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THE CENTRAL ADMINISTRATIVE TRIBUNAL
(SALARIES & ALLOWANCES & CONDITIONS
OF SERVICE OF CHAIRMAN, VICE-CHAIRMEN
& MEMBERS) RULES, 1985

1. GSR
644(E), dated the 10th August, 1985 - In exercise of the powers conferred by clause (c) of sub-section 35 of the
Administrative Tribunals Act, 1985 (13 of 1985), the Central Government
hereby makes the following rules, namely:-
1.
Short
title and commencement – (1)
These rules may be called the Central Administrative Tribunal
(Salaries and Allowances and Conditions of Service of Chairman, Vice-Chairmen
and Members) Rules, 1985.
(2)
they
shall come into force on the date of their publication in the official
Gazette.
2.
Definitions – In these
rules, unless the context otherwise requires –
(a) “Act”
means the Administrative Tribunal Act, 1985 (13 of 1985);
(b) “Tribunal” means the Central Administrative
Tribunal.
3.
Pay - The
Chairman shall be entitled to a pay of rupees thirty thousand per
mensem; a Vice-Chairman shall be
entitled to a pay of rupees twenty six thousand per mensem and a Member shall
be entitled to a pay in the scale of Rs.22,400-600-26000/- per mensem
Provided
that in the case of appointment as a Chairman, Vice-Chairman or a Member of a
person who has retired as a Judge of High Court or who has retired from
service under the Central Government or a State Government and who is in
receipt of or has received or has become entitled to receive any retirement
benefits by way of pension or gratuity employer’s contribution to the
Contributory Provident Fund or other forms of retirement benefits, the pay
shall be reduced by the gross amount of pension or pension equivalent to
service gratuity or employer’s contribution to Contributory Provident Fund or
any other form of retirement benefits, if any, but excluding pension
equivalent to retirement gratuity, drawn or to be drawn by him.
4.
& Dearness Allowance - The Chairman, Vice-Chairman and a Member shall be entitled
to dearness allowance appropriate to their pay at the rates admissible to
Group `A’ officers of the Central Government drawing a pay in the scale of
Rs.22,400-600-26,000/- or above.
4A. + City Compensatory Allowance - The Chairman, a Vice-Chairman and a
Member shall be entitled to City Compensatory Allowance appropriate to their
pay at the rates drawing a pay admissible to Group `A’ officers of the
Central Government in the scale of Rs.22,400-600-26000/- or above.
The Chairman, a Vice-Chairman and a Member shall be entitled to City
Compensatory Allowance appropriate to their pay at the rates drawing a pay
admissible to Group `A’ officers of the Central Government in the scale of
Rs.22,400-600-26000/- or above.
5. Retirement
from parent service on appointment as Member (1) : The Chairman, a Vice-Chairman or a Member who on the date
of his appointment to the Tribunal, was in service under the Central
Government or a State Government, shall seek retirement from such service
before his appointment to the Tribunal and in the case of a sitting Judge of
a High Court who is appointed as Chairman, Vice-Chairman, his service in the
Tribunal shall be treated as Actual service within the meaning of para 11(b)
(i) of Part `D’ of the second Schedule to the Constitution.
(2) On
such retirement as is provided for in sub-rule(1), the Chairman,
Vice-Chairman and Member :
(i)
shall be entitled to receive pension and gratuity in
accordance with the retirement rules applicable to him;
(ii)
Shall not be allowed to carry forward his earned leave but
shall be entitled to receive cash equivalent to leave salary, if any, in
accordance with the rules applicable to him prior to his retirement.
6. Leave – (1) A person, on appointment in the Tribunal as a Chairman,
Vice-Chairman or a Member shall be entitled to leave as follows :
(i)
earned leave at the rate of fifteen days for every
completed
calendar year
of service.
(ii)
Half pay leave on medical certificate or on private affairs at
the rate of twenty days in respect of each completed year of service and the
leave salary for half pay leave shall be equivalent to half of the leave
salary admissible during the earned leave;
(iii)
leave on half pay
can be commuted to full pay leave at the discretion of the Member,
provided it is taken on Medical grounds and is supported by a medical
certificate from the competent medical authority.
(iv)
extra ordinary leave without pay and allowances upto a
maximum period of 180 days in one term of office.
(2)
If the Chairman, a Vice-Chairman or a Member is unable to
enjoy full vacation on account of his occupation with the Tribunal, he shall
be entitled to add the unenjoyed period of vacation to the leave account.
Explanation - For the purpose of this sub-rule
“vacation” means vacation of 30 days in each calendar year observed by the
Tribunal.
(3)
% On the expiry of the term of his office in the Tribunal,
the Chairman, the Vice-Chairman or a Member shall be entitled to receive cash
equivalent of leave salary in respect of the earned leave standing to his
credit subject, to the conditions that the maximum of leave encashed under
this sub-rule or sub-rule(2) of rule 5 or at the time of retirement from
previous service, as the case may be, or taken together shall not in any case
exceed 300 days:
Provided that in respect of
the Chairman, Vice-Chairman and the Members holding office on the date of
commencement of the Central Administrative Tribunal (Salaries and Allowances
and Conditions of Service of Chairman, Vice-Chairman and Members) Amendment
Rule, 1992, this sub-rule shall be applied as it stood before such
commencement.
