P A R T I
Pay and General Conditions of Service
DEFINITIONS
11. Unless there be something repugnant in the subject or context, the terms defined in this part are used in the rules in the sense here explained:
(1) "Average pay" means the average monthly pay earned during the 10 complete months immediately preceding the month in which the event occurs which necessitates the calculation of average pay provided that in the case of an officer deputed out of India who draws pay as laid down in Article 37(a), his average pay shall be assumed to be the full pay which he would have drawn if on duty in India.
(2) "Cadre" means the strength of a service or a part of a service sanctioned as a separate unit.
(3) "Compensatory allowance" means an allowance granted to meet personal expenditure necessitated by the special circumstances in which duty is performed. It includes a travelling allowance.
(4) "Duty" includes service as a probationer or apprentice, provided that such service is followed by confirmation.
(5) "Honorarium" means a recurring or non-recurring payment granted to an officer or servant as remuneration for special work of an occasional character.
(6) "Leave on average (or half or quarter average) pay" means leave on leave salary equal to average (or half or quarter average) pay as regulated by Articles 77 and 78.
(7) "Leave salary" means the monthly amount paid by the Board to an officer or servant on leave.
(8) "Lien" means the title of an officer or servant to hold substantively, either immediately or on the termination of a period or periods of absence, a permanent post, including a tenure post, to which he has been appointed substantively.
(9) "Month" means a calendar month. In calculating a period expressed in terms of months and days, complete calendar months, irrespective of the number of days in each, should first be calculated and the odd number of days calculated subsequently.
(10) "Officiate" – An officer or servant officiates in a post when he performs the duties of a post on which another person holds a lien. The Chairman or the Board may appoint an officer or servant to officiate in a vacant post on which no other officer or servant holds a lien.
(11) "Pay" means the amount drawn monthly by an officer or servant as –
(i) the pay, other than special pay or pay granted in view of his personal qualifications, which has been sanctioned for a post held by him substantively or in an officiating capacity, or to which he is entitled by reason of his position in a cadre.
(ii) technical pay, special pay and personal pay, and
(iii) any other emoluments which may be specially classed as pay by the Board.
(12) "Permanent post" means a post carrying a definite rate of pay sanctioned without limit of time and included in the schedule of permanent staff under the Bombay Port Trust Act.
(13) "Personal pay" means additional pay granted to an officer or servant -–
(a) to save him from a loss of substantive pay in respect of a permanent post due to a revision of pay or to any reduction of such substantive pay otherwise than as a disciplinary measure, or
(b) in exceptional circumstances, on other personal considerations.
(14) "Presumptive pay of a post", when used with reference to any particular officer or servant, means the pay to which he would be entitled if he held the post substantively and were performing its duties; but it does not include special pay unless he performs or discharges the work or responsibility, or is exposed to the unhealthy conditions, in consideration of which the special pay was sanctioned.
(15) "Special pay" means an addition, of the nature of pay, to the emoluments of a post or of an officer or servant, granted in consideration of –
(a) the specially arduous nature of the duties; or
(b) a specific addition to the work or responsibility; or
(c) the unhealthiness of the locality in which the work is performed.
(16) "Subsistence grant" means a monthly grant made to an officer or servant who is not in receipt of pay or leave salary.
(17) "Substantive pay" means the pay other than special pay, personal pay or emoluments classed as pay by the Board under Article 11(11)(iii), to which an officer or servant is entitled on account of a post to which he has been appointed substantively or by reason of his substantive position in a cadre.
(18) "Technical pay" means pay granted to an officer in consideration of the fact that he has received technical training in Europe.
(19) "Temporary post" means a post not included in the schedule of permanent staff under the Bombay Port Trust Act.
(20) (a) "Time-scale pay" means pay, which subject to any conditions prescribed, rises by periodical increments from a minimum to a maximum. It includes the class of pay hitherto known as progressive.
(b) Time-scales are said to be identical if the minimum, the maximum, the period of increment and the rate of increment of the time-scales are identical.
(c) A post is said to be on the same time-scale as another post on a time-scale if the two time-scales are identical and the posts fail within a cadre, or a class in a cadre, such cadre or class having been created in order to fill all posts involving duties of approximately the same character or degree of responsibility, in a service or establishment or group of establishments; so that the pay of the holder of any particular post is determined by his position in the cadre or class and not by the fact that he holds that post.
(21) "Travelling allowance" means an allowance granted to an officer or servant to cover the expenses which he incurs in travelling in the interests of the Board’s service. It includes allowances granted for the maintenance of conveyances.