Para 3.3.8 — MSO

Payment of Leave Salary

3.3.8 The office in which the leave accounts of government servants are to be kept, the form in which they are to be maintained and the persons by whom the entries therein are to be attested are prescribed by Government. Before leave is sanctioned to a government servant, the authority sanctioning the leave should either consult the leave account and satisfy himself that the leave is admissible or obtain a certificate to that effect from the officers entrusted with the attestation of entries in the leave account. To ensure the correctness of entitlement to leave, leave accounts should be closed regularly. In certain cases (e.g. study leave under Central Civil Services (Leave) Rules, 1972), the rules prescribe that leave can be sanctioned only after obtaining a certificate of eligibility from the Accountant General (A&E)/Pay and Accounts officer.