(1) An employee shall not absent himself from his duties without having first obtained the permission of the Competent Authority, nor shall absent himself in case of sickness or accident without submitting a requisite medical certificate.
Provided that in the case of temporary indisposition, the production of a medical certificate may, at the discretion of the Competent Authority, be dispensed with.
(2) An employee who absents himself from duty without leave or overstays his leave, except under circumstances beyond his control for which he must tender a satisfactory explanation, shall not be entitled to draw any pay and allowances during such absence or overstay and shall further be liable to such disciplinary measures as the Competent Authority may impose.
The period of such absence or overstay may, if not followed by discharge under regulation 12
(4) of the Unique Identification Authority of India (Appointment of Officers and Employees) Regulations, 2020 or compulsory retirement or removal or dismissal under regulation 60, be treated as period spent on extraordinary leave.
(3) An employee who is habitually late in attendance shall, in addition to such other penalty as the Competent Authority may deem fit to impose, have half-a-day of casual leave forfeited for every day on which he is late in a month. Where such an employee has no casual leave due to him, the period of leave to be so forfeited may be treated as ordinary or extraordinary leave as the Competent Authority may determine.