F.R. & S.R. – PART III - Leave Rules

CENTRAL CIVIL SERVICES (LEAVE) RULES, 1972

Chapter V - Special Kinds of Leave Other than Study Leave

43. Maternity Leave:

(1) A female Government servant (including an apprentice) with less than two surviving children may be granted maternity leave by an authority competent to grant leave for a period of ¹[180 days] from the date of its commencement.

(2) During such period, she shall be paid leave salary equal to the pay drawn immediately before proceeding on leave.

NOTE:- In the case of a person to whom Employees’ State Insurance Act, 1948 (34 of 1948), applies, the amount of leave salary payable under this rule shall be reduced by the amount of benefit payable under the said Act for the corresponding period.

²[(3) Maternity leave not exceeding 45 days may also be granted to a female Government servant (irrespective of the number of surviving children) during the entire service of that female Government in case of miscarriage including abortion on production of medical certificate as laid down in Rule 19:

Provided that the maternity leave granted and availed of before the commencement of the CCS (Leave) Amendment Rules, 1995, shall not be taken into account for the purpose of this sub-rule.]

(4) (a) Maternity leave may be combined with leave of any other kind.

(b) Notwithstanding the requirement of production of medical certificate contained in sub-rule (1) of Rule 30 or sub-rule (1) of Rule 31, leave of the kind due and admissible (including commuted leave for a period not exceeding 60 days and leave not due) up to a maximum of ³[two years] may, if applied for, be granted in continuation of maternity leave granted under sub-rule (1).

(5) Maternity leave shall not be debited against the leave account.

⁴[43-A. Paternity leave:

(1) A male Government servant (including an apprentice) with less than two surviving children, may be granted Paternity Leave by an authority competent to grant leave for a period of 15 days, during the confinement of his wife for childbirth, i.e., up to 15 days before, or up to six months from the date of delivery of the child.

(2) During such period of 15 days, he shall be paid leave salary equal to the pay drawn immediately before proceeding on leave.

(3) The paternity Leave may be combined with leave of any other kind.

(4) The paternity leave shall not be debited against the leave account.

(5) If Paternity Leave is not availed of within the period specified in sub-rule (1), such leave shall be treated as lapsed.

NOTE:- The Paternity Leave shall not normally be refused under any circumstances.]

⁵[43-AA. Paternity Leave for Child Adoption. -

(1) A male Government servant (including an apprentice) with less than two surviving children, on valid adoption of a child below the age of one year, may be granted Paternity Leave for a period of 15 days within a period of six months from the date of valid adoption.

(2) During such period of 15 days, he shall be paid leave salary equal to the pay drawn immediately before proceeding on leave.

(3) The paternity leave may be combined with leave of any other kind.

(4) The Paternity Leave shall not be debited against the leave account.

(5) If Paternity leave is not availed of within the period specified in sub-rule (1) such leave shall be treated as lapsed.

⁶[Note 1]: - The Paternity Leave shall not normally be refused under any circumstances.]

⁷[Note 2: - "Child" for the purpose of this rule will include a child taken as ward by the Government servant, under the Guardians and Wards Act, 1890 or the personal law applicable to that Government servant, provided such a ward lives with the Government servant and is treated as a member of the family and provided such Government servant has, through a special will, conferred upon that ward the same status as that of a natural born child.]

⁸[43-B. Leave to a female Government servant on adoption of a child:

(1) A female Government servant, with fewer than two surviving children, on valid adoption of a child below the age of one year may be granted child adoption leave, by an authority competent to grant leave, for a period of ⁹[180 days] immediately after the date of valid adoption.

(2) During the period of child adoption leave, she shall be paid leave salary equal to the pay drawn immediately before proceeding on leave.

(3) (a) Child adoption leave may be combined with leave of any other kind.

(b) In continuation of the child adoption leave granted under sub-rule (1), a female Government servant on valid adoption of a child may also be granted, if applied for, leave of the kind due and admissible (including leave not due and commuted leave not exceeding 60 days without production of medical certificate) for a period upto one year reduced by the age of the adopted child on the date of valid adoption, without taking into account child adoption leave.

Provided that this facility shall not be admissible in case she is already having two surviving children at the time of adoption.

(4) Child adoption leave shall not be debited against the leave account.]

¹⁰[Note: - “Child” for the purpose of this rule will include a child taken as ward by the Government servant, under the Guardians and Wards Act, 1890 or the personal Law applicable to that Government servant, provided such a ward lives with the Government servant and is treated as a member of the family and provided such Government servant has, through a special will, conferred upon that ward the same status as that of a natural born child.]

¹¹[43-C. Child Care Leave. -

(1) A woman Government servant having minor children below the age of eighteen years and who has no earned leave at her credit, may be granted child care leave by an authority competent to grant leave, for a maximum period of two years, i.e., 730 days during the entire service for taking care of upto two children whether for rearing or to look after any of their needs like examination, sickness, etc.

(2) During the period of child care leave, she shall be paid leave salary equal to the pay drawn immediately before proceeding on leave.

