(1) Subject to any conditions, which Government may be general or special order impose, a leader of the Opposition may exchange his daily allowance for mileage allowance or any day on which he travels by railway or steamer or both more than 32 kilometers by road; provided that, if a continuous journey extends over more than one day, the exchange shall be made for all such days and not for a part only of them.
(2) Where a journey by road is combined with a journey by railway or steamer under sub-rule (1) of this rule, then subject to the provision of this rule—
(a) mileage allowance may be drawn on account of such journey by road, but such mileage allowance shall be limited to the amount of daily allowance unless the road journey exceeds 32 kilometers;
(b) unless such journey by road by a journey to or from Bombay or temporary residence at a place of halt, mileage allowance shall, subject to the provisions of this rule, be calculated on the distance actually travelled.
(3) No mileage allowance for a journey to and from a railway station or steamer port shall be admissible in addition to mileage for the journey by rail or by steamer, unless the sum of all the road journey performed in connection with the journey by rail or steamer during the same calendar day exceeds 8 kilometers.
(4) Short journey within a radius of 8 kilometers from Bombay may not be added to other journeys when calculating the distance travelled by road or the amount of mileage allowance for the road journeys.
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(5) Two or more Leaders of the Opposition travelling on tour on public business in the same conveyance may not all draw mileage for journeys, but only that Leader of the Opposition who either owns the conveyance or has borrowed or hired it may draw mileage and daily allowance, subject to the above conditions, while the rest may draw travelling allowance admissible to them.
(6) Vouchers shall be attached to every travelling allowance bill presented for payment. If Vouchers cannot be obtained, the Leader of the Opposition shall certify that to the best of his knowledge, the claim is correct. But when the whole conveyance is hired, a voucher shall ordinarily be required.
(7) The nature of the conveyance used shall be certified on the travelling allowance bill presented for payment.