(1) When the employee under suspension is reinstated, the competent authority may grant to him the following pay and allowances, –
(a) If the employee is exonerated or not awarded any of the penalties mentioned in regulation (e) to (h) of Regulation 27 the full pay and allowances which he would have been entitled to if he had not been suspended less the subsistence allowance already paid to him; and
(b) If otherwise such proportion of pay and allowances as the competent authority may specify.
(2) In a case falling under clause (a) the period of absence from duty shall be treated as the period spent on duty. In a case falling under clause (b) the period of absence from duty shall not be treated as a period spent on duty unless the competent authority so directs.