Central Civil Services (Leave) Rules, 1972-DOPT
CENTRAL CIVIL SERVICES
LEAVE RULES
CHAPTER I- Preliminary
1. Short title and commencement
(1) These rules may be called the Central Civil Services (Leave) Rules, 1972.
(2) They shall come into force on the 1st day of June, 1972.
2. Extent of application
Save as otherwise provided in these rules, these rules shall apply to Government servants appointed to the civil services and posts in connection with the affairs of the Union, but shall not apply to-
➤Railway servants;
➤persons in casual or daily-rated or part-time employment;
➤persons paid from contingencies;
➤workmen employed in industrial establishments;
➤persons employed in work-charged establishments;
➤members of the All India Services;
➤persons locally recruited for service in Diplomatic, Consular or other Indian establishments in foreign countries;
➤persons employed on contract except when the contract provides otherwise;
➤persons in respect of whom special provisions have been made by or under the provisions of the Constitution or any other law for the time being in force;
➤persons governed, for purposes of leave, by the Fundamental Rules or the Civil Service Regulations;
➤persons serving under a Central Government Department, on deputation from a State Government or any other source, for a limited duration.
3. Definitions
(1) In these rules, unless the context otherwise requires-
(a) “Administrator” means an Administrator of a Union Territory;
(b) “Audit Officer” means the Accounts and Audit Officer, whatever his official designation, in whose circle the office of the Government servant is situated;
(c) “Authority competent to grant leave” means the authority specified in Column (3) of the First Schedule to these rules, competent to grant the kind of leave specified in the corresponding entries in Column (2) of the said Schedule;
(d) “Completed years of service” or “one year’s continuous service” means continuous service of specified duration under the Central Government and includes the period spent on duty as well as on leave including extraordinary leave;
(e) “Date of retirement” or “date of his retirement” in relation to a Government servant, means the afternoon of the last day of the month in which the Government servant attains the age prescribed for retirement under the terms and conditions governing his services.
(MOF Notification No. 5(7)-E.IV(A)/75 dated 02.12.1975)
(f) “Department of the Central Government” means a Ministry or a Department of the Central Government as notified from time to time and includes the Planning Commission, the Department of Parliamentary Affairs, the President’s Secretariat, the Vice-President’s Secretariat, the Cabinet Secretariat and the Prime Minister’s Secretariat;
(fa) “disability” means “specified disability”, “benchmark disability” and “disability having high support needs” as referred to in the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016 (49 of 2016).
(g) “Foreign service” means service in which a Government servant receives his pay with the sanction of Government from any source other than the Consolidated Fund of India or the Consolidated Fund of any State [or the Consolidated Fund of a Union Territory];
(h) “Form” means a Form appended to the Second Schedule to these rules;
(i) Government servant in quasi-permanent employ” means-
(A) an officer who, having been declared by the Union Public Service Commission to be eligible for appointment to the ministerial Services of the Government of India, has been appointed to a temporary or officiating vacancy on the understanding given to him in writing before he took up the appointment, that that vacancy is expected to become permanent but is not confirmed after completion of three years continuous service;
(B) an officer who may be declared as quasi-permanent under the Central Civil Services (Temporary Services) Rules, 1965.
(j) “Government servant in permanent employ” means an officer who holds substantively or provisionally substantively a permanent post or who holds a lien on a permanent post or who would have held a lien on permanent post had the lien not been suspended;
(k) “Head of Mission” means Ambassador, Charge d’ Affaires, Minister, Consul-General, High Commissioner or any other authority declared as such by the Central Government, in the country in which the Government servant undergoes a course of study or training;
(l) “Military Officer” means an officer of the Armed Forces who is-
(i) a Commissioned Officer of the Army, the Navy or the Air Force, or
(ii) (a) a Junior Commissioned Officer (including an honorary commissioned officer), or an ‘other rank’ of the Army, or
(b) a Branch List Officer or rating of the Navy, or
(c) an airman including a Master Warrant Officer of the Air Force;
(m) “Vacation Department” means a department or part of a department, to which regular vacations are allowed, during which Government servants serving in the department are permitted to be absent from duty.
(2) Words and expressions used herein and not defined but defined in the Fundamental Rules and Supplementary Rules shall have the meanings respectively assigned to them in the Fundamental Rules and Supplementary Rules.
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