Rule 312 — GFR

Rule 312 (1) Financial arrangements between Central Government and Local Bodies. Unless any one of the following arrangements is authorized by specific orders of Government, a local body will be required to pay, in advance, the estimated amount of charges to be incurred or cost of services to be rendered, by Government on account of the fund: -

(i) payments made by Government are debited to the balances of the deposits of the local fund with government; or

(ii) payments are made as advances from public funds in the first instance pending recovery from the local funds.

Rule 312 (2) Notwithstanding the provision contained in Rule 312 (1) in case of emergency such as epidemics pre- payment will not be insisted upon from local bodies for supply of medicines from Medical Stores Depots of the Ministry of Health.