CHAPTER 5 :CONTROLLING OFFICERS
CHAPTER V
CONTROLLING OFFICERS
113. The Government shall declare what authority shall be the controlling officer, for Travelling Allowance purposes, of each officer or grade of officers. It may, if it thinks fit, declare that any particular officer shall be his controlling officer.
114. Except where expressly permitted by a competent authority a controlling officer may not delegate to a subordinate his duty of countersignature.
115. Except as provided in Rule 113 no bill for Travelling Allowance, other than Permanent Travelling Allowance shall be paid unless it is signed or countersigned by the controlling officer concerned.
116. It is the duty of a controlling officer, before signing or countersigning a Travelling Allowance bill—
(a) to scrutinise the necessity, frequency and duration of journeys and halts for which Travelling Allowance is claimed, and to disallow the whole or any part of the Travelling Allowance claimed for any journey or halts, if he considers that a journey was unnecessary or unduly protracted or that a halt was of excessive duration;(b) to scrutinise carefully the distances entered in Travelling Allowance bills;(c) to satisfy himself that mileage allowance for journeys by railway or steamer, excluding additional fare or fares allowed for incidental expenses, has been claimed at the rate applicable to the class of accommodation actually used and that where the actual cost of transporting servants, personal effects, etc., is claimed under these rules the scale on which such servants, effects, etc., were transported was reasonable; and to disallow any claim which, in his opinion, does not fulfil that condition;(d) to check any tendency to abuse the option of exchanging daily allowance for mileage allowance;(e) to observe any subsidiary rules or orders which a competent authority may make for his guidance; and(f) to satisfy himself before permitting a claim under Rule 23 that the officer actually bought a through ticket at the rate claimed and that it was not possible for him to get a through ticket at a cheaper rate by paying only for the appropriate class of accommodation over that portion of the journey where accommodation of that class was available.