23Payment where allowance not adequate or available

23 Payment where allowance not adequate or available

23 Payment where allowance not adequate or available

(1) If the agency head is satisfied that, but for this clause, the actual expenses properly and reasonably incurred by a Public Service employee in the performance of official duties—

(a) are not adequately covered by an allowance to which the employee is entitled under this Regulation, or

(b) are not covered by any allowance payable under this Regulation or under any State industrial instrument,

the employee is to be paid an allowance equivalent to the amount of those additional expenses or the amount of those expenses (as the case requires).

(2) An allowance is not payable under this clause unless the employee produces official receipts for the expenses incurred by the employee.

(3) An allowance under this clause may be reduced if it exceeds without good cause any limit approved in advance by the agency head for the expenses concerned.