Section 20: Circumstances in which joining time can be extended by a competent authority

Within the prescribed maximum of thirty days, a competent authority may, on such conditions as it thinks fit, grant to a | Trust servant a longer period of joining time than admissible under the regulations in the following circumstances:- | () when the Trust servant has been unable to use the ordinary mode of travelling or, notwithstanding due diligerice em his part, has spent more time on the journey | than is allowed by the regilations; or '

(b) when such extension is considered necessary for the saving of such expenditure as is caused by unnecessary or purely formal transfer; or {c) when the regulations have in-any particular case operated harshly, as for example when a Trust servant hes, though no fault on his part. missed a steamer or has fallen sick while on the journey.