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HONORARIA

According to the Civil Service Rules of Punjab, government servants may receive honoraria for occasional work that is laborious or of special merit, with prior approval. There must be separate orders approving the payment of the honorarium and the acceptance by the government servant. The reasons for granting an honorarium must be recorded in writing. A government servant's time is at the disposal of the government without claim for additional pay, even if performing duties outside their normal role. Honoraria should not be granted if the work falls within the government servant's ordinary duties, unless it demonstrates special merit.

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HONORARIA

According to the Civil Service Rules of Punjab, government servants may receive honoraria for occasional work that is laborious or of special merit, with prior approval. There must be separate orders approving the payment of the honorarium and the acceptance by the government servant. The reasons for granting an honorarium must be recorded in writing. A government servant's time is at the disposal of the government without claim for additional pay, even if performing duties outside their normal role. Honoraria should not be granted if the work falls within the government servant's ordinary duties, unless it demonstrates special merit.

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HONORARIA
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ACCORDING TO RULE 5.49 OF CIVIL SERVICE RULES (PUNJAB) VOLUME–I,
Subject to the conditions prescribed in Rule 5.50 a Competent Authority may grant or
permit a Government Servant to receive an honorarium from general revenues as
remuneration for work performed which is occasional in character and either so laborious
or of such special merit as to justify a special reward. Except when special reasons, which
should be recorded in writing, exist for a departure from this provision, sanction to the
grant of or permission to receive an honorarium should not be given unless the work has
been undertaken with the prior consent of the competent authority and its amount has
been settled in advance.
NOTE 1 --- In a case where an honorarium is to be granted to a
Government servant there must first be an order of competent authority permitting
acceptance of the honorarium by the Government servant, and there must also be
an order sanctioning the grant of the honorarium. In a case where an honorarium
is to be granted to a Government servant belonging to a department other than the
one which is to pay it, there should, therefore, be two sanctions, one for the
payment of the honorarium by the department in which the expenditure is to be
incurred and the other for the acceptance of the honorarium which must be issued
by the department to which the Government servant belongs. In order to avoid
duplication of work in having to give two different sanctions, one single sanction
should be given both to the grant and acceptance of the honorarium, and this
sanction should be given by the department paying the honorarium after obtaining
the concurrence of the department in which the Government servant happens to
be serving.
NOTE 2 --- The sanctioning authority shall record in writing that due
regard has been paid to the general principle enunciated in Rule 3.12 and shall
record also the reasons which in his opinion justify the grant of the extra
remuneration.

ACCORDING TO RULE 3.12 OF CIVIL SERVICE RULES (PUNJAB) VOLUME–I,


Unless in any case it be otherwise distinctly provided the whole time of a Government
servant is at the disposal of the Government, and he may be employed in any manner
required by proper authority, without claim for additional remuneration, whether the
services required of him are such as would ordinarily be remunerated from general
revenues, from a local fund or from the revenues of a Pakistan State.

Ch. Muhammad Imtiaz


Deputy Director Audit (Rtd)
Local Fund Audit
Government of the Punjab
Finance Department
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NOTE 3 --- Note 2 above requires that the reasons for the grant should
be recorded in writing as it is intended that the grant of an honorarium should be
carefully controlled by Government and scrutinised by audit and that audit should
be given an effective opportunity of comment if it be deemed necessary.
Accountant-General may, therefore, require that the reasons for the grant of an
honorarium should be communicated to him in each case.

NOTE 4 --- The amount of an honorarium must be fixed with due regard
to the value of the service in return of which it is given.
ACCORDING TO RULE 5.50 OF CIVIL SERVICE RULES (PUNJAB) VOLUME–I,
When the service rendered falls within the course of the ordinary duties of the
Government servant performing it the test of special merit prescribed in Rule 5.49 must
be very strictly applied.
NOTE --- The expression "within the course of the ordinary duties" has
been defined as follows:-
A service rendered by a Government servant is said to be within the course of the
duties of that Government servant when it is of the same nature as that for which
his regular employment exists. The test that should be applied in deciding any
particular case is to determine whether the service rendered is such as the
Government servant habitually performs in the course of his ordinary duties. A
service does not cease to be within the course of the duties of the Government
servant because it has been rendered for an object not concerned with the usual
operations of his department or involves an unusual expenditure or labour.

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Ch. Muhammad Imtiaz


Deputy Director Audit (Rtd)
Local Fund Audit
Government of the Punjab
Finance Department

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