THE FUNDAMENTAL RULES OF THE TAMIL NADU GOVERNMENT

(2) The amount of leave due is the amount of earned leave diminished by (a) the amountof earned leave which has been taken and (b) one half of the special disability leave taken on full payunder Fundamental Rule 83 (7) (b).(3) A permanent Government servant in basic service may at any time be granted thewhole or any part of the leave due to him.(4) Earned leave may be combined with vacation but the combined period of such leaveand vacation shall not exceed 60 days.(1) Please see ruling (1) under Rule 12.RULINGS.(2) Where a Government servant is granted earned leave and commuted leave on full pay incombination with periods of vacation or sandwiched between two periods of vacations, the restrictionregarding the limitation of leave to the maximum accumulation of earned leave permissible under therules is not applicable. It is applicable only when earned leave is combined with vacation. Unearnedleave on medical certificate including commuted unearned leave on full pay may be granted incombination with periods of vacation or sandwiched between two periods of vacations.(Finance Memo. No.12559/F.R./59-3, dated 8th March 1960.)(3) When a Government servant subject to the Tamil Nadu Leave Rules, 1933 and serving in avacation department, proceeds on leave before completing a full year duty, the earned leaveadmissible to him will be calculated not with reference to the vacation which falls during the period ofactual duty rendered before proceeding on leave but with reference to the vacation that falls duringthe year commencing from the date following the date on which he completed the previous year ofduty.In cases where (i) no vacation falls between the date of the officers proceeding on leave and thedate of completion of last year of duty and (ii) if any vacation falls it has been enjoyed in full no creditis to be afforded in respect of the incomplete year of duty rendered before proceeding on leave.Where, however vacation falls between the date of proceeding on leave and the date of completion oflast year of duty and has been enjoyed only partly, credit is to be afforded in respect of the incompleteyear of duty on the analogy of ruling (3) under Rule 82 of the Fundamental Rules.The term “each year of duty” and “in any year” should be held to be exclusive of leave.(Finance Memo. No.67940/F.R./60-5, dated 29th October 1960 and No.131213/F.R./60-3, dated 31stJanuary 1961.)Unearned Leave.18. A permanent Government servant in basic service may be granted leave on medicalcertificate for six months in all:Provided that the maximum period of leave admissible under this rule shall be extendedto eighteen months if the Government servant concerned is undergoing treatment fortuberculosis, leprosy, cancer or hansen’s disease @ coronary surgery, kidney transplantationor Retina transplantation subject to the production of a medical certificate from the medicalofficer in-charge of a recognised medical institution of his having undergone regular treatmentduring the period of such leave.[G.O. Ms. No. 1286, Finance (F.R.I.), dated 16th October 1973.]@ [G.O. Ms. No. 596, P. & A.R. (FR. II) Dept., dt. 3-11-1989.]18-A. Unearned leave with allowances may in no case be granted unless the sanctioningauthority is satisfied that, as far as can be reasonably foreseen the Government servant willreturn to duty.244