| Half Pay Leave |
- Up to 31-12-1985. - Calculated at 20 days for each completed year of service. Service includes periods of duty and leave including extraordinary leave with or without MC, but does not include periods of suspension treated as dies non, overstayal of leave/joining time unless otherwise regularized.
- From 1-1-1986, half pay leave is credited in advance at the rate of 10 days on the 1st of January and 1st of July every year. The advance credit for the half-year in which the Government servant is appointed will be at the rate of 5/3 days for each completed calendar month of service he is likely to render in the half-year in which he is appointed.
- The half pay leave to be credited every half-year will be reduced at the rate of one-eighteenth of the period of dies non/suspension treated as dies non, during the preceding half-year, subject to a maximum of ten days.
- The credit for the half-year in which a Government servant is due to retire/resigns will be afforded at the rate of 5/3 days for each completed calendar month of service in that half-year up to date of retirement/resignation.
- The credit for the half-year in which a Government servant is removed/dismissed from service will be afforded at the rate of 5/3 days per completed calendar month up to the end of the calendar month preceding the last calendar month of service. In the case of death of a Government servant while in service, credit will be afforded at the rate of 5/3 per completed calendar month up to the date of death. - Rule 29 (2) (c) and (ca).
- Half pay leave can be availed either with or without medical certificate. - Rule 29 (4).
- The grant of half pay leave to a temporary official is subject to the sanctioning authority satisfying himself that the official will return to duty after its expiry. This condition is not applicable where such official is declared completely and permanently incapacitated for further service. - Proviso to Rule 29.
- While affording credit, fraction shall be rounded off to the nearest day. - Rule 29 (5).