(3) Child care leave may be combined with Leave of any other kind.

(4) Notwithstanding the requirement of production of medical certificate contained in sub-rule (1) of rule 30 or sub-rule (1) of rule 31, leave of the kind due and admissible (including commuted leave not exceeding 60 days and leave not due) upto a maximum of one year, if applied for, be granted in continuation with child care leave granted under sub-rule (1).

(5) Child care leave may be availed of in more than one spell.

(6) Child care leave shall not be debited against the leave account.]

44. Special disability leave for injury intentionally inflicted:

(1) The authority competent to grant leave may grant special disability leave to a Government servant (whether permanent or temporary) who is disabled by injury intentionally inflicted or caused in, or in consequence of the due performance of his official duties or in consequence of his official position.

(2) Such leave shall not be granted unless the disability manifested itself within three months of the occurrence to which it is attributed and the person disabled acted with due promptitude in bringing it to notice:

Provided that the authority competent to grant leave may, if it is satisfied as to the cause of the disability, permit leave to be granted in cases where the disability manifested itself more than three months after the occurrence of its cause.

(3) The period of leave granted shall be such as is certified by an Authorized Medical Attendant and shall in no case exceed 24 months;

(4) Special disability leave may be combined with leave of any other kind.

(5) Special disability leave may be granted more than once if the disability is aggravated or reproduced in similar circumstances at later date, but not more than 24 months of such leave shall be granted in consequence of any on disability.

(6) Special disability leave shall be counted as duty in calculating service for pension and shall not, except the leave granted under the proviso to Clause (b) of sub-rule(7), be debited against the leave account.

(7) Leave salary during such leave shall:

(a) for the first 120 days of any period of such leave, including a period of such leave granted under sub-rule (5), be equal for leave salary while on earned leave;

(b) for the remaining period of any such leave, be equal to leave salary during half pay leave:

Provided that a Government servant may, at his option, be allowed leave salary as in sub-rule (a) for a period not exceeding another 120 days, and in the event the period of such leave shall be debited to his half pay leave account.

NOTE:- Leave salary in respect of special disability leave granted to a Government servant who has rendered service under more than one Government may be apportioned between the Governments in accordance with the normal rules.

(8) (a) In the case of a person to whom the Workmen’s Compensation Act, 1923 (8 of 1923), applies, the amount of leave salary payable under this rule shall be reduced by the amount of compensation payable under Clause (d) of sub-section (1) of Section 4 of the said Act.

(b) In the case of a person to whom the Employees’ State Insurance Act, 1948 (34 of 1948), applies the amount of leave salary payable under this rule shall be reduced by the amount of benefit payable under the said Act for the corresponding period.

(9) (a)The provisions of this rule shall also apply-

(i) to a civil Government servant disabled in consequences of service with a military force, if he is discharged as unfit for further military service, but is not completely and permanently incapacitated for further civil service; and

(ii) to a civil servant not so discharged who suffers a disability which is certified by a Medical Board to be directly attributed to his service with a military force.

(b) In either case, any period of leave granted to such a person under military rules in respect of that disability shall be reckoned as leave granted under this rule for the purpose of calculating the period admissible.

45. Special disability leave for accidental injury:

(1) The provisions of Rule 44 shall apply also to a Government servant whether permanent or temporary, who is disabled by injury accidentally incurred in, or in consequence of, the due performance of his official duties or in consequence of his official position, or by illness incurred in the performance of any particular duty, which has the effect of increasing his liability to illness or injury beyond the ordinary risk attaching to the civil post which he holds.

(2) The grant of special disability leave in such case shall be subject to the further conditions:-

(i) That the disability, if due to disease, must be certified by an Authorized Medical Attendant to be directly due to the performance of the particular duty;

(ii) that, if the Government servant has contracted such disability during service otherwise than with a military force, it must be, in the opinion of the authority competent to sanction leave, exceptional in character’ and

(iii) that the period of absence recommended by an Authorized Medical Attendant may be covered in part, by leave under this rule and in part by any other kind of leave, and that the amount of special disability leave granted on leave salary equal to that admissible on earned leave shall not exceed 120 days.

46. Hospital leave:

(1) The authority competent to grant leave may grant hospital leave to:

(a) Class IV Government servants, and

(b) such Class III Government servants whose duties involve the handling of dangerous machinery, explosive materials, poisonous drugs and the like, or the performance of hazardous tasks,

while under medical treatment in a hospital or otherwise, for illness or injury if such illness or injury is directly due to risks incurred in the course of their official duties.

(2) Hospital leave shall be granted on the production of medical certificate from an Authorized Medical Attendant.

(3) Hospital leave may be granted for such period as the authority granting it may consider necessary, on leave salary –

(i) equal to leave salary while on earned leave, for the first 120 days of any period of such leave; and

(ii) equal to leave salary during half pay leave, for the remaining period of any such leave.

(4) Hospital leave shall not be debited against the leave account and may be combined with any other kind of leave whish may be admissible provided the total period of leave, after such combination, does not exceed 28 months.

