The President of India has amended the Central Civil Services (Joining Time) Rules, 1979, through the Central Civil Service (Joining Time) Amendment Rules, 1989. These amendments address scenarios where government servants join new posts without utilizing their full joining time entitlement. Specifically, the rules clarify the crediting of joining time as earned leave when an employee is directed to join a new posting without full joining time or proceeds alone and is later joined by their family within the allowable timeframe for travel allowances. The total earned leave and unavailed joining time credited cannot exceed 240 days. These rules came into effect upon publication in the Official Gazette.
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New Delhi, the $10^{\text {th }}$ March, 1989
G.S.R. 197. – In exercise of the powers conferred by the proviso to article 309 read with clause (5) of article 148 of the constitution and after consultation with the Comptroller and Auditor General of India in relation to persons serving in the Indian Audit and Accounts Department, the President hereby makes the following rules further to amend the Central Civil Services (Joining Time) Rules, 1979, namely :-
- (1) These rules may be called the Central Civil Service (Joining Time) Amendment Rules, 1989.
(2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette. - In the Central Civil Services (Joining Time) Rules, 1979 for sub-rule (1) of rule the following sub-rule shall be substituted, namely :-
(1) When a Government servant joins a new post at a new post without availing full joining time by reasons that:-
(a) he is ordered to join the new post at a new place of posting without availing of full joining time to which he is entitled ; or
(b) he proceeds alone to the new place of posting and joins the post without availing full joining time and takes his family later within the permissible period of time for claiming travelling allowance for the family :-
The number of days of joining time admissible under sub-rule (4) of rule 5 of the Central Civil Services (Joining Time) Rules, 1979, subject to a maximum of 15 days reduced by the number of days of joining time actually availed of shall be credited to his leave account as earned leave;
Provided that the earned leave at his credit together with the unavailed joining time allowed to be so credited shall not exceed 240 days.
[No. 19011/12/86-Estt.(Allow.)]
Note:- The Principal Rules were published in the Gazette of India, Part-II Section 3, subsection (i) vide G.S.R. No.695, dated 15-9-1979.