(Pb. Ord.
LXXVII of 2002)
[28
October 2002]
An Ordinance to provide for appointment,
salary, allowances and privileges of Advisors to the Chief Minister of the
Punjab.
Preamble.– Whereas it is expedient to provide for
appointment, salary, allowances and privileges of Advisors to the Chief
Minister of the Punjab;
And whereas the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab is dissolved and the Governor is
satisfied that circumstances exist which render it necessary to take immediate
action;
And whereas
under Article 4 of the Provisional Constitution (Amendment) Order No.9 of 1999,
as amended by the Chief Executive’s Order No.11 of 2000, the Governor of a
Province may issue and promulgate an Ordinance;
Now, therefore, in exercise of the aforesaid powers and all
other powers enabling him in that behalf, the Governor of the Punjab is pleased
to make and promulgate the following Ordinance:-
1. Short title and commencement.– (1)
This Ordinance may be called the Punjab Advisors (Salary, Allowances and
Privileges) Ordinance, 2002.
(2) It shall come into force at once.
2. Definitions.– In this Ordinance, unless the subject or
context otherwise requires, the following expressions shall have the meanings
hereby assigned to them respectively:
(a) “Advisor”
means a person appointed as Advisor to the Chief Minister under this Ordinance;
(b) “Chief
Minister” means the Chief Minister of the Punjab;
(c) “family”
means the wife and children residing with and wholly dependent upon the
Advisor;
(d) “Government”
means the Government of the Punjab;
(e) “maintenance”
in relation to a residence includes the payment of local rates, tax and the
provision of electricity, water and gas;
(f) “official
residence” means the house reserved from time to time for residence by an
Advisor and includes out houses and gardens appurtenant thereto; and
(g) “prescribed”
means prescribed by rules framed under this Ordinance.
3. Appointment and term of
office.– (1) The Chief
Minister may appoint not more than five Advisors who shall hold office during
the pleasure of the Chief Minister.
(2) An Advisor shall perform such functions
as may be assigned to him by the Chief Minister.
4. Salary.– The salary of an Advisor shall be thirty
thousand rupees per month.
5. Sumptuary allowance.– An
Advisor shall be entitled to get four thousand rupees per month as sumptuary
allowance.
6. Transport.– An Advisor to the
Chief Minister shall be entitled to the use of one official car throughout his
term of office and for a period of fifteen days immediately thereafter;
provided that the Chief Minister may withhold this facility to an Advisor who
is removed from his office on the ground of misconduct.
7. Official residence.– (1) An Advisor shall be entitled, without
payment of rent, to the use of an official residence including accommodation on
tour throughout his term of office, and for a period of fifteen days
immediately thereafter, and the charges for its maintenance including the
electricity and gas charges shall be borne by Government. The residence shall
be furnished by Government at a cost not exceeding one hundred thousand rupees.
(2) If at the time of entering upon office,
an official residence is not available, an Advisor shall, until such residence
is provided by Government, be paid the actual expenditure incurred by him on
furnished accommodation for himself and his family, subject to a maximum of
twenty thousand rupees per month.
(3) Where an Advisor chooses to reside–
(i) in his own house; or
(ii) in a rented house occupied by him before his appointment as an
Advisor;
he may be paid a monthly sum of twenty thousand rupees in lieu of the
official furnished accommodation and to cover all expenses on its maintenance.
The charges for consumption of electricity and gas in respect of the said house
shall be borne by Government.
8. Travelling allowance.– (1)
Subject to the provisions made hereafter an Advisor travelling on official duty
shall be treated as a first grade officer.
(2) An Advisor may, if the public interest
so demands, travel by air in which case he shall be entitled to -
(a) business
class airfare paid for himself;
(b) cost of transporting personal luggage up to
forty five kilograms, inclusive of the free allowance given by the air company;
(c) take
with himself the spouse when travelling by a commercial aeroplane; and
(d) claim the actual premium paid for insuring
himself for the air journey for an amount not exceeding one lac rupees.
(3) Wherever possible an Advisor shall
purchase return air ticket.
(4) An Advisor, when travelling on duty by
rail in Pakistan, shall be entitled to –
(a) requisition
at the cost of Government -
(i) an ordinary first-cum-second class carriage or a ‘B’ class
tourist car or an ‘A’ class tourist car, if a ‘B’ class tourist car is not
available; or
(ii) if the vehicles specified at (i) above are not available, or
are not desired an ordinary four berthed first class compartment or a two
berthed air-conditioned (coupe) compartment;
(b) take
with himself in the reserved accommodation without payment of any fair, his
family members not exceeding four when traveling in a requisitioned railway
compartment or saloon;
(c) take
with himself up to two personal servants by the lowest class of accommodation
available; and
(d) the carriage of personal luggage up to one
hundred and twenty kilograms when travelling by a railway compartment or up to
two hundred and forty kilograms when travelling by a requisitioned
railway saloon.
(5) An Advisor reserving accommodation in
the railway shall be required before beginning the journey, to have the number
and other details of the tickets purchased for the persons travelling with him
in the reserved accommodation entered in the requisition form by the station
master of the station from where the journey is to commence.
(6) When an Advisor travels on duty, in the
public interest, by road between places connected by Railway and chooses to
forego the privileges granted under sub-section (4), he may, where the journey
is performed in a vehicle not owned or maintained by Government, draw –
(a) travelling allowance at the rate of three
rupees per kilometer for his own journey by road, and
(b) actual expenses of transport of -
(i) two private servants; and
(ii) all his personal luggage including stores
carried for consumption on tour.
9. Form of Certificate.– Every claim by an Advisor for travelling
allowance or daily allowance shall be supported by a written certificate in the
following form signed by him:
“Certified that the amount has not been
claimed by me in any other bill or drawn by me from any other source.”
10. Additional travelling
allowance.– Notwithstanding anything contained in section 8, an
Advisor shall also be entitled to a sum of forty thousand rupees per
annum for travel by him or his family within Pakistan at any time:
Provided
that, where a person becomes an Advisor during the course of the year, the
value of cash with which he is provided during that year shall not exceed the
value which bears the same proportion to forty thousand rupees as the
un-expired portion of the year bears to a year.
11. Compensation in case of
air accident.– (1) If an
Advisor, while travelling by air, on official duty, by any flight, scheduled or
unscheduled (including flight in a Government owned aircraft of any type), dies
or receives an injury as a result of an accident, Government shall pay to the
persons referred to in sub-section (2), a sum of three hundred thousand rupees,
in case of death, and an amount to be determined by Government having regard to
scales of compensation applied by insurance companies in like cases, in case of
injury.
(2) The compensation shall be payable in
case of injury to the Advisor and in case of death, to such member or members
of his family, or if there be no such member, any other person or persons as
may be nominated by him in this behalf, or, in the absence of such nomination,
to his heirs:
Provided that the
nominee shall distribute the amount received by him among the heirs of the
deceased.
(3) A nomination under sub-section (2) may
be made, revoked or altered by a notice in writing signed by the Advisor and
addressed to the Accountant General, Punjab.
12. Daily
allowance.– An Advisor shall, while on tour be entitled to receive a daily
allowance at the rate of five hundred and fifty rupees per day:
Provided that where the duration of tour is
less than eight hours, one half daily allowance shall be admissible.
13. Controlling Officer.– The Minister Finance shall, for purposes of
travelling allowances, be the Controlling Officer of an Advisor.
14. Travelling allowance for
tour abroad.– An Advisor
travelling on official business outside Pakistan shall be entitled to first
class air fare and such allowance as may be specified by Government.
[2][2][15. Medical facilities.– An Advisor shall be
entitled, for himself and for his parents, spouse, real and step sons and
daughters, wholly dependent upon him, to medical facilities admissible in terms
of the Special Medical Attendance Rules, 1950.]
16. Leave.–
(a) The
Chief Minister may grant, to an Advisor during his term of office at any one
time or from time to time, leave of absence, for urgent reasons of health or
private affairs, for a period not exceeding three months in the aggregate.
(b) The
leave allowance of an Advisor shall be the same as his salary.
17. Personal Staff.– An Advisor, except while on leave, shall be
entitled to have such personal staff as may be sanctioned from time to time by
Government.
18. General.– (1) All reasonable precautions shall be
taken to see that the official residence, transport and furniture provided to
an Advisor by Government are used with the same care with which a person’s own
property is taken care of.
(2) All furniture and furnishing provided in
an official residence shall be marked by the Buildings Department, Punjab, for
the purpose of identification.
(3) When an Advisor occupies an official
residence, it shall be the duty of the officer concerned of the said Department
to hand over charge of the furniture and furnishings in that residence to the
Advisor or to a person authorized by him in writing according to an inventory
to be drawn up and signed by such officer.
(4) When an Advisor is about to vacate the official
residence, he shall inform the officer concerned of the said Department and
shall arrange that the furniture and furnishings of the official residence are
handed over to that officer according to an inventory to be drawn up and
signed.
19. Telephone.– An Advisor shall be entitled to one official
telephone at office and one official telephone at the residence, both for
official and private purposes; provided that the liability of Government in
respect of the telephone installed at the residence shall not exceed an amount
equal to eight thousand local calls.
20. Power
to make rules.– Government may, by notification in the official Gazette, make rules for
carrying out the purposes of this Ordinance.
[1][1]Promulgated by the Governor
of the Punjab on 28 October 2002; and published in the Punjab Gazette
(Extraordinary), dated 28 October 2002, pages 3125-29. Under Article 4 of the
Provisional Constitution (Amendment) Order 1999 (9 of 1999), it will remain in
force notwithstanding the maximum limit of three months prescribed under
Article 128 of the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.
[2][2]Substituted by the Punjab Revision of Medical
Facilities of Public Representatives Act 2006 (XV of 2006).
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