CHAPTER - III

Travelling and other allowances payable to members of the Authority or a Committee.

10.   Travelling and daily allowance payable to members of the Authority and Committees.
  (1) Members of the Authority, other than the officials of the Central or State Government shall be entitled to payment of travelling and daily allowances for journeys undertaken by them for attending any meeting of the Authority or of any Committee at the rates admissible to Government Servant of the first grade under the rules made by the Central Government, and for the time being in force:

Provided that such members will be entitled to appropriate hotel accommodation in which case, the rate of daily allowance will be restricted as provided for in the rules made by the Central Government and for the time being in force:

Provided further that the Members of Parliament elected to the Authority under section 4(3)(c) of the Act shall, for such journeys, be entitled to the payment of traveling and daily allowances at the rates as admissible to the Members Of Parliament under the relevant rules of the Parliament, and for the time being in force.

  (2) In the case of any journey performed by an official of the Central or State Government for attending any meeting of a Committee or for any other business of the Authority or a Committee, the travelling and daily allowances admissible to him shall be payable by the Authority at the rates admissible to him under the rules of the Government under which he is for the time being employed:

Provided that such officials will be entitled to appropriate hotel accommodation in which case the rate of daily allowance will be restricted as provided for in the relevant rules of the Government under which he is for the time being employed.

  (3) No traveling allowance or daily allowance shall be allowed to a member of the Authority or of any Committee unless he certifies that he has not drawn any traveling or daily allowance from any other source in respect of the journey or halt, as the case may be, for which the claim is made.
  (4) Traveling allowance should be payable from the usual place of residence of a member of the Authority or a Committee to the place of the meeting or the place where he has gone to attend to any business of the Authority or a Committee and back to his place of residence:

Provided that when the journey commences from or the return journey terminates at any other place, the traveling allowance shall be limited to the amount that would have been payable had the journey commenced from or terminated at the usual place of residence or to the amount payable in respect of the actual journey undertaken, whichever is less:

Provided further that in special circumstances, and with the previous approval of the Central Government, the Chairman may grant traveling allowance from places other than the usual place of residence of a member.

11. Conveyance allowance.  
  (1) No conveyance allowance for attending any meeting of the Authority or a Committee or to any other business of the Authority or a Committee shall be paid to the members of the Authority or a Committee who draw travelling allowance or daily allowance.
  (2) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-­regulation (1), a member of the Authority or a Committee who is resident at a place where the meeting of the Authority or a Committee is held or where any other business of the Authority or a Committee is transacted may be paid the actual expenditure incurred on conveyance by him subject to a maximum of rupees five hundred per day.
       

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