Referred to in Rule 8.61)
Rules for the grant of Casual and Quarantine Leave
1.
Casual Leave
1. Casual leave may be granted to Government employees for short periods by
the authorities specified in Appendix 12 or by any officer under them to whom the
powers are delegated by the said authorities subject to the conditions therein stated as
follows:-
(1) Scale -Casual leave will be admissible as follows:-
(i) To employees with 10 years' service or less
... 10 days
(ii) To employees with more than 10 years Service
but less than 20 years service
... 15 days
(iii) To employees with over 20 years service ...20 days
(iv) To all female Government employees
irrespective of their length of service
...20 days.
(2) How calculated.-From the date on which an employee completes his 10
20 year of service, as the case may be. he will be given leave in that year according
to the next higher scale. Thus it an employee completes 10 years service on the 30
April. 1963 he will be entitled to 15 days casual leave for the entire year 1963. Length
of service will be assessed as in note below Rule 8.116 of Punjab C. S. R. Volume 1,
Part I.
(3) Accounting of Casual Leave.-The casual leave account will be maintained
annually from the 15 of January to 31" of December. All casual leave accounts will be
closed on the 31" December and new accounts opened on the 1" of January, following.
irrespective of the fact that an official takes a spell of casual leave which includes the
last few days of December, and the first few days of January. Thus it an official takes
leave from the 26 December, 1959. to 5 January. 1960. the period 26 December to
319 December will be debited to his leave account for the year 1959 and the period !"
January to the 5" January, 1960 will be debited to his leave account for the year 1960.
(4) Length of leave and Combination of leave.-In taking casual leave, within
the limits admissible above, an employee may remain continuously absent from duty
for a maximum of 16 days. In this spell he will be permitted to include holidays
which will not be debited to his casual leave account. The total spell, however, should
in no case exceed 16 days. The balance of the casual leave can be taken in driblets. It
may be emphasised that it is desirable, but not compulsory for Government employees
to take such a spell. Where a Government employee desires to take such a
spell permission should not ordinarily be refused although of course the competent authority may adjust the dates on which the spell is taken for administrative convenience.
