of District and Sessions Judges andAdditional Sessions Judges nor such local holidays as may be granted at the discretion of heads ofoffices nor holidays which are merely permissible or discretionary.Note.—Compensatory leave may be allowed to be prefixed or affixed to regular leave or casual leavesubject to the usual conditions.(G.O. Ms. No. 1334, Finance, dated 21st November 1964.)4. In the case of District and Sessions Judges and Additional District and Sessions Judges, theterm “holidays” includes a vacation subject to the condition that the period of the vacation is treated asleave for purposes of—(a) the maximum amount of leave on average pay admissible at any one time under Rule 81(b) except when leave on average pay does not exceed four months and is not combined with anyother leave;111