Gauhati University Leave Rules, 1966
No: -- Dated: Jan, 01 1960
The Gauhati University Leave Rules, 1966
1. Short title, commencement and extent of application. - (1) These Rules shall be called the Gauhati University Leave Rules, 1966.
(2) They shall come into force from the first day of January, 1960 and shall except as may be specifically provided otherwise by the terms of employment in any particular case, apply to every whole time employee of the University existing on and appointed after that date ; provided that the University Research Scholars, employees of the University Press and Part-time employees shall be governed by special leave rules as provided hereafter.
2. Interpretation and definitions. - In these Rules unless there be anything repugnant in the context, words and expressions defined below shall have the meanings hereinafter explained :
(i) "Actual service" of an employee means the period which he spends on actual duty and also includes-
(a) the period covered by any casual leave but no other leave granted to him ;
(b) the University vacation ; and
(c) the University holidays except such holidays as may fall within such vacations or leave other than casual leave that may be granted to him.
(ii) "Competent authority" in relation to the grant of any leave to an employee under these Rules means the officer of authority authorised by these Rules to grant such leave to the employee.
(iii) "Heads of Administrative Departments" for the purpose of these Rules shall mean and include the Registrar, the treasurer, the Secretary of the University Classes, the Controller of Examinations, the Executive Engineer, the Librarian and the Principal, University Law College.
(iv) "Duty" means what an employee is bound or required to do by the terms of his appointment.
(v) "Employee" means and includes the vice-Chancellor and other officers of the University, all teachers of the University and any other persons employed by the University, whole-time or part-time.
(vi) "Senior grade employee" means a person holding a post the minimum of whose scale of pay is Rs. 1,000 or above.
(vii) "Permanent employee" for the purpose of the Rules means an employee appointed substantively on probation to a permanent post and an employee appointed for a term under provision of the Gauhati University Act, 1947 as amended.
(viii) "Part-time employee" shall mean a person appointed as such on fixed monthly pay or allowance.
(ix) "Employee in the vacation department" means an employee serving in a vacation department but does not include any office and laboratory staff, care-takers, darbans, day-chowkidars, night-watchmen, malis, sweepers and such other employee of department as may be specified in this behalf by the Vice-Chancellor.
(x) "Retirement" means termination of service of an employee or attaining the age of sixty years or on completing a term under provision of the Gauhati University Act,.
(xi) "Holiday" means-
(a) a Sunday, or
(b) a holiday prescribed and notified as such in relation to any office or department of the University or any College or other institution, or
(c) a day on which such office, department, college or institution is ordered by the Vice-Chancellor to be closed by a notice in writing.
(xii) "Leave" means the privilege allowed to an employee of being absent from duty.
(xiii) "Lien" means the title of an employee to hold substantively either immediately or on termination of a period or periods of absence, a permanent post under the University to which he has been appointed substantively.
(xiv) "Pay" means the basic pay in respect of a whole-time appointment, special pay, personal pay, house allowance and such other emoluments as may be specially classed as pay; but an allowance for holding part-time appointment under the University shall not be included in pay.
(xv) "Vacation department" means the teaching departments of the University, a constituent college or any other institution as is allowed by the University to have regular vacations during which employees serving that department are permitted at the discretion of the Vice-Chancellor to be absent from duty.