(1) A member of the Board or its committee or a person associated with the Board under section 4(8) or a person co-opted as a member of a committee under section 9(2), other than a Government servant, shall be entitled to draw in respect of any journey performed by him for the purpose of attending a meeting of the Board or of a duly constituted committee thereof, or for the purpose of discharging any duty assigned to him by the Board or the committee concerned, travelling allowance and daily allowance at the highest rates admissible to Government servants of the first grade under the rules and orders made by the Central Government and for the time being in force:
Provided that, the payment of travelling allowance and daily allowance to the Members of the Parliament shall be regulated in accordance with the Salary, Allowances and Pension of Members of Parliament Act, 1954.
(2) In the case of any journey performed by an official of the Central or the State Government specially nominated by the Board to serve on any ad-hoc committee or any other committee or to attend to any other business of the Board, the travelling and daily allowances admissible to him shall be payable by the Board, at the rates admissible to him under the rules of the Government under which he is for the time being employed.
*Amended vide S.O.136 dated 31.12.2010 published in the Gazette of India, Part II – Section 3 – Sub-section (ii) dated 15.01.2011.
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(3) No travelling allowance or daily allowance, shall be allowed to a member of the Board or its committee or any other person associated by the Board or co-opted by its committee unless he certifies that he has not drawn any travelling or daily allowance from any other source in respect of the journey and halt for which the claim is made.
(4) Travelling allowance shall be payable from the usual place of residence of a member or the person entitled under these rules, to the place of the meeting or the place where he has gone to attend to any business of the Board or any of its committees and back to his place of residence:
Provided that, when the journey commences from or the return journey terminates at any place other than his usual place of residence, the travelling allowance shall be limited to the amount that would have been payable had the journey commenced from or terminated at the usual place of residence; or to the amount payable in respect of the actual journey undertaken whichever is less:
Provided further that, in special circumstances and with previous approval of the Central Government, the Chairman may grant travelling allowance from places other than the usual place of residence of a member.
(5) The Chairman shall be the controlling officer for the purpose of travelling and daily allowance of the members of the Board or of any committee or the persons associated with the Board or co-opted as member of any committee.