THE FUNDAMENTAL RULES OF THE TAMIL NADU GOVERNMENT

4. If the detention in hospital was due to an injury received or a disease contracted in the courseof duty, and it is also certified not to have been due to imprudence, full pay may be allowed for aperiod not exceeding three months. If the medical officer certifies that the injury or diseasenecessitates detention in hospital, that there is no hospital within convenient distance to which thepatient may be sent and that home treatment is possible, treatment as an out-patient may beconsidered to be detention in hospital for the purpose of this sub-rule.Rulings.Hospital leave to temporary or officiating Government servants.(1) A Government servant who holds only a temporary of officiating post and has no lien on apermanent post is not entitled to hospital leave, but only to leave under Rule 103.(G.O. Ms. No. 346, Finance, dated 1st May 1934.)(2) Maternity leave may be granted in continuation of other kinds of leave.(G.O. No. 980, Finance, dated 21st December 1925.)Leave salary of basic servants on maternity leave.(3) The restriction on the amount of leave salary admissible to basic servants under the proviso toRule 87 (b) (ii) should be applied in respect of the leave salary payable under instruction 1 below Rule101 (a)(Memorandum No. 6757-2-2-P.H., dated the 4th March 1911.)Calculation of hospital leave.(4) The Three months leave on full pay referred to in Instruction 4 should be reckoned as part ofthe leave referred to in Instruction 3.Press employees.(5) The Instruction under Rule 101 (b) are applicable to all “press employees” including pieceworkers, permanent and temporary, the men paid from contingencies and to those on daily wages.Their leave salary should, however, be calculated on the basis of average pay as defined in Rule 9(2).(G.O. Ms. No. 625, Finance, dated 3rd September 1927.)(6) The limit of eight months is not applicable when hospital leave is taken in combination withordinary leave on average pay on medical certificate.(Memo. No. 30896-1-C.S.R., dated 3rd October 1927.)Explanation of detention in hospital.(7) Attendance by a police-man unfit for duty at a hospital as an out patient is not “detention inhospital” for the purposes of the above rule.[G.O. Ms. No. 415, Judicial (Police), dated 4th July 1923.](8) There shall be no limit for combining earned leave or vacation with maternity leave providedthat in cases where a Government servant is required to attend office during vacation immediatelyfollowing maternity leave but is unable to attend, a medical certificate may be insisted at the discretionof the sanctioning authority.(Memo. No. 39529/C.S.R.,2, dated 27th May 1955.)(9) A female Group A and B Government servant applying for leave under Instruction 2 to Rule101 (a) should follow the procedure laid down in Part I (Section III) in Annexure II to the FundamentalRules.(G.O. Ms. No. 953, Finance, dated 27th July 1957.)(10) The leave salary for the period of maternity leave availed by a female Government servantwhile on foreign service should be borne by the foreign employer.(G.O. Ms. No. 865, Finance, dated 4th August 1965.)139