Subject to the conditions laid down in rules 22 and 23, daily allowance may be drawn during a halt on tour on public business or on a holiday occurring during such tour.
Explanation.—(1) ‗ Day ‘ means a calendar day, beginning and ending at midnight. But an absence from Bombay which does not exceed 24 hours, though it may begin and end on different calendar dates, is reckoned as one day for the purpose of travelling allowance. For such an absence, a Minister is restricted to one day‘s daily allowance which may be exchanged for mileage allowance by road, railway or steamer. When a Minister leaves Bombay on one day and returns the next day and claims daily allowance for more than one day, the hours of departure from and of return to Bombay shall be given.
(2) A Minister who during the course of his tour on public business returns temporarily to Bombay on a Sunday or other holiday to attend to his private business is not entitled to draw daily allowance for the day or days spent at Bombay, as daily allowance is not admissible for any day, whether Sunday or other holiday, unless the Minister is actually, and not merely constructively on 19 such tour. Accordingly, in respect of a claim for daily allowance for a Sunday or other holiday falling during the course of such tour, the Minister shall certify on the travelling allowance bill that he was actually, and not merely constructively, on tour on public business on such a day.
(3) A Minister who leaves a place at which he has been halting on tour on public business, precisely at midnight, is entitled to draw daily allowance if otherwise admissible, in respect of the halt for the 24 hours, immediately preceding his departure.