THE FUNDAMENTAL RULES OF THE TAMIL NADU GOVERNMENT

should state definitely the period for which the reduction is to have effect vide G.O. No. 422, (Judicial),Police, dated the 14th August 1923 and Memorandum No.180, Public, dated the 25th March 1926.(G.O. No. 439, Public, dated 12th May 1926.)(5) In cases of suspension on account of imprisonment for debt, or for reasons other thanmisconduct the period of service preceding the suspension may be allowed to count for incrementsbut not the actual period of suspension.(Memorandum No. 588-1, Public, dated 2nd May 1927.)(6) Under Fundamental Rule 24 an increment shall ordinarily be drawn as a matter of courseunless it is withheld. Therefore, the fact that charges are pending against an officer is not an adequatereason for not authorising the increments due to him. If the penalty of stoppage of increment isimposed on him as a result of the charges against him, his next increment can be withheld as there isno objection to withholding it subsequent to the period of service to which the charges relate.(Finance Memorandum No.1279/F.R./60-4, dated 4th June 1960.)25. Where an efficiency bar is prescribed in a time-scale, the increment next above the barshall not be given to a Government servant without the specific sanction of the authorityempowered to withhold increments.RULINGS.(1) When an officer, who was previously held up at an efficiency bar in a time-scale, issubsequently allowed to cross it, he should be given only the increment next above the bar, with effectfrom the date of its removal, irrespective of the length of his service.(G.O. No. 225, Finance, dated 27th September 1940.)Effect of removal of bar on increments.(2) The above instruction applies only to the fixation of pay in the time-scale in which the efficiencybar has applied. It is not open to a State Government to fix an officer’s pay in the senior time-scalemerely because the officer has been held up by the efficiency bar in the junior time-scale. He shouldbe paid in the senior time-scale according to length of service, unless his pay in such scale is itselfaffected by the operation of an efficiency bar or by a disciplinary order passed in accordance withTamil Nadu Civil Services (Discipline and Appeal) Rules.[G.O. Ms. No. 450, Public (Police), dated 14th September 1934.]26. The following provisions prescribe the conditions on which service counts forincrements in a time-scale:—(a) All duty in a post on a time-scale counts for increments in that time-scale:Provided that the increments of all Government servants shall be so advanced as to fall dueon the commencement of the quarter concerned, that is advanced to 1st January for all thosedrawing increments between 2nd January and 31st March, or 1st April, 1st July or 1st October,as the case may be:Provided further that for the purpose of arriving at the date of next increment in that timescale,the total of all such periods as do not count for increment in that time-scale shall beadded to the normal date arrived at after advancing the date of increment to the first of thequarter.In cases where the punishment of stoppage of increment has been imposed withcumulative effect, the benefit of advancing the date of increment to the first of the quarter shallstand withdrawn permanently and that all future increments shall be given effect to only fromthe date of actual accrual.The amendment hereby made shall be deemed to have come into force on 1st January1974.[G .O. Ms. No. 38, Finance (F.R.I), dated 11th January 1977.][G.O. Ms. No. 803, Personnel and Administrative Reforms (F.R.I.), dated 13th July 1978.]43