(1) The amount of gratuity that may be granted is determined by the length of service as set forth in rule 4. Fractions of a half year are not taken into account in the calculation of any gratuity admissible to an employee.
(2) Any gratuity fixed in rupee shall be calculated to the nearest rupee.
(3) An employee who is selected for discharge owing to the abolition of the post is entitled to gratuity under rule 4, if he does not accept any other post in the Board. If he accepts another appointment, even on a lower pay, his previous service will count for gratuity.
9. Periods of suspension - (1) Time passed under suspension pending enquiry into the conduct counts if suspension is immediately followed by reinstatement but time passed under suspension adjusted as a specific penalty does not count. An employee shall not be penalised, if he is exonerated after a period of suspension,
(2) If the employee under suspension is reinstated but has not been allowed to draw any part of allowances admissible under suspension, the period of such suspension, shall not count for purpose of qualifying service without the specific orders from the authority, who reinstates the employee which shall clarify this issue immediately after the reinstatement.
10. Removal and dismissals.__ (1) An employee who is dismissed, removed or compulsorily retired but is reinstated on appeal or revision is entitled to the benefit of his past service for the purpose of gratuity.
(2) The period of break in service between the date of dismissal, removal or compulsory retirement as the case may be, and the date of reinstatement and the period of suspension, if any, shall not count unless regularised as duty or leave by a specific order of the authority which passed the orders of reinstatement.
11. Interruptions - An interruption in the service of an employee entails forfeiture of his past service save in the following cases -
(1) Authorised leave of absence.
(2) Unauthorised absence in continuation of authorised leave of absence so long as the post of the absentee is not substantively filled. If his post is substantively filled, the past service is forfeited.
(3) Suspension where it is immediately followed by reinstatement whether to the same or a different post or where the employee dies or is permitted to retire or is retired while under suspension.
(4) Abolition of post or loss of appointment owing to reduction of establishment.
12. Retrospective commutation of absence - The authority who sanctions the gratuity may commute retrospectively periods of absence without leave into extraordinary leave with or without leave salary.