The Chairperson of the Council may invite any person or persons to attend any meeting of the Council but such persons shall have no right to vote.
The Central Wakf Council Rules, 1998
11. Travelling and daily allowances-(1) Every member, not being an officer of the Government, performing journeys to attend meeting of the Council or in connection 4 with any work relating to the Council shall be entitled to travel, at his discretion, by air or by rail in first class or in second class AC coach wherever available.
(2) Every such member shall be entitled to the following travelling and daily allowances, namely:- Travelling Allowance:
(a) By Air
(i) One standard air fare;
(ii) Incidental expenses subject to a maximum of rupees fifty.
(b) By Rail
(i) First Class/II A.C. Coach rail fare, as the case may be;
(ii) Incidental expenses subject to a maximum of rupees fifty.
Note:- In case of air journeys involving overnight halt(either due to nonavailability of connective service or due to the cancellation of connective service) at intermediary stations, for which the Airlines does not provide, at its expense, any facility for boarding or lodging to the touring member, he shall be entitled in respect of such overnight halt, one-half of the daily allowance admissible to him in addition to the incidental expenses.
(II) While performing journeys by air, he shall purchase return ticket, wherever it is available, when it is expected that the return journey can be performed before the expiry of the period for which the return ticket is available.
(III) In respect of journeys by road from residence to the air booking office or railway station and from these points to the place where a meeting of the Council is being held, he shall also be entitled to a road mileage at rupees eight per kilometre.
Daily Allowance:
(a) For each day of the meeting, he shall be entitled to a daily allowance of rupees five hundred per day.
(b) In addition to the daily allowance for the days of the meeting, he shall be entitled to full day allowance for the day preceding and the day following the day of the meeting if----
(i) he arrives in the forenoon of the day immediately preceding the day of the meeting or on an earlier day;
(ii) he departs in the afternoon of the day following the day of the meeting or on a later day;
Provided that he shall be entitled to only one-half of the daily allowance for the day preceding the day of the meeting and the day following the day of the meeting if--
(i) he arrives in the afternoon of the day preceding the day of the meeting;
or
(ii) he departs in the forenoon of the day following the day of the meeting.
(3) When a person attends any meeting of the Council or its Committee as an invitee, he may be paid travelling allowance and daily allowance at the rates admissible to a member of the Council.
(4) A claim of the member travelling by his own transport shall be restricted to rail fare by II class AC coach by the shortest route.
(5) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-rules (1), (2) and (3), if a member of the Council, is a Member of Parliament, or a State Legislature, he shall not be entitled to any remuneration other than the allowances, defined in clause (a) of Section 2 of the Parliament (Prevention of Disqualification) Act, 1959 (10 of 1959), or as the case may be, other than the allowances, if any, which a member of the Legislature of the State may, under any law for the time being in force in the State relating to the prevention of disqualification for Membership of the State Legislature, receive without incurring such disqualification.
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