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The document outlines the general conditions for various types of leave for government employees in Kerala. Some key points include: 1) Leave without allowances exceeding 180 days must be approved by the Government, while heads of department can approve up to 180 days and appointing authorities up to 120 days. 2) Leave is not automatic and can be refused or revoked based on work requirements. 3) Holidays can be added before or after leave periods, and impact pay and allowances. Medical certificates are needed for leave related to fitness. 4) Outside employment during leave requires prior approval, and recalled employees are only entitled to travel costs if the recall is compulsory before leave ends.

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The document outlines the general conditions for various types of leave for government employees in Kerala. Some key points include: 1) Leave without allowances exceeding 180 days must be approved by the Government, while heads of department can approve up to 180 days and appointing authorities up to 120 days. 2) Leave is not automatic and can be refused or revoked based on work requirements. 3) Holidays can be added before or after leave periods, and impact pay and allowances. Medical certificates are needed for leave related to fitness. 4) Outside employment during leave requires prior approval, and recalled employees are only entitled to travel costs if the recall is compulsory before leave ends.

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General Conditions of Leave

 The Government may issue orders specifying the authority by whom leave
other than leave without allowances exceeding a period of four months at a
time, may be granted. [Rule 64]
 The power to sanction leave without allowances exceeding a period of 180
days at a time will rest with Government [GO(P) No.102/2017/Fin Dated
07/08/2017]
 Head of Department can Sanction LWA up to 180 Days. Appoining authority
can sanction LWA up to 120 Days.
 Leave cannot be claimed as a matter of right. When the exigencies of the
public service so require, discretion to refuse or revoke leave of any
description is reserved to the authority empowered to grant it.[Rule 65]
 The nature of the leave due and applied for by an officer cannot be altered at
the option of the sanctioning authority [ Note to Rule 65]
 Holidays can be prefixed or suffixed with the leave and the Officer may leave
his station at the close of the day before, or return to it on the day following
such holiday or series of holidays. [Rule 66]
 A restricted holiday enjoyed with the permission of the competent authority
shall be treated as holiday [Ruling to Rule 66]
 If holidays are prefixed to leave, the leave and any consequent rearrangement
of pay and allowances takes effect from the first day after holidays [Rule 68
(a)]
 If holidays are affixed to leave, the leave is treated as having terminated on,
and any consequent re-arrangement of pay and allowances takes effect from,
the day on which the leave would have ended, if holidays had not been
affixed [Rule 68 (b)]
 When a Government Servant is certified medically unfit to attend office (Leave
on Medical Certificate), holidays immediately preceding the date of certificate
shall be prefixed to leave and the holidays immediately succeeding the date of
certificate (including that day) shall be treated as part of the leave [Rule 68,
Note 2 (i)]
 When a Government Servant is certified medically fit for joining duty (Fitness
Certificate), holidays succeeding the date of Fitness Certificate (including that
day) shall be suffixed to the leave, and holidays preceding the date of Fitness
Certificate shall be treated as part of the leave. [Rule 68, Note2 (II)]
 An officer on leave may not take any service or accept any employment
without obtaining the previous sanction of the authority empowered to fill up
the post held by him. [Rule 69]
 All orders recalling an officer to duty before the expiry of his leave should
state whether the return to duty is optional or compulsory. If the return is
optional, the officer is entitled to no concession. But if it is compulsory he is
entitled to be treated as on duty from the date on which he starts for the
station to which he is ordered, and to draw Travelling Allowance under rules
made in this behalf for the journey, but to draw until he joins his post, leave
salary only [Rule 70]
 No officer who has been granted leave on medical certificate may return to
duty without first producing a medical certificate of fitness a Medical Officer
not below the rank of an Assistant Surgeon or the Director of Indigenous
Medicine.[Rule 71]
 An officer on leave may not return to duty before the expiry of the period of
leave granted to him, unless he is permitted to do so by the authority which
granted him leave. [Rule 72(1)]
 Any kind of leave under these rules may be granted in combination with or in
continuation of any other kind of leave except leave under Appendices XII A,
XII B and XII C. However, leave under Appendices XII A and XII C may be
granted in combination with or in continuation of the leave under Appendices
XII A and XII C. [Rule 73]
 Vacation may be taken in combination with or in continuation of any kind of
leave, provided the total duration of vacation and earned leave taken together
shall not exceed 180days. The combination of earned leave and commuted
leave will be limited to 240 days. [Rule 74]
 Special casual leave may be combined with vacation, but in such cases
combination of special casual leave with ordinary casual leave will not be
permitted [Rule 74, GD No.2]
 No leave shall be granted beyond the date on which an officer must
compulsorily retire [Rule 75]
 Any leave granted under these rules may be retrospectively commuted into
any other kind of leave admissible to the officer at the time the original leave
was granted. Permitted within One year from the date of saction of leave.
Earned leave shall not be commuted into leave of a different kind [Rule 76]
 Surrender of Earned Leave once sanctioned will not be cancelled and the
earned leave so debited will not be recredited to the leave account.[GO(P)
No.128/2016/Fin Dated 01/09/2016]
 The maximum period of leave without allowance during the entire service of
an officer, to take up employment abroad or within the country and to join
spouse was limited to five years w.e.f 05/11/2020. [GO(P) No.87/2022/Fin Dated
03/08/2022]

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