(1) Notice of recall for service to officers on the Retired List may be given to such officers by signal, telegram or by letter. On receipt of such notice the officers shall forthwith report for duty at the place mentioned in the said notice.
(2)(a) Officers recalled for service receive pay and allowances as are applicable to commissioned officers of the Indian Navy. For the purpose of determining reckonable service for pay, the full pay commissioned service rendered shall be taken into account. Any ante-date allowed for purpose of pay during the previous spell of service shall be taken into account.
(b)Officers so recalled shall cease to draw their pension during service on such recall. If an officer has already commuted a pension of his pension, the commuted pension shall be deducted from the pay.
(c ) In the case of officers who had retired with a gratuity only and are recalled to service, a deduction on account of the except the pension equivalent of gratuity shall be made from their pay, except where the monthly equivalent of gratuity does not exceed Rs.120;in cases where the monthly pension equivalent of gratuity exceeds Rs.120, only the amount in excess of Rs.120 shall be recovered.
(3) Officers on recall to service shall be entitled to an outfit allowance proportionate to the number of completed years previously spent on the active list plus the amount, if any, which they refunded on release and the balance shall be admissible to them on completing a further period of service on the active list to make up seven years from the date of the grant of the last initial or renewal outfit allowance.
Illustrations:- An officer who has completed five year’s active before release subsequent to drawing initial or renewal allowance will on recall to service be given 5/7th of the renewal outfit grant and will be paid the balance of 2./7th on completing two years on the Active List.
For a further grant of renewal outfit allowance, the said period of seven years will reckon from the date of the second payment, that is to say, when the said balance becomes due.
(4) Refund of outfit allowance
(a) An officer who fails to serve i9n the Navy for the period of 2 years shall be required to refund 25 per cent of the outfit allowance for every period of six months by which his service falls short of two years.
(b)Officers will not be required to refund the outfit allowance in its entirely if their call up service is for a duration of less than six months and in such cases, the officers will be deemed to have put in more than six month’s service but less than a year, and the refund will be calculated accordingly.
© The refund may, however, be waived in whole or in part, at the discretion of the Chief of the Naval Staff if the failure to complete the said period of service for two years in due to health, or other special circumstances.
(5) (a) An officer on recall to service shall take seniority in his rank from the date of such recall and shall be placed junior to all regular officers holding similar rank on that date.
(b) The seniority of officers on the Retired List on inter so shall be decide on the basis of the date of promotion to the substantive ranks held by them.
(6) Officers on the Retired List on recall to service shall be eligible for acting promotions to higher ranks under the same rules as are applicable to regular officers of the Indian Navy.
(7) (a) The following types of leave shall be admissible to officers on the Retired List, namely:-
(1)On recall to active service-
(i)Casual leave)As admissible to the
(ii)annual leave)regular serving officers
(iii)furlough)of the Indian Navy under
(iv)Sick leave)the rules in force from time to time.
(2) On termination of active service-balance of any annual leave under subclause (1) admissible under the rules in force and applicable to them.
(b)Officers on the Retired List who at the time of recall to active service were employed in civil departments shall, during such service be granted leave in accordance with sub-clause (1) of clause (a). they shall, however, earn leave during naval service ion accordance with the leave rules applicable to them while serving in the civil departments before transfer to naval service provided they retain a lien in the respective civil departments. The amount of leave actually taken by such personnel while in naval service shall be deducted from their civil leave accounts. Any case of excess consumption of leave during naval service shall be condoned; and if the leave taken during such service is less than that earned during a comparable period of civil service, the difference shall be credited to their leave accounts in the civil departments.
(3) (a) An officer on the Retired List when called up for service and when discharged on termination thereof, shall be entitled to the same rate of traveling allowance as is admissible to regular officers under the Travel Regulations applicable to officers of the defence forces.
(b) During service on recall and also on being compelled to resign his commission on account of circumstances beyond his control, an officer shall be entitled to conveyance allowance as is admissible to regular officers.
