(1) Subject to any conditions, which Government may by general or special order impose, a Presiding Officer may exchange his daily allowance for mileage allowance on 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, than subject to the provisions 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 kilometres ;
(b) unless such journey by road be 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.
(5) Two or more Presiding Officers travelling on tour on public business in the same conveyance may not all draw mileage for journeys, but only that Presiding Officer who either owns the conveyance or has borrowed or hired it may draw mileage and daily allowance, subject to the above condition, while the rest may draw travelling allowance admissible to them.
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(6) Voucher shall be attached to every travelling allowance bill presented for payment. If vouchers cannot be obtained, the Presiding Officer shall certify that to 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.