CHAPTER VI – COMBINATION OF APPOINTMENTS

53.(a) A competent authority may appoint an officer to hold substantively or to officiate in two or more independent posts at one time.

(b) The competent authority who appoints an officer to hold or to officiate in a second post in addition to his own, will declare whether he officiates in or holds full charge of the additional post or is appointed merely to discharge the current duties. It should also specify in each case the amount of special allowance, if any, to be granted, the amount being subject to the following limits :-

(1) If an officer is appointed to officiate in a second post and to hold in addition full charge of his own post, he may be allowed to draw the highest pay to which he would be entitled if his appointment to one of the posts stood alone **and in addition special allowance which should not exceed 4 per cent of the minimum of the scale of pay of other post with effect from the 1st day of February, 2011 or the date of change over to the revised scale ordered in G.O.(P) No.85/2011/Fin. dated the 26th February, 2011, which ever is later.The highest pay referred to above may be specifically reduced by the competent authority at its discretion.

If compensatory allowance is attached to one of the posts, he may be permitted to draw it in full and if compensatory allowances are attached to more than one of the posts, the allowance which may be granted to him should not exceed the larger allowance.

(2) If the officer is appointed to hold full charge of one or more posts in addition to his own, the special allowance which may be granted to him in respect of each additional post should not exceed 4 per cent of the minimum of the scale of that post with effect from the 1st day of February, 2011 or the date of change over to the revised scale ordered in G.O.(P). No.85/2011/Fin. dated the 26th February, 2011, which ever is later.