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GOVERNMENT QUART RE AND RENT ALLOWANCES.
Free Quarters are not provided.
The following is a summary of the regulations
in regard to rent allowances and lodging allowances
in the case of officers not entitled to free quarters.
(a) an officer who occupies quarters supplied by Government pays rent for such quarters at the rate of 6 per cent. or 7 per cent. of his salary according as the quarters are unfurnished or furnished.
(b) Ordinarily an unmarried officer will not be allotted Government quarters for his sole occupancy.
(0) An officer not entitled to free quarters residing with an officer entitled to free quarters in such quarters shall pay rent at the rate of 3 per cent. of his salary.
(a) Then more than one officer occupies Government quarters the total rental charged is 6 per cent. or 7 per cent. (as the case may be) of the salary of the highest paid officer only.
(e) An officer who refuses to occupy Government quarters when allotted to him forfeits his claim to rent allowance or lodging allowance.
If Government quarters are not available,
an officer who rents a "tenement" with the permission
of Government receives as rent allowance the difference between 6 per cent. of his salary and the
sum of the rent and taxes payable in respect of the unfurnished tenement. For the purpose of this regulation the maximum rental inclusive of taxes which is recognised by the Government in the case of an officer whose salary does not exceed £600 is
/150 a month.
Ordinarily an unmarried officer will not be
allowed