THE FUNDAMENTAL RULES OF THE TAMIL NADU GOVERNMENT

102. Government may make rules regulating the grant of leave on account of ill-health toofficers and seamen of Government vessels. Such leave is not debited against the leaveaccount.103. Rules regulating the leave which may be earned by—(a) temporary or officiating service; and(b) part-time service or service which is remunerated wholly or partly by the payment ofhonoraria or daily wages, are given in the Instructions below:These Instructions are subject to the condition that they shall not grant more favourableterms than would be admissible if the service were substantive, permanent and continuous.1. Deleted.Instruction under Rule 103 (a).2. Leave may be granted to any other Government servant without a lien on a permanent postwhile officiating in a post or holding a temporary post, provided that the grant of the leave involves noextra expense to the Government. On this condition, such a Government servant may be granted—(a) leave on leave-salary equivalent to average pay up to one-eleventh of the period spent onduty, subject to a maximum of four months at a time, or(b) on medical certificate, leave on leave-salary equivalent to half-average pay for three monthsat any one time, or(c) extraordinary leave under Rule 85 for three months at any one time.Note 1.—The Government reserve the power to waive the proviso that there should be no extraexpense, in special cases.Note 2.—When a Groups C and D Government servant takes leave and(i) his pay is less than Rs.300, or(ii) the leave taken does not exceed one month.his average pay for the purpose of this rule may be taken to be his pay at the time of taking leave,if this pay be more than the average pay.Note 3.—Health Inspectors have been permitted to count their previous pensionable service underlocal bodies for leave in combination with subsequent Government service subject to the followingconditions:—(i) such service should be allowed to count for leave in combination with the subsequentGovernment service, provided the Health Inspector has completed his period of probation, and is notlikely to revert from Government service; and(ii) the leave salary is debited to the local bodies concerned until the amount of leave at thecredit of such Health Inspector at the time of transfer to Government service is entirely exhausted.In the case of local body and Municipal servants who are merely acting as probationary HealthInspectors, their leave should continue to be regulated by Instruction 2 to Rule 103 (a).Note 4.—Non-permanent Government servants may also be granted special disability leaveunder the terms and conditions applicable to permanent Government servants (See Note underFundamental Rule 83.)Exception.—In the case of a Government servant officiating in a permanent post or holding atemporary post in a vacation department, leave granted under clause (a) of this rule shall be on leavesalaryequivalent to half-average pay, provided that such a Government servant may be grantedunder that clause leave on leave-salary equivalent to average pay to the extent of one month for eachyear of duty in which he has availed himself of not more than 15 days of the vacation.(Government of India, Finance Department, Resolution, No.783/C.S.R., dated the 8th July 1922.)3. If such a Government servant is, without interruption of duty, appointed substantively to apermanent post, his leave account will be credited with the amount of leave which he would haveearned by his previous duty if he had performed it while holding a permanent post substantively, anddebited with the amount of leave actually taken under Instruction 2. Leave taken under Instruction 2 is140