© (i) On dismissal or removal from,© (i) On dismissal or removal from, vice or on being permitted to resign his commission to avoid dismissal from service, an officer may be allowed free conveyance on warrant for return to his permanent place of residence or to the place where he last held the civil post, at the discretion of the Chief of the Naval staff provided the Chief of the Naval Staff is satisfied that the officer is unable to pay for his own conveyance or of that of his family or both. The class of accommodation to be provided shall be such as the Chief of the Naval Staff may order in each case. The scale of baggage shall be restricted to that permitted as free allowance on railway travel. Free conveyance of servants shall not be admissible.
(iii) Notwithstanding anything contained in the foregoing regulations, during the period of operation of any proclamation of Emergency issued under clause
(1) of article 352 of the constitution, traveling allowance on permanent duty scale shall be granted for the officers himself when posted to a peace station, provided that the anticipated period of stay at that station exceeds three months, and on temporary duty scale with baggage upto 750 Kilograms in other cased.
Cash advance towards traveling allowance may, if required be traveling allowance may, if required be drawn from the nearest naval establishment.
(cc) When an officer, who is recalled for service from a civil post in which the possession of a private car was advantageous from the point of view of efficiency, and is appointed against a post in which the possession of a car is necessary from the point of view of efficiency, he may draw the cost of transportation of the car from the place of his civil appointment to the station to which he is posted on his recall:
provided that all other conditions laid down in rule 524 of the Travel Regulations are fulfilled.
1. If required to undergo medical examination before reporting for duty on recall to service traveling connection shall be admissible as indicated below:-
(i)On first class single-fare for journey performed by rail and road mileage at the rate laid down in rule 201 read with rule 202 of the travel Regulations applicable to officers of the defence services as is admissible for a first grade officer for journeys performed by road, from the ordinary place of residence to the place of medical examination and return.
Explanation:- if two station are not connected by rail and the pouplar means of public conveyance is an omnibus, mileage allowance admissible to an individual shall be at such be at such lower rates as may be fixed by the competent authority. If the distance involved exceeds to kilometers one bus fare or two bus fares for a return journey will be paid.
(ii)One first class single fare exclusive of the cost of meals for journey performed by steamer.
(iii) If the journey is performed by rail or streamer by any class lower than first class, one fare of the class in which the journey is actually performed shall be admissible.
(iv) If the journey by rail or steamer begins or ends at a place which is nearer to the place which is nearer to the place of medical test than to the ordinary place of residence shall be admissible only to or from such nearer place.
(v)Traveling allowance for any journey shall be admissible as for a journey performed by the cheapest practicable route irrespective of the particular mode in which the journey is performed.
(vi)If any part of the journey is performed on a warrant no further traveling allowance shall be admissible for that journey.
(vii)Daily allowance shall be admissible for halts at the rate applicable to first grade officers, for every 24 hours. For fractions of 24 hours, daily allowance shall be admissible as follows namely:- Upto 6 hours . . . . Nil Exceeding 6 hours but not . . . Half daily Exceeding 12 hours allowance Exceeding 12 hours . . . . Full daily Allowance The traveling concessions specified in item (i) to (vii) shall be admissible within Indian limits only.
(3) Officers recalled to service shall be required to subscribe compulsorily to the Defence Services Officers Provident Fund. The maximum rate of subscription shall be 6 per cent of the pay.
(4) Officers on the retired List, on recalls to service, shall be entitled to pension benefits in accordance with the orders issued in that behalf from time to time.
(5) Every officer on the Retired List shall report in writing to the Chief of the Naval Staff in January each year his present address and shall intimate any change of address whenever such change occurs. Before proceeding out of India (otherwise obtain the approval of the central Government through the Chief of the Naval Staff.
(6) An officer who fails to report for duty or service when so required, for which he is liable by virus of being on the Retired List, is liable to be proceed against under the Act for such failure.
(7) All other terms and conditions of service of officers on recall to service, where such terms and conditions are not at variance with the provisions of these regulations shall be the same as are applicable to serving regular officers of the Indian Navy.
Vide Amend No.40 SRO L.E dt 20 Feb 70.
CHAPTER XI RANK AND COMMAND Section Regulations I Officers in General . . . . . 205 – 212 II Flag Officers and Commodores . . . 213 – 224 III General Regulations . . . . . 225 – 244 IV Acting Rank . . . . . . 245 – 246 V Ship’s Company . . . . . . 247 – 249 VI Indian Navy, Army and Air Force . . 250 – 253 SECTION I – OFFICERS IN GENERAL