(a) (i) A temporary Government servant in Superior Service / Last Grade Service is entitled to half-pay leave at the rate of twenty days for each completed year of service].
G.O.Ms.No. 24, Fin. (FR-I), Dt. 16-01-1971
G.O.Ms.No. 32, Fin., Dt. 22-01-1972 and
G.O.Ms.No. 63, Fin., Dt. 03-03-1980
He may avail this leave only on medical certificate and after two years of service / one year of service. He may commute half the amount of half-pay leave due on medical certificate. When commuted leave is granted twice the amount of such leave shall be debited against the half-pay leave due. The total duration of earned leave and commuted leave taken in conjunction shall not exceed 180 days (limit is removed vide GO.Ms.No:384, Dt: 05-11-1977 ).
provided that no commuted leave may be granted under this rule unless the authority competent to sanction leave has reason to believe that the Government servant will not return to duty on its expiry.
[ Note: When commuted leave is granted and when he intends to retire or resign subsequently the commuted leave should be converted to half-pay leave and the difference between the leave salary in respect of commuted leave and half-pay leave should be recovered from him. An undertaking should, therefore, be taken from the Government servant whenever commuted leave is sanctioned to him. In all cases of resignation and voluntary retirement refund of excess leave-salary should be enforced while the cases where retirement is compulsorily thrust upon him by reasons of ill-health incapacitating him for further service no refund should be enforced).
[G.O.Ms.No. 143, Fin., Dt. 01-06-1968] (Amendments may be required on par with the Rules 18-B and 18-C)
(ii) In the case of Non-Permanent Government servants, the duration of Extraordinary Leave on any one occasion shall not exceed the following limits:
(a) three months;
(b) six months, in cases where the Government servant has completed three years continuous service on the date of expiry of leave of the kind due and admissible under the rules (including three months extraordinary leave) under (a) and above and his request for such leave is supported by a Medical Certificate, as required under the rules;
(c) eighteen months where the officer is undergoing treatment for;
(i) pulmonary tuberculosis (or pleurisy of tubercular origin), in a recognised Sanatorium; or (ii) tuberculosis of any other part of the body by a qualified tuberculosis specialist or a Civil Surgeon; or (iii) leprosy in a recognised leprosy institution or by Civil Surgeon or a Specialist in Leprosy in Leprosy recognised as such by the State Administrative Medical Officer concerned.
Note(1): The concession of extraordinary leave up to eighteen months will also be admissible to a Government servant suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis or pleurisy of tubercular origin who receives treatment at his residence under Tuberculosis Specialist recognised as such by the State Administrative Medical Officer concerned and produces a certificate signed by that specialist to the effect that he is under his treatment and that he has reasonable chances of recovery on the expiry of the leave recommended.
Note (2): The concession of extraordinary leave up to eighteen months under this sub-rule will be admissible only to those Government servants who have been in continuous Government service for a period exceeding one year.
Note (3): Government employees belonging to Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes may be granted extraordinary leave by the Heads of Departments only once in relaxation of the above limits to join Pre-Examination Training courses at the centres notified by the Government of India or by the State Government from time to time.
(d) twelve months where the Government servant is undergoing treatment for Cancer, or for mental illness in an institution recognised for the treatment of such disease or by a civil surgeon or a specialist in such disease;
(e) twenty-four months where the leave is required for the purpose of prosecuting studies certified to be in the public interest: (Execution of bond is necessary as per GO.MS.No:183, Dt:21-07-1978 )
Provided that the Government servant has completed three years continuous service on the date of expiry of leave of the kind and due and admissible under the rules (including three months extraordinary leave under item (a) above).
Note: This concession will be admissible only to those Government servants who have been in continuous Government service for a period exceeding one year.
(b) Unless the Government in view of the exceptional circumstances of the case otherwise determines, no Government servant, who is not a permanent employee, shall be granted extraordinary leave in excess of the limits prescribed in sub-rule (a) of Rule 23.
[(c) The authority empowered to grant leave may retrospectively commute the periods of absence without leave into extraordinary leave]. ( G.O.Ms.No:532, Fin. (FR-I), Dt.01-12-1972 )