No sailor shall be prejudiced in his substantive rank by being discharged to another ship; should there be no equivalent rank open to him in the ship to which he may be sent as part complement, he will be borne as supernumerary provided that nothing in this Regulation shall effect the power to reduce in rank punishment, or to revert for proved unsuitability.
Regulation 257A Joining Time. (1) A sailor drafted from one ship or establishment to another necessitating change of station, provided he is not required to arrive by a particular date, shall be governed for the purpose of grant of joining time by the provisions contained in regulation 149 except sub-regulation (6) thereof.
(2) An extension of joining time beyond what is admissible under the scale authorized in sub-regulation (1) of regulation 149, may be sanctioned by the commodore, Naval Barracks, Bombay upto the maximum period of thirty days subject to the following conditions, namely:-
(i) When an individual has been unable top use the ordinary mode of traveling or, notwithstanding due diligence on his part, spent more time on the journey than is allowed by the rules; or
(ii) When such extension is considered necessary for public convenience, or for the saving of such public expenditure as is caused by unnecessary or purely formal transfer; or
(iii) When the rules have in any particular case operated harshly, as for example, when an individual has through no fault on his part missed a steamer or fallen sick on the journey; or
(iv) When an individual is transferred from naval to civil or foreign employ, or is retransferred there from to naval employ, he may be granted joining time under the rules of the borrowing civil department or Government. The naval rules on joining time shall not apply.
(3) Cases involving an extension of joining time beyond thirty days shall be referred to the Central Government for orders.