Rule 43 — GAR

43. Save as expressly provided by any general or special orders, a service department shall not make charges against another department for services or supplies which fall within the class of duties for which the former Departments is constituted. The following exceptions to this rule have been authorised:

(a) The Forest Department shall charge any other department for vegetable, animal or mineral products extracted from a forest area.

(b) Payment must ordinarily be made for convict labour as in the case of that supplied to the Public Works and other departments of Government but no charge shall be made for convict labour in the case of works undertaken by the Public Works Department which are treated as

Jail Works.

(c) The cost of additional Police Guards supplied to an Irrigation or other project while under construction shall be debited to the project concerned.

(d) The Film Division of the Government of India shall charge any other department for the cost of production of films and other services on such terms as may be settled in each case.

(e) The Central Industrial Security Force functioning under the Ministry of Home Affairs shall charge any other department for the cost of force provided, on such terms as may be settled in each case.

(f) When the Central Public Works Department executes works on behalf of other departments of the Government of India, the cost of which is debitable to the grant (Capital Portion) of those departments, it shall recover the establishment and tools and plant charges leviable on such works on a percentage basis, unless there are special orders of the Government to the contrary.

(g) When the Central Electricity Authority or the Central Water Commission including any office or division under its control executes works on behalf of other departments of the Government of India as an occasional arrangement, the cost of which is met from sources other than the expenditure heads (Revenue Account) of those departments it shall recover the establishment and tools and plant charges leviable on such works on percentage basis, unless there are special orders of the Government to the contrary.