Punjab Police Rules Volume 1 - Sangrur Police

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Rule 10.3
10.3. Definitions. - The technical terms in this chapter are used in the sense in which
they are defined in the Accounts Manuals referred to in rule 10.1(a). Those definitions
should be understood by all gazetted officers, clerks and accountants. Only a few such
definitions a knowledge of which is required by officers to whom the manuals are not accessible,
are reproduced here :
(a) General definitions
Average pay means the average monthly pay earned during the 12 complete months immediately
preceding the month in which the event occurs, which necessitates the
calculation of average :
Provided that in the case of a Government servant deputed out of India who draws
pay as laid down in rule 51(a) of Punjab Financial Handbook No. 2. Volume I,
his average pay shall be assumed to be the full pay which he would have drawn
if on duty in India. [Rule 9(2), Punjab Financial Handbook No. 2, Volume I].
Compensatory allowance means an allowance granted to meet personal expenditure necessitated
by the special circumstances in which duty is performed. It includes a
travelling allowance. A compensatory allowance is not taken into account in calculating
pension, or leave salary for periods exceeding four months. [Rule 9(5), Punjab Financial
Handbook No. 2, Volume I, Article 488, Civil Service Regulations and Rule 14.2., Subsidiary
Rules].
Special pay means an addition, of the nature of pay, to the emoluments of a post or of
a Government servant, granted in consideration of -
(a) the specially arduous nature of the duties; or
(b) a specific addition to the work or responsibility; or
(c) the unhealthiness of the locality in which the work is performed. [Rule 9(25),
Fundamental Rules].
Special pay is taken into account in calculating pension and leave salary [Article 486 (j),
Civil Service Regulations and Rule 9.21(a)(ii) read with rule 87, Fundamental Rules].
Subsistence grant means a monthly grant made to a Government servant, who is not in
receipt of pay or leave salary. [Rule 9(27) of the Fundamental Rules].
(b) Definitions specially applicable to travelling allowance.
Actual travelling expenses means the actual cost of transporting a Government servant
with his servants and personal luggage, including charges for ferry and other tolls, and for
carriage of camp equipment, if necessary. It does not include charges for hotels, travellers’
bungalows, of refreshments, or for the carriage of stores or conveyance, or for
presents to coachmen and the like; or any allowance for such incidental losses or expenses
as the breakage of crockery, wear and tear of furniture and the employment of additional
servants. (Rule 1.1, T.A. Rules.)
Camp equipment means tents and the requisites for pitching and furnishing them, or,
where tents are not carried, such articles of camp furniture as it may be necessary in the
interests of the public service for a Government servant to take with him on tour. (Rule
1.5, T.A. Rules.)
Chief public office means -
At the headquarters of a district - The court of the Deputy Commissioner.
At a cantonment. - The station Church.
At an outpost or tahsil. - The court of the officer incharge of the outpost or tahsil.
At all other places. - The police station, or, if there be no police station, the post office
or, if there be no post office, the point designated by competent authority.
(Rule 1.6, T.A. Rules.)
Day means a calendar day, beginning and ending at midnight; but the period occupied