(4) The Chairman, the Vice-Chairman or
other Members shall be entitled to receive the dearness allowance as
admissible on the leave salary under sub-rule(2) at the rates in force on the date of
the relinquishment of the office
in the Tribunal;
- Leave
sanctioning authority - The
Chairman shall be the authority competent to sanctioning leave to the
Vice-Chairman and to a Member and the President shall be the authority
competent to sanction leave to the Chairman.
- Pension
– (1) Every person appointed
to the Tribunal as the Chairman, a Vice-Chairman or a Member shall be
entitled to pension provided that no such pension shall be payable.
(i)
if he has put in less than two years of service; or
(ii)
if he has been removed from an office in the Tribunal under
sub-section(2) of section 9 of the Act.
(2)
Pension under sub-rule (1) shall be calculated at the rate
of rupees four thousand seven hundred and sixteen per annum for each
completed year of service:
Provided that the aggregate amount of pension
payable under this rule together with amount of any pension including
commuted portion of pension if any drawn or entitled to be drawn while
holding office in the Tribunal shall not exceed the maximum amount of pension
prescribed for a Judge of the High Court.
- Provident Fund – The Chairman, a Vice-Chairman or
a Member shall be entitled to subscribe to the General Provident Fund at
his option and in case of his so opting shall be governed by the
provisions of the Central Provident Fund (Central Services) Rules:
Provided that if the Chairman, a Vice-Chairman or
a Member was Judge of a High Court or was a Member of an All India Service immediately before his
joining the Tribunal, he shall be governed by the rules which were applicable
to him immediately before joining the Tribunal.
10. Travelling Allowance
- The Chairman, a
Vice-Chairman or other Member while on tour as on transfer (including the
journey undertaken to join the Tribunal or on the expiry of his term with the
Tribunal to proceed to his home town) shall be entitled to the traveling
allowances, daily allowance, transportation of personal effects and other
similar matters at the same scales and the same rates as are prescribed in
the High Court Judges (Travelling Allowances) Rules, 1956.
11. Leave
Travel Concession - the
Chairman, a Vice-Chairman and a Member shall be entitled to the leave travel
concession at the same rates, and at the same scales and on the same
conditions as are admissible to Group `A’ officer of the Central Government
drawing a pay in the scale of Rs.22,400-600-26,000/- or above.
12. Accommodation
– (1) Every person appointed to
the Tribunal as a Chairman, a Vice-Chairman or a Member shall be entitled to
the use of an official residence from the general pool accommodation of the
type admissible to an officer of the rank of a Secretary to the Government of
India stationed at Delhi on the payment of the licence fee at the rates
prescribed by the Central Government from time to time.
(2) When
a Chairman, a Vice-Chairman or a Member is not provided with or does not
avail himself of the general pool accommodation referred to in sub-rule(1) he
may be paid every month an allowance of an amount equal to thirty percent of
his pay.
(3) Where
the Chairman, a Vice-Chairman or a Member occupies an official residence
beyond the permissible period he shall be liable to pay additional licence
fee or penal rent, as the case may be, and liable to eviction in accordance
with the rules applicable to Secretary to the Government of India belonging
to the Indian Administrative Service.
13. Facility
of conveyance – The Chairman, Vice-Chairman and a Member shall be entitled to
the facility of staff car for journeys for official and private purposes in
accordance with the Staff Car Rules of the Government of India.
14. Facilities
for Medical Treatment - The
Chairman, Vice-Chairman or other Member shall be entitled to medical
treatment and hospital facilities as provided in the Contributory Health
Service Scheme Rules, 1954 and in places where the Central Health Services
Scheme is not in operation, the Chairman, Vice-Chairman and Members shall be
entitled to the facilities as provided in the Central Services Medical
Attendance Rules.
15. Conditions
of service of sitting Judges of the High Court appointed as Chairman or
Vice-Chairman - Notwithstanding
anything contained in these rules, where a sitting judge of a High Court is
appointed as the Chairman or a Vice-Chairman of the Tribunal the service
conditions as contained in the High Court Judges (Conditions of Service) Act,
1954 and the rules made thereunder shall apply to him.
15A.
Notwithstanding anything contained in rule 4 to 15 of the
said rules, the conditions of service and other perquisites available to the
Chairman and Vice-Chairman of the Central Administrative Tribunal shall be
the same as admissible to a serving Judge of a High Court as contained in the
High Court Judges (Conditions of
Service) Act, 1954 and High Court Judges (Travelling Allowances) Rules, 1956.
16. Residuary
provision – The conditions of service of the Chairman, Vice-Chairman or other
Member for which no express provision is available in these rules shall be
determined by the rules and orders for the time being applicable to a
Secretary to the Government of India belonging to the Indian Administrative
Service.
17. Powers to relax rules – The Central
Government shall have power to relax the provisions of any of these rules in
respect of any class or categories of persons.
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