The authority which orders the transfer of a Government servant as a penalty from a higher to a lower grade or post may allow him to draw any pay, not exceeding the maximum of the lower grade or post, which it may think proper :
Provided that the pay allowed to be drawn by a Government servant under this rule shall not exceed the pay, which he would have drawn by the operation of Rule 22 read with clause (b) or clause (c), as the case may be, of Rule 26.