§ Sir J. D. REESasked the Under-Secretary of State for India under what Rules of Government payment of arrears of exchange compensation allowance is refused by local governments when passing a claim to monthly exchange compensation allowance; in how many cases during the last five years has grant of arrears of exchange compensation allowance been refused when the claim to draw such allowance is conceded; and whether, when refusing to allow arrears of exchange compensation allowance, a local government could quote the Rule under which the refusal is made?
§ Mr. C. ROBERTSI append a copy of a Rule which may perhaps cover the case the hon. Member has in mind. It will be observed that local governments have discretion to allow the payment of arrears of exchange compensation allowance, but no statistics are available at the India Office as to the number of cases in which they have refused to exercise it in recent years. If payment of arrears were refused under the Rule, the Secretary of State has no reason to doubt that the authorities concerned would quote the Rule if asked to do so.
"Civil Account Code, Volume I., paragraph 5 (c).
Claims of officers, whether gazetted or not, to arrears of pay or allowances or to increments which have been allowed to remain in abeyance for a period exceeding one year, cannot be investigated by an Accountant-General except under the special orders of the local government."