Farewell

12. Subject to the provisions of any general or special order of Government, a Government servant may attend a farewell entertainment of a substantially private and informal character held with regard to himself or to any other Government servant or to a person who has recently quitted the service of Government on the occasion of his retirement from service or departure from the station of himself or such other Government servant or person. In accepting the invitation the Government servant should if necessary make it clear that the fhnction must be substantially private and on no account take the character of a public entertainment, that no address should be presented tohim or to other Government servant and that the organisers will,discourage the publication of the proceedings of the entertainment in the Press. Note:—A Government servant should, as a rule, discourage his subordinates from organising or participating in a farewell entertainment in his honour, as in the absence of such discouragement, the subordinates may feel themselves bound, as a matter of course, to organise such a function and incur expenditure thereon