8. Method of purchasing tickets with coupons Sections 5-B and 6.
(1)Any Deputy Minister/Chief Parliamentary Secretary/Parliamentary Secretary or his/her spouse intending to undertake a journey, shall present the coupon books to the Railway Booking Clerk without detaching any coupon therefrom. In no circumstances loose Coupons shall be accepted by the Railway Booking Clerk.(2)The Railway Booking Clerk shall personally remove from the coupon books the number of coupons necessary for the journey. Before removing the coupons, the Railway Booking Clerk shall satisfy himself regarding the indentity of the Coupon Book Holder, where coupons in excess of those actually required, are detached from a coupon Book by a Railway Booking Clerk, a suitable remark such as "wrongly detached", shall be made by him/her on the back of the detached coupons and the loose coupons with remark so made shall be accepted when presented for the issue of a ticket subject to the condition that the Coupon Book from which the coupons have been detached is also produced before the Railway Booking Clerk.(3)In exchange of the coupon or coupons, the Railway Booking Clerk shall issue single journey ticket(s) as may be required, after scoring out the fare printed thereon and writing on the reverse of the ticket in red ink the words "R.T. Coupons for Deputy Minister/Chief Parliamentary Secretary/Parliamentary Secretary only".Explanation. - If Rail travel coupons from two different Coupon Books issued in favour of the same Deputy Minister/Chief Parliamentary Secretary/Parliamentary Secretary are presented for issue of tickets they shall subject to the provisions of this rule, be accepted by the Railway Booking Clerk.
