Rule 44 — GAR

44. A commercial department or undertaking shall ordinarily charge and be charged for any supplies and services made or rendered to, or by, other departments of Government. This rule may be applied to particular units or particular activities of any department even though the department as a whole may not be a commercial department. Such a unit or activity shall ordinarily charge for its services or its supplies, to, and may likewise be charged by, either the department of which it forms a part or any other departments. NOTE 1:- Save as otherwise provided in these rules, services rendered by a service department falling under sub-rule A

(a) of rule 42 in the normal discharge of its functions shall not be regarded as service rendered for the purpose of this rule. NOTE 2:- The supply of residential accommodation by one department to the employees of another shall not for the purposes of the rules in this Chapter, be held to constitute a service rendered. In all such cases the rent charges for residential accommodation will be the rent recoverable under the rules for the time being in force from the persons actually using such accommodation. NOTE 3:- The Central Water Commission and the Central Electricity Authority shall charge commercial departments in respect of advice tendered or services rendered except in the following eases:—

(a) Where the advice tendered is based on the data already collected by the Commission or the Authority as part of its normal functions.

(b) Where the amount of recovery does not exceed Rs. 100/-provided that the work involved is not of a recurring nature.