Other allowances

Other allowances.—

1. (1) An absorbed employee shall have the option to draw either the family allowance and house rent allowance in accordance with the law in force immediately before the appointed day or to draw the allowances and concession specified in sub-rule (3).
2. (2) Where an absorbed employee opts for the family allowance and house rent allowance under sub-rule (1), the amount of any such allowance which he may draw on or after the appointed day shall not exceed the amount of that allowance drawn by him immediately before the appointed day. If such an employee was working on the appointed day in a post to which house rent allowance was specifically attached and he is transferred later to a post in which no house rent allowance was allowed under the Portuguese rules, he shall not draw house rent allowance even if it is admissible in the latter post under the Central Rules.
3. (3) An absorbed employee who does not opt for the family allowance and house rent allowance under sub-rule
4. (1) may draw dearness allowance, house rent allowance, compensatory allowance, children education allowance and re-imbursement of tuition fees in accordance with the Central rules and may also avail of leave travel concession in accordance with the Central rules relating to that concession.