(5)(a) In the case of a person to whom the Workmen’s Compensation Act, 1923 (8 of 1923), applies, the amount of leave salary payable under this rule shall be reduced by the amount of compensation payable under Clause (d) of sub section 1) of Section 4 of the said Act.

(b) In the case of person to whom the Employees’ State Insurance Act, 1948 (34 of 1948), applies, the amount of leave salary payable under this rule shall be reduced by the amount of benefit payable under the said Act for the corresponding period.

47. Seamen’s sick leave:

(1) A Government servant serving as an officer, warrant officer or petty officer on a Government vessel may, while undergoing medical treatment for sickness or injury, either on his vessel or in hospital, be granted leave, by an authority competent to grant leave, on leave salary equal to full pay for a period not exceeding six weeks:

Provided that such shall not be granted if a Government Medical officer certifies that the Government servant is malingering or that his ill health is due to drunkenness or similar self-indulgence or to his own action in willfully causing or aggravating disease or injury.

(2) A seaman disabled in the exercise of his duty may be allowed leave on leave salary equal to full pay for a maximum period not exceeding three months, if the following conditions are fulfilled, namely:-

(a) a Government Medical Officer must certify the disability;

(b) the disability must not be due to the seaman’s own carelessness or inexperience;

(3) (a) In the case of a person to whom the Workmen’s Compensation Act, 1923 (8of 1923), applies, the amount of leave salary payable under this rule shall be reduced by the amount of compensation payable under Clause (d) of sub-section (1) of Section 4 of the said Act.

(b) In the case of a person to whom the Employees’ State Insurance Act, 1948 (34 of 1948), applies, the amount of leave salary payable under this rule shall be reduced by the amount of benefit payable under the said Act for the corresponding period.

48. Deleted.

49. Departmental Leave:

(1) Departmental leave may be granted to:-

(a) Class III Government servants (other than Division I staff and Clerks) and to Class IV Government servants in the Survey of India, attached to Survey Parties with field and recess duties:

(b) members of the seasonal staff in the Posts and Telegraphs Department, whose duties are not continuous but are limited to certain fixed period in each year.

(2) In addition to leave due and admissible, departmental leave may be granted only to Government servants whose services are temporarily not required.

(3)(a) Departmental leave with leave salary may be granted during the recess by the Head of the Party or Office to which the Government servant belongs in the Survey of India or an authority not lower than the Divisional Superintendent of Post Offices in the Posts and Telegraphs Department, as the case may be provided the authority granting the leave considers in the case of a Class IV Government servant that it is desirable to re-employ the Government servant in the ensuing season.

(b) Leave so granted may, in special cases, be extended by the Surveyor–General or the Postmaster-General or the Director of Posts and Telegraphs, as the case may be, up to a maximum of eighteen months in all.

(4) (a) Departmental leave with leave salary may be granted at times other than the recess, for not more than six months at a time, by directors in the Survey of India, provided the leave is granted in the interests of Government and not at the request of the Government servant.

(b) Leave so granted may, in special cases, be extended by the Surveyor-General up to a maximum of one year in all.

(5) Where the President by general or special order so authorizes, departmental leave without leave salary may be granted by the Surveyor-General or the Postmaster-General or the Director of Posts and Telegraphs, as the case may be, in continuation of the departmental leave with leave salary.

(6)(a) A Government servant on Departmental Leave with leave salary shall be paid leave salary equal to 25 per cent of the said salary admissible during the earned leave under sub-rule (1) of Rule 40. No allowance, other than Dearness Allowance, shall be admissible on such leave salary.

(b) A Government servant while on departmental leave with leave salary shall be paid leave salary at the end of each month up to first six months and thereafter it shall be paid when the Government servant returns to duty:

Provided that where a Government servant dies while on departmental leave, his leave salary up to the date of his death, or the last day of such leave with leave salary, whichever is earlier, shall be paid to his heirs.

(7) Departmental leave does not count as duty and such leave shall not be debited to his leave account.

(8) Departmental leave may be granted when no leave is due.

(9) Departmental leave may be combined with any other kind of leave which may be due.

(10)(a) When a Government servant to whom these rules apply, holds a post in which the Surveyor-General or the Postmaster-General or the Director of Posts and Telegraphs, as the case may be (hereinafter in this sub-rule referred to as the authority) considers that he is unlikely to be eligible for departmental leave in future, the authority may, by order in writing, declare that, with effect from such date, not being earlier than the Government servant’s last return from departmental leave, as the authority may fix, any balance of leave at debit in the Government servant’s leave account should be cancelled.

(b) All leave earned after such date shall be credited as due in the Government servant’s leave account and all leave taken after such date, including departmental leave with leave salary, if any, shall be debited in it.

NOTE:- This sub-rule applies to cases of Government servants who have debit balance in their leave account due to their availing of departmental leave before the 1st November, 1973, when departmental leave with leave salary used to be debited to leave account.

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