Rule 32 — RPR

32. Payment of Gratuity.– (1) Except as hereinafter provided, gratuity shall not be paid except on an authority received from the PAO to whom the sanction is communicated by the sanctioning authority.

(2) It shall be made in the same manner as provided in rules relating to Provident Funds. (3) Provisional gratuity sanctioned by a competent authority in respect of a retired Government servant shall be drawn separately for each gratuitant by the Head of the office in which he last served.

(4) The provisions of sub-rule (1) shall apply mutatis mutandis to the drawal and disbursement of provisional death-cum-retirement gratuity payable to family of a Government servant who died while in service.