(1) If the salary and allowances, if any payable under these regulations to an Officer after fitment in the new scale of pay in the manner referred to in Regulation 8 is lower than the aggregate of pay and such allowances as are set out in the explanation to this regulation and were payable to him immediately before such fitment, the difference shall be paid to him as a personal allowance which shall be absorbed in the future increments to the extent of 331/3 per cent of each such increment or of 331/3 per cent of the increase in the salary as a consequence of such increment whichever is lower.
Explanation:
The allowances referred to in this regulation payable before fitment are the following :
9 i) House rent allowance, wherever payable.
ii) Place allowance.
Note:
The House Rent Allowance, wherever payable shall mean:
a) Where a house rent allowance was payable to the Officer immediately before such fitment, the amount of such allowance.
b) Where immediately before such fitment in accordance with the rules of service then applicable, an Officer had been provided with a rent free accommodation or allowed to hire accommodation on reimbursement basis, such allowance only as would have been payable to him under these rules as house rent allowance or 10% of pay on fitment in the new scale of pay, whichever is higher.
Provided that where an Officer is eligible for house rent allowance in terms of Regulation 22, the amount of personal allowance, if any, payable to him under Clause (a) or (b) above shall be set off against such house rent allowance and difference if any after such set off shall alone be payable to him.
(2) For the purpose of computation of the personal allowance provided in Sub- Regulation 1 above such of the foregoing allowances excluding city compensatory allowance as mentioned in the explanation above would have ceased at any time to be payable to the Officer under the rules applicable to him before fitment in the new scale shall be excluded.
Absorption against future increments and increases :
11. For the purpose of absorbing the allowances mentioned in Regulation 9 and 10, the 331/3 per cent referred to therein shall be applied firstly for absorbing the adjustment allowance, if so necessary, and then the personal allowance.
Option for existing Officers: