FUNDAMENTAL RULES
PART I
CHAPTER I
EXTENT OF APPLICATION
F.R. 1.
These rules may be called the Fundamental Rules. They shall come into force with effect from the 1st January, 1922.
F.R. 2.
The Fundamental Rules apply, subject to the provisions of Rule 3 to all Government servants whose pay is debatable to Civil Estimates and to any other class of Government servants to which the President may by general or special order, declare them to be applicable.
F.R. 3.
Unless in any case it be otherwise distinctly provided by or under these rules, these rules do not apply to Government servants whose conditions of service are governed by Army or Marine Regulations.
F.R. 4.
Deleted.
F.R. 5.
Deleted.
F.R. 5A.
Where any Ministry or Department of Government is of opinion that the operation of any of these rules may cause undue hardship to any person, that Ministry or Department, as the case may be, may, by order, for reasons to be recorded in writing, relax the requirements of that rule to such extent and subject to such conditions as it may consider necessary for dealing with the case in a just and equitable manner:
Provided that no such order shall be made except with the concurrence of the Ministry of Finance.
F.R. 6.
The Central Government may delegate to any of its officers, subject to any conditions which it may think fit to impose, any power conferred upon it by these rules with the following exceptions:-
- all powers to make rules:
- the other powers conferred by Rules 6, 9(6)(b), 44, 45-A, 45-B, 45-C, 83, 108-A, 119, 121 and 127(c), and *** [Powers delegated by The Government of India under different Fundamental Rules, are contained in an Appendix of this Compilation].
F.R. 7.
No powers may be exercised or delegated under these rules except after consultation with the Ministry of Finance. It shall be open to that Ministry to prescribe, by general or special order, cases in which its consent may be presumed to have been given.
F.R. 8.
The power of interpreting these rules is reserved to The President.
