JOINING TIME (PUNJAB GOVERNMENT) — Joining time may be granted to a Government Servant to enable him to join a new post to which he is appointed while on duty in his old post or to join a new post, to travel from the port of debarkation or, in the case of arrival by aircraft, from its first regular port in Pakistan and to organise his domestic establishment when he returns from leave out of Pakistan of more than four month’s duration in respect of Government Servants. Joining time, joining time pay and travelling allowance of Government servants appointed to posts under the Punjab Government on the results of a Competitive examination, which is open to both Government servants and others. No joining time is allowed in cases when a Government servant is transferred from one post to another in the same office establishment. A Government servant on transfer during a vacation may be permitted to take joining time at the end of the vacation.