THE
(Ordinance LXXVII of 2002)
C O N T E N T S
Section Heading
1. Short title and commencement.
2. Definitions.
3. Appointment and term of office.
4. Salary.
5. Sumptuary Allowance.
6. Transport.
7. Official residence.
8. Travelling Allowance.
9. Form of Certificate.
10. [Omitted]
11. Compensation in case of air accident.
12. Daily Allowance.
13. Controlling Officer.
14. Travelling allowance for tour abroad.
15. Medical facilities.
16. Leave.
17. Personal Staff.
18. General.
19. Telephone.
20. Power to make rules.
[1]THE
(Ordinance
LXXVII of 2002)
[
An Ordinance to provide for appointment,
salary, allowances and privileges of Advisors to the Chief Minister of the
Preamble.– Whereas it
is expedient to provide for appointment, salary, allowances and privileges of
Advisors to the Chief Minister of the
And whereas the Provincial Assembly of the
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
(c) “family”
means the wife and children residing with and wholly dependent upon the
Advisor;
(d) “Government”
means the Government of the
(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.– [2][(1)]The salary of an Advisor
shall be [3][one hundred thousand] rupees per month.
[4][(2) The Government shall, by notification,
increase the salary mentioned in subsection (1) in proportion to the increase
in the salary of the civil servants of highest grade.
Explanation.– The
word “salary” in subsection (2) shall include any ad hoc relief or special
allowance provided to the civil servants of the highest grade, having the
effect of increase in the basic pay of the civil servants.]
5. Sumptuary allowance.–
An Advisor shall be entitled to get [5][fifteen 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
(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.”
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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,
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
[7][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,
(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]Promulgated by the
Governor of the
[2]Section 4
renumbered as sub-section (1) by the Punjab Public Representatives’ Laws
(Amendment) Act 2016 (XI of 2016) (effective from the 1st day of
July 2015).
[3]Substituted for the
words “thirty thousand” by the Punjab Public Representatives’ Laws (Amendment)
Act 2019 (XVI of 2019) (effective from the 1st day of July 2019).
[4]Sub-section (2)
added by the Punjab Public Representatives’ Laws (Amendment) Act 2016 (XI of
2016) (effective from the 1st day of July 2015).
[5]Substituted for the
words “four thousand” by the Punjab Public Representatives’ Laws (Amendment)
Act 2019 (XVI of 2019) (effective from the 1st day of July 2019).
[6]Omitted the
following by the Punjab Public Representatives’ Laws (Amendment) Act 2021
(XLVIII of 2021):
“10. Additional travelling allowance.–
Notwithstanding anything contained in section 8, an Advisor shall also be
entitled 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.”
[7]Substituted by the