‘File 15/10 – V Rules and Regulations. Fundamental Rules – Corrections – Audit Instructions and Amendments.’

Content

The file contains Government of India circular letters, memoranda and notices that were issued mainly by the Finance Department between 1938 and 1941. There are also circulars from the Office of the Accountant-General, Central Revenues, the Home Department, the Department of Education, Health and Lands and other Government departments.

The circulars contain regulations, rules, procedures, interpretation and guidance about personnel matters such as pay, pension, leave, travelling allowance and other service conditions of Government of India employees, including:

• Central Civil Services (Extraordinary Pension) Rules, 1939;
• Amendments to the Civil Pensions (Commutation) Rules and to the Premature Retirement Rules;
• Amendments to the Civil Service Regulations and to the Revised rates of Pay Rules;
• Numerous amendments to the Fundamental Rules and the Supplementary Rules;
• Regulating the grant of compensatory personal allowance under Fundamental Rules, 1938;
• Counting of military service during the First World War (1914-1918) towards civil pension, under Civil Service Regulations;
• Recall of officers from leave out of India on the outbreak of war in 1939 and their entitlement to allowances and concessions under Fundamental and Supplementary Rules;
• Recruitment and conditions of appointment of temporary Government employees, 1939.

The file also contains correspondence in 1938 between the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. , Bahrain and the Accountant-General, Central Revenues, New Delhi regarding:

• rate payable for the transport of personal effects in the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. area;
• method of calculating the leave salary of Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. clerks under the Revised Leave Rules, 1933.

Extent and format

1 file (321 folios)

Arrangement

File papers are arranged chronologically, according to the date they were circulated to the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. , Bahrain and others. They are followed by file notes (folios 311-325) which consist mainly of a list of the documents in the file, together with their unique document reference number to help identify them. The list also usually records both the folio number and the simple reference number from 1 to 124, which has been written on some of the documents, usually the circulation slips, in red or blue crayon and encircled. The pencilled folio numbers and the red and blue document numbers help to locate specific documents in the file.

Physical characteristics

Foliation: numbered 1A, 1B, 2-4, 5A, 5B, 6-30, 31A, 31B, 32-253, 253A, 254-326. The numbers 131 to 135 have been omitted. The numbering is written in pencil in the top right corner of the folio, starting at the front of the file, on the file cover (f 1A) and ending on the inside cover at the back of the file (f 273). The number 253A has been written on a correction slip attached to folio 253.

As a result of a partial and earlier numbering of papers towards the back of the file, folios 316 to 322 are additionally numbered 7 to 19 respectively, on the verso The back of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'v'. .

Written in

English in Latin script

Type

Archival file

Access & Reference

Original held at

British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity.

Access conditions

Unrestricted

Archive reference

IOR/R/15/2/1451

Former external reference(s)

English Office Series: 15/10-V

History of this record

Date(s)

26 Oct 1933-30 Aug 1941 (CE, Gregorian)

Subjects

Second World War (1939-1945)

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