അനുബന്ധം XIIC

APPENDIX XII C  

RULES FOR THE GRANT OF LEAVE WITHOUT ALLOWANCES  

FOR JOINING SPOUSE  

(Referred to in Exception 2 to Rule 88 and in Rule 110-D, Part I) 

 

* The following rules shall regulate the grant of leave without allowances for the purpose of joining spouse.
1. Only leave without allowances shall be granted for the purpose.
Note.-Officers, who seek leave for short periods, not exceeding three months for the purpose of joining spouse, may be granted ordinary leave subject to eligibility. However, when officers who avail of such leave upto three months, seek extension in continuation of the leave for the same purpose, the ordinary leave already granted shall be retrospectively commuted into leave without allowances under these rules.
2. Officers shall not accept any employment during the currency of the period of leave, without prior sanction of the Government.
3. No other kind of leave except leave under Appendix XIIA shall be granted in combination with or in continuation of the leave under these rules.
4. @ Permanent officers and non-permanent officers in the regular service of Government who have completed probation in the grade in which they are working, including entry cadre, may be granted leave without allowances under these rules. In such cases, for, and during the currency of the period of leave, the officers shall lose all service benefits including earning of leave, increment, gratuity, pension etc., and also promotion chances as may arise with reference to their seniority in the posts from
@ [Substitution G O(P) No. 94/2010/Fin., Dated 01/03/2010 (with effect from 01/03/2010)]
\which they proceed on leave. They shall also lose seniority in the
higher grade (s) with reference to their juniors who might get promoted
to such grade (s) before they rejoin duty.
*Note.- The Officers who have entered on Leave Without Allowances prior
to 9th day of April, 2008 will be granted further extension of Leave Without
Allowance without the declaration of probation in the entry cadre
subject to the condition that, such officers will forfeit the Service
benefits that had accrued to them prior to their proceeding on leave and
they will be deemed as new entrants to Government Service and they
will have to start service afresh and complete their probation satisfactorily
on return from Leave Without Allowance. Only their right to rejoin
Government Service in the same entry cadre is protected, as if, they
were new entrants in service.
4A †Permanent and non-permanent officers in the regular service of
Government who have completed probation in their entry grade,
but have not completed probation in the grade in which they are
working may be granted leave without allowances subject to the
condition that they will lose service benefits such as earning of
leave including Half Pay Leave, pension, gratuity, increment etc.,
and also promotion chances that may arise with reference to their
seniority in that grade for and during the currency of the leave
period and will have to rejoin as the junior most in that grade and
start afresh. They shall also lose seniority in the higher grade/
grades with respect to their juniors who might get promoted to
such grade/grades before they rejoin duty. However, their prior
*[Inserted G O(P) No. 636/2010/Fin., Dated 25/11/2010 (with effect from 09/04/2008)]
†[Inserted G O(P) No. 94/2010/Fin., Dated 01/03/2010 (with effect from 01.03.2010)]
service including that in the grade will count for accrual of Half Pay
Leave, Earned Leave; time bound grade promotion, increment and
pension.
5. # Omitted
*6. The maximum period of leave that may be sanctioned to officers under
these rules, including the leave sanctioned under Appendix XIIA, if
any, during their entire service shall be limited to twenty years **and
such leave shall not extend beyond twelve months before their date of
superannuation. If the officers who have availed of the Leave Without
Allowances for a total period of twenty years, whether continuously
or in broken periods, do not return to duty immediately on the expiry of
the leave, their service shall be terminated after following the procedure
laid down in Kerala Civil Services (Classification, Control and Appeal)
Rules, 1960.
*This shall be deemed to have come into force w.e.f. 9th May, 1997
**This shall be deemed to have come into force w.e.f. 2nd May, 2002.
7. Those who are under bonded obligation to serve the Government for a
prescribed period, shall not be granted leave under these rules till the
period covered by the bond is over or till the bonded obligation is
settled.
8. Those who have any outstanding liability to the Government, such as
House Building Advance, Conveyance Advance etc., shall not be
granted leave under these rules unless they clear the outstanding
liability in toto or execute a bond as prescribed by the Government.
†Those who are subscribers of Group Insurance Scheme shall be
permitted to remit the arrear subscription for the defaulted period, with
the savings fund, in not more than three instalments, provided they have not attained the age of 50 years, on rejoining duty, after obtaining Government sanction. Such members shall lose their entitlement under the insurance fund in the event of death during the period of leave under this rule. Those who have attained the age of 50 years on the date of joining duty on expiry of Leave Without Allowances shall cease to be a subscriber of the scheme and shall be entitled for the accrued balance under savings fund only at the time of retirement.

# [Deletion G O(P) No. 636/2010/Fin., Dated 25/11/2010 (with effect from 09/04/2008)]

* [Substitution G O(P) No. 636/2002/Fin., Dated 19/10/2002]

**[G O(P) No.215/2005/Fin., Dated 11/05/2005]

†[Substitution G O(P) No.217/2012/Fin., Dated 11/04/2012 (with effect from 02/08/2007)]

9. Officers against whom disciplinary action or vigilance enquiry is pending

shall not be eligible for leave under these rules.

10. Those officers who absent themselves unauthorisedly without getting

the leave sanctioned under these rules shall be proceeded against and

their service shall be terminated after following the procedure laid down

in the Kerala Civil Services (Classification, Control and Appeal) Rules,

1960.

*This amendment shall be deemed to have come into force with effect

from 12th April 1984

*[G O(P) No. 1002/1997/Fin., Dated 06/11/1997]