Rule 45 — CCS
Original Rule Text
45. Omitted. 46. Omitted. 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‘
(c) the vacancy cause by his absence must not be filled. (3)
(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. 48. Special Leave connected to inquiry of sexual harassment (DOPT Notification No. 13026/2/2016-Estt.(L), dated 15.03.2017.) Leave up to a period of 90 days may be granted to an aggrieved female Government servant on the recommendation of the Internal Committee or the Local Committee, as the case maybe, during the pendency of inquiry under the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013 and the leave granted to the aggrieved female Government servant under this rule shall not be debited against the leave account.