(1) An employee shall so manage his private affairs as to avoid habitual indebtedness or insolvency. An employee against whom any legal proceeding is instituted for the recovery of any debt due from him or for adjudging him as an insolvent, shall forthwith report the full facts of the legal proceedings to the competent authority.
(2) An employee who is in debt shall furnish to the competent authority a signed statement of his position half-yearly on the 30th June and 31st December and shall indicate in the statement the steps he is taking to rectify his position. An employee who makes a false statement under this Regulation or who fails to submit the specified statement or appears unable to liquidate his debts within a reasonable time or applies for the protection of an insolvency court shall be liable to disciplinary action.
Explanation 1.—For the purpose of this Regulation, an employee shall be deemed to be in debt if his total liabilities exclusive of those which are fully secured exceed his substantive pay for twelve months.
Explanation 2.—An employee shall be deemed to be unable to liquidate his debts within a reasonable time if it appears having regard to his personal resources and unavoidable current expenses that he will not cease to be in debt within a period of two years.
Employees arrested for debt or on criminal charge