PUNJAB FINANCIAL RULES
VOLUME I (Amended upto 2015)
GOVERNMENT OF THE PUNJAB FINANCE DEPARTMENT
CHAPTER VII
PAY, ALLOWANCES, ETC. OF ESTABLISHMENT
7.1 [Deleted].
7.2 [Deleted].
7.3 Tile date of birth should be given by Christian era and if the exact date is not known the approximate date or year should be stated.
NOTE 1.— In cases where only the year of birth of a Government servant is known the 1st of July of that year should be taken as the date of birth. In cases where the month of birth is known but not the exact date, the 16th of the month should be taken as the date of birth.
In respect of cases arising on or after 20th May, 1938, the above procedure has been modified as follows :-
When a Government servant enters civil service either with or without having rendered any military service and the exact date of birth is not known but only the age is stated at the time of attestation, the Government servant should be assumed to have completed the stated age on the date of attestation.
NOTE-2—corrections in the dates of birth already recorded in the Service Record should not be made without the sanction of the Government in the case of officers and of the Head of the Department or Commissioner of Division in the case of officials. Against every such correction a note should be made of the number and date of the order authorizing it, and a copy of the order should be posted in the Service Record.
17[NOTE-2 “The date of birth once recorded at the time of joining government service shall be final and there-after no alteration in the date of birth of a civil servant shall be permissible”].
NOTE-3 [Deleted] For administrative instructions in respect of alterations in the date of birth, see Annexure B to this Chapter.