GPF Recovery of advances Rule 13
The General Provident Fund (Central Services) Rules, 1960
RULE 13- RECOVERY OF ADVANCES
(1) An advance shall be recovered from the subscriber in such number of equal monthly installments as the sanctioning authority may direct; but such number shall not be less than twelve unless the subscriber so elects and more than twenty-four. In special cases where the amount of advance exceeds three months’ pay of the subscriber under sub-rule (2) of Rule 12, the sanctioning authority may fix such number of installments to be more than twenty-four but in no case more than thirty-six. A subscriber may, at his option, repay more than one installment in a month. Each installment shall be a number of whole rupees, the amount of the advance being raised or reduced, if necessary, to admit of the fixation of such installments.
(2) Recovery shall be made in the manner prescribed in Rule 10 for the realization of subscriptions, and shall commence with the issue of pay for the month following the one in which the advance was drawn. Recovery shall not be made, except with the subscriber’s consent while he is in receipt of subsistence grant or is on leave for ten days or more in a calendar month which either does not carry any leave salary or carries leave salary equal to or less than half pay or half average pay, as the case may be. The recovery may be postponed, on the subscriber’s written request, by the sanctioning authority during recovery of an advance of pay granted to the subscriber.
(3) If an advance has been granted to a subscriber and drawn by him and the advance is subsequently disallowed before repayment is completed, the whole or balance of the amount withdrawn shall forthwith be repaid by the subscriber to the Fund, or in default, be ordered by the Accounts Officer to be recovered by deduction from the emoluments of the subscriber in a lumps urn or in monthly instalments not exceeding twelve as may be directed by the authority competent to sanction an advance for the grant of which, special reasons are required under sub-rule (2) of Rule 12:
Provided that, before such advance is disallowed, the subscriber shall be given an opportunity to explain to the sanctioning authority in writing and within fifteen days of the receipt of the communication why the repayment shall not be enforced and if an explanation is submitted by the subscriber within the said period of fifteen days, it shall be referred to the President for decision; and if no explanation within the said period is submitted by him, the repayment of the advance shall be enforced in the manner prescribed in this sub-rule.
(4) Recoveries made under this rule shall be credited as they are made to the subscriber’s account in the Fund.