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THE GOVERNMENT SALARIES, ALLOWANCES AND PRIVILEGES ORDER., 1975

Short title and commencement.- (1) This Order may  be  called the Governors Salary, Allowance and Privileges Order, 1975.

(2) It shall come into force at once.  Introduction .-  In this Order, unless there is anything loathsome  in the subject or context,

(a) “Acting Governor” means a persons appointees by the President to  act as Governor when the Governor is absent from Pakistan  or is  unable  to  perform the functions of his office  due  to  any cause;

(b) “Family” means the Governor’s wife and such of his  children, step-children, parents, brothers and sisters as ordinarily reside with and are wholly dependent upon him;

(c)“Furnishings”  means  pictures,  paintings,  curios,  linen, brass-ware,  cutlery, crockery, kitchen equipment, radio,  radio-gram, lamps, public address system, projects, television sets  of all kinds, acoustical equipment and slimier other articles;

(d)“Furniture” includes carpets, sofa sets,  curtain  curtains, refrigerators,  air conditioners,  washing  machines and  similar other articles;

(e) “Maintenance of things :,-(i) in relation to official residence, includes  the  maintenance and  replenishing of furniture and furnishings, payment of  local rates and taxes, maintenance of roads and electric, water gas and sanitary fixtures  and  installations,  and  the  provision   of electricity, gas and water; and (ii) in relation to official cars and aircraft, includes the  pay and allowances of chauffeurs, pilots and other government establishment  and the provision of oil and petrol department ;

(f) “official cars”, “railway saloons” and “aircraft” means  such cars,  railway saloons and aircraft, if any, as are from time  to time provided for use by the Governor;

(g) “Official residence” means the house specified in the  First Schedule and such other premises in the Province as the  Governor may  use  as  his  official residence,  and  includes  the  staff quarters and other buildings apartment thereto and the  gardens thereof;

(h)“ Starting  Year” means a year stating on the first day of July  and ending on the  dated 31 June next following; and (i) other  words  and expressions used in  this  Order  and  not clear   shall  have  the  meanings  assigned  to  them  in   the Constitution of the Pakistan .

3. Annual Salary.- The annual salary to be paid to each Governor shall be seventy-two thousand rupees.
4. Equipment allowance.- (1) The Governor may, on his assumption of office as auch, draw two thousand and five hundred rupees as allowance for equipping himself; Provided  that,  during the ten years immediately  preceding  the assumption  of  that office, had not drawn an allowance  for  the same  purpose  upon  election or appointment  to  the  office  of Chairman, Speaker Minister, Governor, Chief Minister, Minister of State or Provincial Minister or a diplomatic office. The  provisions of clause (1) shall not apply to  an  acting Governor.

5.Allowance  on  taking up and laying  down  the  office.-  The Governor shall be entitled to traveling allowances to the extent mentioned              below  for  the journey from  his  ordinary  place  of residence to the official residence on taking up office and  from the  official  residence  to  his  ordinery  place  of  residence on laying down office:-

(a) tThe original  traveling expenses for the beneficiaries  and his family;

(b) The  cost  of transporting personal  servants  not  exceeding three, by the lowest class of accommodation; and

(c) The cost of transporting household effects, not exceeding one hundred  and twenty maunds, by goods train or steamer  excluding aircraft, and his personal car, if any.

(2) No  claim  shall rest for any travel  or  transportation  not performed  within  six months of the date of assuming  or  laying down  office, as the case may be.

 (3)The  provisions of clause (1) shall not apply  to  an  acting Governor,  but  there  shall be paid to  an  acting  Governor  an allowance  equal  to his actual expenses  on  journey  undertaken within  Pakistan,  with  his family, if  any,  and  his  family’s effects,  in connection with the taking up and relinquishment  of his duties as acting Governor.

6. Privilege in case of journeys from one Province to another.- A Governor shall,  when  traveling on  official  duty  from  one Province  to another, be entitled to take with him wife,  or  one other member of his family, at Government expense.

7.Official  residence, railway saloons, aircraft  and  official cars.-  (1)  Throughout his term of office, a Governor  shall  be entitled,  without  payment of rent or hire, to the  use  of  his official  residence,  and of the railway  saloons,  aircraft  and official  cars,  and no charge shall fall on  him  personally  in respect of the maintenance thereof:

Provided  that the Governor shall not, except when proceeding  on or  returning  from leave, be entitled to the use of  the  railway saloons, aircraft or official cars during any period for which he is on leave. (2)  The provisions of clause (1) shall also apply to the  family of a Governor.

8.Sumptuous allowance and other allowances.- There shall be paid in each year to a Governor-

(a)  an  allowance  for  expenses  connected  with  the  purposes specified  in  the  Second Schedule  not  exceeding  the  maximum amounts  specified in that Schedule:

Provided  that  the Governor may, without exceeding  the  maximum specified in column 7 of the said Second Schedule, re appropriate, whenever  necessary,  form any sub-head in that Schedule  to  any other sub-head therein, except to or from the sub-heads  relating to sumptuous allowance;

(b) The allowance for expenses attach the betterment  and retain  of the official residence and the maintenance of  the furniture  and  furnishing  thereof, not  exceeding  the  maximum amount, specified in the Third Schedule: Provided  that  the Governor may, without exceeding  the  maximum specified  in  column  9 of the  third  Schedule,  re appropriate, whenever  necessary,  from any sub-head in that Schedule  to  any other sub-head therein.

9.Payment  on  account of deferred  pay,  etc.,  of  officers.- Nothing  in this Order shall apply to any payment on  account  of the  deferred pay, leave, salaries, allowances, cost of  passages or increments due to any officer provision for whose pay is made in  the Second Schedule, and the amount of such payment shall  be in addition to the maximum amounts specified in that scheduled