(1) A civil employee may be deputed to another place from the Ministry, Secretariat, Commission, Department or Office where he/she is serving only on the business of that body. Such deputation shall not be made for a period exceeding three months a year.
Provided that, deputation may be made on a training, symposium etc. for a period more than that.
(2) While deputing any civil employee to a body which has no post of the civil service and to an approved temporary position or while withdrawing deputation prior to the expiry of the deputation
period, the consent of the Ministry of General Administration must be obtained. The period of such deputation shall not exceed One year at a time.
Provided that, the consent of the Ministry of General Administration is not required for the deputation of the non-gazetted employee.
(2a) If any employee has to be deputed on works such as election, population census, survey and mining and on a commission of permanent nature for up to One year at a time, the concerned office shall obtain the consent of the concerned body and the Ministry of General Administration.
(2b) Notwithstanding anything contained elsewhere in this Act, no employee serving in the post of the Head of Department or Head of Office of any office shall be deputed to any other project or body by having the employee’s lien over that post.
(2c) Notwithstanding anything contained elsewhere in this Section, the Ministry of General Administration may depute the employee whose lien is in the additional group of the Ministry of General Administration to serve in any body, similar to his or her service or group, and the Ministry of General Administration may, with the consent of the employee serving institution and the institution receiving the employee on deputation, make inter-
departmental deputation of such an employee, for a term not exceeding Three months, in order to obtain the expert service of any civil employee.
(3) If any civil employee is deputed in contravention of ? Sub- sections (1), (2) and (2a), the salary, allowances and the amounts for other facilities earned and received by that civil employee so deputed during that period shall be realized from the deputing office-bearer as government dues, and • departmental action shall be
taken against such office-bearer.
(4) Notwithstanding anything contained in this Section, at the time of transfer of the District level offices to the Local Bodies, Government of Nepal may depute the civil employees serving in such District level offices.
(5) The lien of the employee deputed pursuant to Sub-section (4) shall be in the Ministry operating the employee’s service, group or sub-group. •
(6) The employees deputed pursuant to Sub-section (4) may be eligible to be candidates for promotion to their respective previous service, group or sub-group and if such employees are non-
gazetted employees, they may be eligible to be potential candidates for promotion to be made in the districts where they are serving.
(7) Other provisions relating to deputation shall be as  prescribed.