‘File 15/9 I RULES AND REGULATIONS. File No. 15/9 ORDERS RECEIVED FROM THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA 1. POST AND TELEGRAPH DEPARTMENT 2. INDUSTRY AND LABOUR DEPARTMENT & COMMERCE 3. INDIAN WORDS CODE CORRECTIONS ETC. 4. ARMY DEPARTMENT. 5. EDUCATION AND HEALTH DEPARTMENT. 6. Policy Dept.’ [‎191r] (347/570)

Copt op Army Department letter No. 271-5-Q.-2 (A. D.-2), dated
the 31st January 1929, to the Secretary, Military Department,
India Oppice.
Maximum admissible for expenditure by concession passengers in connection
with return passages between India and the United Kingdom.
The exact intention of paragraph 1 of your letter No. M.-2078—1928, dated
the 4fch May 1928, is not clearly understood, and the word " impracticable "
used in the concluding sentence of that paragraph appears to require elucida
tion.
2. In the interests of officers themselves, a restriction has already been
imposed on the frequency of the use of passage concessions, see paragraph 4 of
Part III of Appendix II to Army Instruction (India) No. 5-S. of 1925. To
add further restriction requiring officers to book return passages, as a general
rule, would appear to interfere with the right to choose the line of steamers by
which they travel which they possess under note 1 to paragraph 4 of Part I of
appendix II to the passage rules.
For example, an officer might desire to spend a portion of his leave on the
Continent. He might book a single passage by Lloyd Triestino, spend some
time on the Continent and then proceed to England to complete the balance of
his leave, in which case he would normally book a return passage from England
to India direct by some other line of steamers. This booking of two single
passages would not be in accordance with the views expressed in your letter
referred to, even though the cost of the two single passages might not exceed
the cost of a return passage between Bombay and London by P. and O. 1st
Class " B
3. The Government of India would be glad to know whether it is the inten
tion that in future officers must, as a general rule, engage return passages on
all occasions when it is known that they are returning to India. Information
is also requested as to what is to be understood by the expression " clearly im
practicable When an officer knows that in the ordinary course he will re
turn to India, it would always be practicable for him to book a return passage
unless he is allotted a transport passage as an invalid. On the other hand, the
expression might be held to have particular reference to the places in which
the officer desires to spend his leave as in the example quoted in paragraph 2
above.
4. As it is desired to issue definite orders with as little delay as possible,
the favour of a very early reply is requested.
Copy op India Oppice letter to the Secretary to the Government cf
India, Army Department, No. M.-1135/29, dated the 16th March
1929.
Maximum admissible lor rxpenditure by concession passengers in connection
with return passages between India and the United Kingdom,
With reference to your letter of the 31st January, No. 271-5-Q.-2 (A. D.-2),
on the above subject, I am directed by the Secretary of State in Council to
inform you that it was not the intention to suggest that any restriction should
be placed on the right of officers to select the line of steamers by which they
should avail themselves of passages under the provisions of Army Instruction
(India) No. 5-S. of 1925, nor to require them to take return tickets if they pre
ferred to travel by two different lines. It is, however, considered that in normal
cases where an officer is travelling from and to India, or any other Station,
within the period of availability of a return ticket, the total expenditure ad
missible should be restricted to the maximum of the 1st Class ' B ' P. & O.
return fare by the all-sea route for the double journey, and that he should not,
in such circumstances, be permitted to utilise from his passage account the