Pension Rules 2008

THE PUNJAB CIVIL SERVICES PENSION RULES GOVERNMENT OF THE PUNJAB
FINANCE DEPARTMENT
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C o n t e n t s
Punjab Civil Services Pension Rules
1. General
2. Service qualifying for pension
3. Different kinds of Ordinary Pension
and conditions for their grant
4. Amount of Ordinary Pensions
i) Section I – General
ii) Section II – Amount of Full Pension
iii) Section III – A – Gratuity and Pension Benefits
B – Gratuity
C – Family Pension
D – General
5. Applications for grant of pension
6. Anticipatory Pension/Gratuity
7. Deleted (Chapter-VII)
8. Commutation of Civil Pensions
9. Re-employment of Government pensioners
Section I – Re-employment of civil pensioners
Section II – Re-employment of military pensioners
Section III – Commercial employment after retirement
Section IV – Employment under a government
outside Pakistan after retirement
10. Extraordinary Pension
PENSION FORMS
Form 1 (Pen)
Form 2 (Pen)
Form 3 (Pen)
Form 4 (Pen) (Deleted)
Form 5 (Pen)
Form 6 (Pen)
Form 7 (Pen)
Form 8 (Pen)
Form 9 (Pen)
Form 10 (Pen)
Form 11 (Pen)
ANCILLARY INSTRUCTIONS
i) Restoration of commuted portion of pension
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ii) Restoration of pension surrendered in lieu of gratuity/commutation
Revision of rates of commutation and abolition of gratuity
Liberalization of pension rules – Family pension
iii) Verification of service of Govt. servants for purpose of pension.
Simplification of procedures regarding pensions.
Rationalization of grant of family pension to the widow/widower
in case of death of either spouse (civil servant).
viii) Grant of increase in pension to civil pensioners of the
Punjab Govt., retired in BPS-1 to 16.
ix) Further liberalization of liberalized pension rules for civil servants
family pension.
x) Inclusion of adhoc relief Rs.300/- in Pension
xi) Pension increase
INDEX
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THE PUNJAB CIVIL SERVICES PENSION RULES
CHAPTER-1 GENERAL
*1.1 Short title – These rules may be called the Punjab Civil
Services Pension Rules.
1.2 Commencement- These rules shall have effect from the
14th October 1955.
*1.3 Extent of application-(1) Subject to the provisions of rule
1.5, unless in any case it be otherwise expressly provided these
rules shall apply to all Government servants under the rule
making control of the Government of the Punjab.
**1.4. Deleted
1.5 These rules shall not apply to –
(i) Government servants paid from contingencies or
borne on Work-charged Establishment;
(ii) Government servants engaged on contract which
contains no stipulation for pension under these
rules;
(iii) any person for whose appointment and conditions
of service, special provision is made by or under
any law for the time being in force;
(iv) any Government servant or class of Government
servants who may be excluded by a competent
authority from the application of these rules;
(v) any Government servant who holds a post which
has been declared by a competent authority to be
non-pensionable;
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*Substituted vide Notification No. FD (SR-III)4-1/89 dated 1st March 1992.
** Deleted vide Notification No. FD (SR-III)4-1/89 dated 1st March 1992.
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(vi) any person whose whole-time is not retained for
public service but is merely paid for work done,
such as Government Pleaders and Law Officers
not debarred from private practice;
(vii) any person who is not paid from the provincial
consolidated fund, but is paid from a fund held by
Government as a Trustee, or from a local fund or is
remunerated by fees for the grant of a tenure of
land or of any other source of revenue or of a right
to collect money.
1.6 Definitions – (i) Unless expressly specified otherwise in
these rules, terms defined in Chapter 1 of the *[Punjab]
Traveling Allowance Rules have the same meaning when used
in these rules.
(ii) Pension – Except when the term ‘pension’ is used
in contradistinction to gratuity, pension includes
gratuity.
** (iii) Class IV Service – Class IV Service means any
kind of service which may be specially classed as
such by Government.
(iv) Superior Service – Superior Service means any
kind of service which is not Class IV Service.
(v) Ordinary Pension- Ordinary pension means
pensions other than extra-ordinary pension ***(and
includes special additional pension).
(vi) Full pension – Full pension means the amount of
ordinary pension admissible including * [commuted
portion of the pension, if any.]
* Substituted for the words “West Pakistan” vide Notification
No. FD (SR-III)4-1/89 dated 1st March 1992.
** Deleted vide Notification No. FD (SR-III)4-1/89 dated 1st March 1992.
*** Substituted for the words 1/4th of the surrendered portion of the Pension vide
Notification No. FD (SR-III)4-1/89 dated 1st March 1992.
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1.7 In any case where pension or gratuity is not admissible
under these rules, a competent authority may grant a pension
which will, not save in most exceptional circumstances, exceed*
[Rs.300] a month or a gratuity not exceeding the equivalent
value of that amount; provided that the general spirit of the rules
is observed.
1.8 (a) Good conduct is an implied condition of every kind of
pension. Government may withhold or withdraw a pension or any
part of it if the pensioner be convicted of serious crime or be
found to have been guilty of grave misconduct either during or
after the completion of his service, provided that before any
order to this effect is issued,** (the pension sanctioning authority
shall give full opportunity to the pensioner to vindicate his
position).
(b) Government reserves to themselves the right of
recovery from the pension of Government pensioner on account
of losses found in judicial or departmental proceedings to have
been caused to Government by the negligence, or fraud of such
Government pensioner during his service, provided that such
departmental proceedings shall not be instituted after more than
a year from the date of retirement of the Government pensioner.
*** [Note- If the departmental proceedings are not completed
within one year after retirement of the Government servant, he
may be allowed to draw up to 80% or less of full pension so as to
ensure that Government loss in full is recovered from the
balance. In the case of judicial proceedings, judgment of the
court may be awaited. If the proceedings are delayed beyond
one year after retirement, reduced pension may be allowed as in
the case of pensioners facing departmental proceedings. ]
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* Substituted for the word and figure Rs.100. vide Notification No. FD (SR-III)4-1/89
dated 1st March 1992.
** Substituted for the words “the procedure regarding imposition of the penalty of
removal from service shall be followed” vide Notification No. FD (SR-III)4-1/89
dated 1st March 1992. Added vide Notification No. FD (SR-III)4-1/89 dated 1st March
1992.
***Pension sanctioning authorities are provided at Sr.No.20, Appendix: A of the
Punjab (Civil Services) Delegation of Powers Rules, 1983, page_____. Added vide
Notification No. FD (SR-III)4-1/89 dated 1st March 1992.
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(c) In case the amount of pension granted to a
Government servant be afterwards found to be in excess of
that to which he is entitled under the rules, he shall be called
upon to refund such excess.
1.9 No pension may be granted to a Government
servant dismissed or removed for misconduct, corruption,
subversive activities or inefficiency, but, if he deserves
special consideration he may be granted a compassionate
allowance not exceeding 2/3rd of the pension which would
have been admissible to him, had he retired on invalid
pension.
1.10 Any of these rules may for reasons to be
recorded in writing be relaxed in individual cases by a
competent authority if it is satisfied that a strict application of
the rules will cause hardship to the individual.
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CHAPTER II – SERVICE QUALIFYING FOR PENSION
2.1 Conditions of Qualifications – The service of a
Government servant does not qualify for pension unless it
conforms to the following three conditions:
First – The service must be under
Government.
Second – The service must not be
non-pensionable.
Third – The service must be paid by
Government from the Provincial
Consolidated Fund.
* Note (1) For the previous service of displaced
Government servants which qualifies for pension see
Chapter VII.
Note (2) Service rendered after retirement
on superannuation pension/retiring pension shall not
count for pension or gratuity.
2.2 Beginning of service – Subject to any special rules, the
service of a Government servant begins to qualify for pension
when he takes over charge of the post to which he is first
appointed.
2.3 Temporary and officiating service – Temporary and
officiating service shall count for pension as indicated below:
(i) Government servants borne on temporary
establishment who have rendered more than five
years continuous temporary service shall count
such service for the purpose of pension or gratuity;
and
(ii) temporary and officiating service followed by
confirmation shall also count for pension or
gratuity.
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* Deleted vide Notification No. FD (SR-III)4-1/89 dated 1st March
1992.
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2.4 Service in a temporary post on abolition of a permanent
post – If a permanent post on which a Government servant holds
a lien, is abolished under circumstances entitling him to get a
compensation pension or gratuity, his service thereafter in a
temporary post under Government qualifies for pension.
2.5 Apprentices and probationers –
(1) One-half of the period of
apprenticeship qualifies for
pension.
(2) The service of a probationer who is subsequently
confirmed in a permanent post without interruption
qualifies for pension.
2.6 Training – The time spent by a Government servant in an
approved training shall count as service qualifying for pension.
Note – The period of training before actual appointment to
Government service shall not count for pension.
2.7 Leave – All leave (other than extraordinary leave) counts
as qualifying service for purpose of pension.
2.8 Military service – Military pensionable service, rendered
after attaining the age of 20 years, which terminates before a
pension has been earned in respect of it, when followed by civil
pensionable service, counts as part of such service provided that
any bonus or gratuity received in lieu of pension on or since
discharge from military service shall be refunded in lump sum or
in monthly installments not exceeding 36. The military service of
the individual concerned and the amount of gratuity paid to him
should be verified by reference to the Controller of Military
Accounts.
*(2) Persons who joined Armed Forces on or after the
outbreak of World War-II and rendered whole-time satisfactory
service in Government Forces under the British Rule in India and
Pakistan and were appointed in a civil pensionable post on or
before the 18th July 1949 shall be allowed to count such War
service not extending five years rendered between the 3rd
* Deleted vide Notification No. SR.III-6-42/91 dated 5th June 1997.
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September, 1939, and the 1st April, 1946 after attaining the age
of 20 years for purposes of Civil Pension and they shall not be
required to refund military bonus or gratuity.
* [(3) Service rendered in the Armed Forces by an
officer inducted in Basic Pay Scale 17 on regular basis shall
count towards civil pension.
(4) Service rendered in the Armed Forces by an
officer of the rank of Major and equivalent inducted in Basic Pay
Scale 18 after retiring from the Armed Forces on completion of
the prescribed age or service shall not count towards civil
pension. Such officer shall continue to draw his military pension
and his service in the civil post shall count towards gratuity or
pension, as the case may be.]
2.9 Deputation – Time spent by a Government servant,
holding pensionable post on deputation to (1) another
Government, (2) foreign service, or (3) service in a temporary or
non-pensionable post under Government counts for pension as if
it were a time spent under the Government.
2.10 Suspension – If a Government servant is suspended from
service pending enquiry into his conduct, the period of
suspension counts for pension if it is immediately followed by
reinstatement, ** [regardless of the fact whether the Government
servant was or was not allowed full pay and allowances for the
period of suspension. However, if the period of suspension is
treated as extraordinary leave, it shall not count for pension.]
2.11 Forfeiture of past service – A Government servant forfeits
his past service in the following cases:
(a) Resignation of a post unless it is to take up another
post service in which counts for pension;
(b) Removal or dismissal from service;
(c) Absence from duty without leave.
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* Sub-rule (3) and (4) added vide Notification No. F.D. (SR-III)-4-1/89 dated 1st
March 1992.
** Substituted for the words “Unless the Government servant is reinstated with
forfeiture of a part of his pay or allowances for the period of suspension”, vide
Notification No. F.D. (SR-III)-4-1/89 dated 1st March 1992.
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Note- (1) The authority which sanctions the pension
may commute retrospectively periods of
absence without leave into extraordinary
leave.
Note- (2) In case of a civil servant, who, with
the proper concurrence of the competent
authority, leaves service under the
Government of Punjab and seeks
absorption/employment under an
autonomous, semi- autonomous/local body,
where service is pensionable, the
Government, if it is so requested, will be
liable to share pensionary liability for the
period of service rendered by such civil
servant under the Government in
accordance with the Government rules.
2.12 Condonation of interruptions and deficiencies – (1) The
Administrative Department may for purposes of pension
condone all gaps between periods of service of a Government
servant.*
Provided that the gaps are not due to any fault or willful
act of the Government servant, like unauthorized absence,
resignation or removal from service.]
** [Note(1) Condonation of interruptions in service with a
view to allowing past non-qualifying temporary/officiating service
to qualify for pension/gratuity under rule 2.3 is not permissible.
Condonation of interruptions for pension/gratuity in
temporary/officiating service is permissible only where the
broken period of temporary/officiating service is qualifying, i.e. it
exceeds five years or is followed by confirmation. Where neither
condition is fulfilled, condonation of interruption is not
permissible. To make it more clear, the following illustrations are
given:
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*Added after replacing the full stop with the semi-colon vide Notification No. F.D.
(SR-III) 4-1/89 dated 1st March 1992.
** Added vide Notification No. F.D. (SR-III) 4-1/89 dated 1st March 1992.
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First illustration — A Government servant has the following
broken spells of temporary/officiating service:
(i) 5 years and one month followed by break.
(ii) 3 years followed by break.
(iii) 6 years.
First and third spells are qualifying under Rule 2.3 and,
therefore, can be counted (as 11 years and one month qualifying
service). The second spell of service being not qualifying will not
count and will be treated as a part of gap in between the first and
the third spell of service.
Second illustration — A Government servant has the
following broken spells of temporary/officiating service:
(i) 5 years and one month followed by break.
(ii) 3 years followed by break.
(iii) 4 years and 5 months.
Only the first spell is qualifying. The second and third
spells are not qualifying. Therefore, neither of the two gaps can
be condoned.
Third illustration — A Government servant has the
following broken spells of temporary/officiating service:
(i) 5 years and one month followed by break.
(ii) 3 years followed by break.
(iii) One year followed by confirmation.
The second spell is not qualifying. First and the third
spells are qualifying and the gap in between them can be
condoned as in the case of the first illustration.
Note (2) An interruption in service due to removal on
account of retrenchment of the post shall be deemed to have
been condoned. The period of such interruption shall not,
however, count as service qualifying for pension.]
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*[(2) (a) A deficiency of six months or less in the qualifying
service of a Government servant shall be deemed to have been
condoned.
(b) A deficiency of more than six months but
less than a year may be condoned by the Administrative
Department if both the conditions mentioned below are satisfied:
(i) If the Government servant dies while
in service or retires under circumstances beyond
his control, such as becoming invalid or on
abolition of his permanent post and his eventual
selection for discharge, and, but for such
contingency, he would have completed another
year of qualifying service; and
(ii) the service rendered by the
Government servant was meritorious.
(c) A deficiency of one full year or more shall
not be condoned.
Explanation: Deficiency in service can be condoned
under this rule at any stage in service up to the 30th
year. For instance, a deficiency of six months or
less will be deemed to have been condoned so as
to make 4 years and 6 months qualifying service as
5 years qualifying service, 9 years and 6 months
qualifying service as 10 years qualifying service
and 29 years and six months qualifying service as
30 years qualifying service. Similarly, 25 years and
3 months qualifying service can be treated as 26
years qualifying service through condonation of
deficiency of 9 months by the Administrative
Department under clause (b) of sub-rule (2)
above.]
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* Sub-rule (2) of Rule 2.12 substituted vide Notification No. (F.D.) (SR-III)4-1/89
dated 1st March 1992.
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CHAPTER III – DIFFERENT KINDS OF ORDINARY
PENSION & CONDITIONS FOR THEIR
GRANT
3.1 Classifications of pensions – Pensions are divided into
four classes:
(a) Compensation Pension,
(b) Invalid Pension,
(c) Superannuation Pension,
(d) Retiring Pension.
*[Note – Special additional pension is also granted to
certain classes of Government servants under special
circumstances. ]
3.2 Compensation pension – If a permanent Government
servant is selected for discharge owing to the abolition of his
permanent post or owing to a change in the nature of the duties
of that post, he shall, unless he is appointed to another post the
conditions of which are deemed to be at least equivalent to those
of his own, have the option –
(a) of taking any compensation pension and/or
gratuity to which he may be entitled for the service,
he has already rendered; or
(b) of accepting another post or transfer to
another establishment even on a lower pay, if
offered and continuing to count his previous service
for pension.
3.3 Invalid Pension (1) An invalid pension is awarded on his
retirement from Government service, before reaching the age of
superannuation to a Government servant who by bodily or
mental infirmity is permanently incapacitated for further service
on production of a medical certificate prescribed in sub-rule (3).
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* Deleted vide Notification No. F.D. (SR-III) 4-1/89 dated 1st March 1992.
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(2) A Government servant who wishes to retire on invalid
pension, should apply to his Head of Office or
Department/attached Department who should direct him to
present himself before a Medical Board or an Invaliding
Committee or a Medical Officer for obtaining a medical certificate
of incapacity for further service in the following form :-
“Certified that I(we) have carefully examined A,B., son of
C.D., a ………….. in the ……….. His age is by his own statement
………… years. I(we) consider A.B., to be completely and
permanently incapacitated for further service of any kind (or in
the department to which he belongs) in consequence of …………
(here state disease or cause).
Note – (1) If the incapacity does not appear to be
complete and permanent, the certificate should be modified
accordingly and the following addition should be made:
I am (we) are of opinion that A,B, is fit for further service
of a less laborious character than that which he has been doing
(or may after resting for …… months, be fit for further service of a
less laborious character than that which has been doing).
Note- (2) A medical certificate from a Medical Board or an
Invaliding Committee shall be required in the case of a gazetted
Government servant.
Note- (3) A Government servant who has submitted a
medical certificate of incapacity for further service should be
invalided for service on receipt of the medical certificate, or from
the date of expiry of leave if already on leave, or has been
granted leave as a special case.
*[3.4 Superannuation pension– A superannuation pension is
granted to a Government servant who retires on attaining the
age of 60 years]
3.5 Retiring Pension -A retiring pension is granted to a
Government servant, who not being eligible for superannuation
pension –
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*Substituted vide Notification No. F.D. (SR-III) 4-1/89 dated 1st March 1992.
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(i) Opts to retire after 25 years qualifying service
or such less time as may for any special class
of Government servant be prescribed; or
(i-a) is compulsorily retired, by the competent
authority, after *[20] years qualifying service;
(ii) is compulsorily retired from service by the
authority competent to remove him from
service on grounds of inefficiency,
misconduct or corruption **[.] ; or
***[(iii) retired from Government service on or after
21st June, 1960, but before 31st March, 1966
on or after attaining the age of 55 years.]
**** [Note (1) Subject to the provisions of the Essential
Services Maintenance Act, all Government
servants shall have the right to retire on a
retiring pension after completing 25 years
qualifying service; provided that a
Government servant, who intends to retire
before attaining the age of superannuation,
shall, at least three months before the date
on which he intends to retire, submit a written
intimation to the authority which appointed
him, indicating the date on which he intends
to retire. Such an intimation, once submitted,
shall be final; provided that if a Government.
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* For the figure ‘25’ the figure ‘10’ was substituted vide Notification No. F.D. SRIII-
4-14/2002 dated 24th June, 2002.
** Semi-colon and the word “or” at the end of clause (ii) were replaced with a full
stop vide Notification No. F.D. (SR-III) 4-1/89 dated 1st March 1992.
*** Clause (iii) of Rule 3.5 deleted vide Notification No. F.D. (SR-III) 4-1/89 dated
1st March 1992.
**** Added vide Notification No. F.D. (SR-III) 4-1/89 dated 1st March 1992.
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servant withdraws his application for
voluntary retirement, or modifies the date of
such retirement, before its acceptance by the
competent authority, the application or the
date of retirement shall be deemed to have
been withdrawn or modified, as the case may
be.
Note (2) The right given under Note (1) shall not be
available to a Government servant against
whom departmental or judicial proceedings
are pending.
Note (3) A Government servant can ask for retirement
only after completion of 25 years qualifying
service. A Government servant proceeding
on retiring pension shall, unless he has been
retired under the Efficiency and Discipline
Rules, has the right to avail of such leave
preparatory to retirement as may be
admissible to him. However, the LPR shall
not be allowed to him until he has completed
25 years service qualifying for pension. If a
Government servant proceeds on LPR
before actually completing 25 years of
qualifying service, he may be deemed to
have proceeded on retirement with effect
from the date he completes 25 years of
qualifying service, and the leave enjoyed by
him before completing 25 years of service
may be treated as leave of the kind due to
him.]
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CHAPTER IV – AMOUNT OF ORDINARY PENSIONS
SECTION I – GENERAL
4.1 (1) The amount of pension that may be granted is
determined by length of completed years of qualifying service of a
Government servant as set forth in rule 4.4.
(2) Pension is fixed in rupees and should be calculated to
the nearest paisa.
*4.2 (Deleted)
4.3
If a Government servant has held more than one post, in respect of
each of which, if he had held it separately and alone, pension
would have been admissible to him, the pension admissible to him
is the sum of the several pensions which would have been
admissible to him if he had held each post separately and alone.
**[The consolidated pension shall, however, be subject to the
maximum limit prescribed in rule 4.4]
SECTION II – AMOUNT OF FULL PENSION
***4.4
Amount of full pension – (1) After a qualifying service of not less
than 10 years, full superannuation, retiring, invalid or
compensation pension may be granted in accordance with the
scale laid down in the following table:
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* Deleted vide Notification No. F.D. (SR-III) 4-1/89 dated 1st March 1992
** Deleted vide Notification No. F.D. (SR-III) 4-1/89 dated 1st March 1992
*** Substituted vide Notification No. F.D. (SR-III) 4-1/89 dated 1st March, 1992
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PENSION TABLE
Completed years of
expressed as
qualifying service
Scale of Pension
Fraction of average emoluments
10 70/300
11 77/300
12 84/300
13 91/300
14 98/300
15 105/300
16 112/300
17 119/300
18 126/300
19 133/300
20 140/300
21 147/300
22 154/300
23 161/300
24 168/300
25 175/300
26 182/300
27 189/300
28 196/300
29 203/300
30 or above 210/300
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Provided that no full pension (inclusive of increase in an
indexation of pension sanctioned from time to time) shall be less
than Rs.300 per month.
(2) If, for a pensioner with qualifying service of 30 years or more,
the amount of pension calculated under sub rule (1) above falls
short of the amount of pension (inclusive of adhoc increase,
dearness increase, special dearness increase and additional
dearness increase sanctioned with effect from 1st June, 1973, 1st
August, 1973, 8th June, 1974 and 7th April, 1975 respectively)
that would have been admissible under the Pension Rules and
rates sanctioned in the Finance Department’s circular letter No.
SO(SR)-V-257/67, dated 27th April, 1967, as amended from time
to time, or exceeds it by less than Rs45, the amount of pension
shall be so increased as to make such difference one or Rs.45 .
Where the qualifying service is less than 30 years, but not less
than 10 years, proportionate reduction at the rate of Rs.1.50 for
each year short of 30 years, shall be made while working out the
amount of minimum increase mentioned above.
(3) In case the qualifying service of a Government servant is
more than 30 years, a benefit, to the extent of 2% of his full
pension for each completed extra year of service beyond 30
years, shall be allowed subject to a maximum of 10% of the full
pension (Discontinued through para-16(c) of the Pay Revision
Scheme, 2001, vide No.FD.PC.2-1/2001, dated 2001).
Note:
For the purpose of this sub rule, only the completed years of
qualifying service beyond 30 years shall be taken into account.
(4) The term “average emoluments” means –
(a) the last pay/emoluments drawn at the time of
retirement if the post from which the
Government servant has retired has been
held by him on a regular basis; and
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(b) in other cases, the average of the pay that
the Government servant drew, or would have
drawn, had he not been on lease with leave
salary or on joining time or under suspension
which is not adjudged as a penalty during the
last twelve months of his service a
Government servant has been absent from
duty on leave without pay, or has been under
suspension as a kind of penalty, the periods
so spent shall be disregarded in the
calculation of the average emoluments and
an equal period before the twelve months
shall be included; provided that in case the
pay of a Government servants (Efficiency and
Discipline) Rules, the average pay, at the
option of the pensioner, be calculated on the
basis of the emoluments admissible during
the last three years of service.
Note (1): Service in autonomous or semi-autonomous body –
The pay drawn by a Government servant in an autonomous or
semi-autonomous body, the authorized capital of which is wholly
subscribed by the federal and/or a provincial Government, in a
post, appointment to which is, by law, required to be made and
the salary or which is required to be fixed by the federal or
provincial Government, shall be treated as pay drawn in
Government service.
Note (2): The term “average emoluments” also includes the
senior post allowance (where admissible) and except for the
purpose of calculating the amount of pension under sub rule (2)
above, the indexed pay.
Note (3): The term “pay” does not include the pay drawn by a
Government servant in Foreign Service or additional pay for
performance of additional duties of another post.
*4.5 [deleted]
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SECTION III -A- Gratuity and Pension Benefits
4.6. ** (1) [deleted]
(2) *** [(a) If a Government servant retires or is selected for
discharge owing to the abolition of his permanent post, after
completing qualifying service of 5 years or more but less than 10
years, he may be granted a gratuity not exceeding one month’s
pay for each year of qualifying service, subject to a maximum of
Rs. 12,500/-;
Provided that if the retirement is due to invalidation, or if the
Government servant dies in service, the rate of gratuity shall be
1 ½ months pay for each year of qualifying service, subject to a
maximum of Rs.12,500/-.
(b) A Government servant in pensionable service, who is not
employed in a substantive capacity, may be granted pension or
gratuity, as the case may be, in accordance with the provisions
of Rule 4.4, if he retires from service, or if he is discharge after
completion of qualifying service of 25 years or more owing to the
abolition of his post or replacement by a ‘qualified’ candidate. If
such a Government servant is discharged after completing 10
years or more but less than 25 years qualifying service, he may
be granted a gratuity not exceeding one month’s pay for each
completing year of qualifying service subject to a maximum of
Rs.25,000/-.]
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* Deleted vide Notification No. F.D.(SR-III) 4-1/89 dated 1st March 1992
** Deleted vide Notification No. F.D.(SR-III) 4-1/89 dated 1st March 1992
*** Substituted vide Notification No. F.D.(SR-III) 4-1/89 dated 1st March 1992
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(3) * [In the event of death of a Government servant who has
rendered qualifying service for 10 years or more:
(a) If he dies before retirement, his family shall be paid (i) a
gratuity equal to the commuted value of one-fourth of his full
pension calculated as in sub rule (5) on the basis of age next
birth day of the deceased, and, in addition, (ii) pension at the
rate of 50% of the full pension for a period of 10 years;
(b) If he dies after but within 10 years of retirement, payment
shall be made to his family at the rate of 50% of his pension (net
or full, as the case may be) for the un-expired period of 10 years;
Provided that the family pension granted under clauses (a) and
(b) above shall not be less than Rs.150/- per month.
(4) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub rule (3) above and
rule 4.10, if the beneficiary of family pension is the widow or
widows of the deceased Government servant/pensioner, the
family pension, irrespective of the date of death of the
Government servant/pensioner, shall be paid to the widow(s) for
life or until remarriage. In the event of death of the widow, her
family pension shall be divided equally among the surviving sons
not above 24 years and unmarried daughters of the deceased
Government servant/pensioner from the deceased widow.]
** [(5)] In the event of death before retirement pension for the
purposes of this rule shall be calculated as if the Government
servant retired on invalid pension on the date of his death, but it
shall be admissible from the day following the death of the
Government death.
*** [Note-(1) Deleted]
[Note-(2) Deleted]
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* Deleted vide Notification No. F.D.(SR-III) 4-1/89 dated 1st March 1992
** Deleted vide Notification No. F.D.(SR-III) 4-1/89 dated 1st March 1992
*** Substituted vide Notification No. F.D.(SR-III) 4-1/89 dated 1st March 1992
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Note-(3) Gratuity payable under sub rule (3)(a) of this rule should
be worked out on the fraction of a rupee of the surrendered
pension calculated to the nearest paisa.
Note-(4) Anticipatory pension will also be admissible to the family
of the Government servant in the even of his death before
retirement. In such cases the gratuity admissible to the family
under sub rule (3)(a) of this rule will be calculated on 25 % of the
amount of pension on which the anticipatory pension to the
family is based.
Note-(5) This rule will also apply to the compassionate
allowance.
* [Note-(6) Deleted]
B – GRATUITY
4.7 (1) The term “family” for the purpose of payment of gratuity
under this section shall include the following relatives of the
Government servants-
(a) Wife or wives, in the case of a male Government
servant;
(b) Husband in the case of a female Government
servant;
(c) Children of the Government servant;
(d) Widow or widows and children of a deceased
son of the Government servant
Note-(i) A child means a legitimate child or an “adopted child” if
under the personal law of the Government servant concerned
adoption is legally recognized as conferring the status of a
natural child.
Note-(ii) If it is proved that the wife has been judicially separated
from the Government servant or has ceased under the
customary law of the community to which she belongs to be
entitled to maintenance, she will no longer be deemed to be a
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* Deleted vide Notification No. F.D.(SR-III) 4-1/89 dated 1st March 1992
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member of the family unless the Government servant has
himself intimated in writing to the Accounts Officer/Head of the
Office that she will continue to be so regarded.
Note-(iii) In the case of female Government servant, if the wife
intimates in writing to the Accounts Officer/Head of the Office
that her husband should not be included as a member of the
family, then he will no longer be considered a member of the
family unless subsequently she cancels in writing her intimation
excluding him.
(2) A Government servant may, as soon as he/she completes 5
years qualifying service, make nomination conferring on one or
more members of his/her family, or if he/she has no family, on
one or more persons, the right to receive any gratuity that may
be sanctioned under rule 4.6 and any gratuity which having
become admissible to him/her has not been paid to him/her
before death.
Explanation: It is not mandatory for a Government servant to
make a nomination.
(3) A nomination in favour of a person not a member of the
family made when the Government servant had a family shall
lapse on the Government servant acquiring family:
(4) If a Government servant nominates more persons than one
under sub rule (2) above, he/she shall specify in the nomination
the amount or share payable to each nominee in such manner
as to dispose of the whole amount of the gratuity mentioned
therein.
(5) A Government servant may provide in a nomination –
a) in respect of any specified nominee, that in
the event of his/her predeceasing the
Government servant the right conferred upon
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that nominee in sub-rule (2) above shall pass
to such other member or members of the
Government servant’s family as may be
specified in the nomination.
b) that the nomination shall become void in
the even of the happening a contingency
specified therein.
(6) Every nomination shall be in Form 1 (Pen), or Form 2 (Pen)
as may be appropriate in the circumstances of the case.
(7) A Government servant may, at any time, cancel a nomination
by sending a notice in writing to the appropriate authority, and
send a fresh nomination, if he/she so desires, along with such
notice.
(8) Immediately on the death of a nominee in respect of whom
no special provision has been made in the nomination under
sub-rule (5)(a) above or on the occurrence of any even by
reason of which the nomination becomes void by reason of subrule
(3) or sub-rule (5) above, the Government servant shall send
to the appropriate authority a notice in writing formally canceling
the nomination together with a fresh nomination, if any.
(9) Every nomination made and every notice of cancellation
given by a Government servant under this rule shall be sent by
the Government servant to his/her Accounts Officer as well as to
the Appointing Authority in the case of a Gazetted Officer and to
the Head of his/her office in the case of non-gazetted officer.
Immediately on receipt of a nomination from a non-gazetted
Government servant, the Head of the Office shall countersign it
indicating the date of receipt and keep it in his custody.
(10) Every nomination made and every notice of cancellation
given by a Government servant shall to the extent that it is valid,
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take effect from the date on which it is received by the authority
mentioned in sub-rule (9) above.
4.8 When the amount of gratuity has become payable, it shall be
the duty of the Accounts Officer to make payment according to
the following procedure:
(a) The amount of the gratuity or any part thereof,
to which the nomination relates, shall become
payable to his/her nominee or nominees in the
proportion specified in the nomination.
(b) If nomination relates only to a part of the
amount of the gratuity, the part to which it does not
relates shall be distributed equally only among the
members of the family other than the nominees;
(c) If no valid nomination subsists, the whole
amount of the gratuity shall become payable to the
members of his/her family in equal shares;
Provided that in case of (b) or (c) above no share shall be payable
to –
(i) sons who have attained the age of 24 years;
(ii) sons of a deceased son who have attained the
age of 24 years;
(iii) married daughters whose husbands are alive;
and
(iv) married daughters of a deceased son where
husbands are alive;
if there is any member of the family other than those specified
in sub-clause (i), (ii), (iii) and (iv) above;
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Provided further that the widow or widows and the child or
children of a deceased son shall receive between them in equal
parts only the share which that son would have received if he
had survived that Government servant and had been exempted
from the operation of the first provision.
(d) When the Government servant leaves no family
and the whole or part of the gratuity is not covered
by a valid nomination the amount of gratuity shall
be payable to the following surviving relatives, if
any, of the Government servant in equal shares:
1) brothers below the age of 21 years;
2) un-married and widowed sisters;
3) father; and
4) mother.
Note – In the absence of any other eligible claimant gratuity
would be payable to the sons and daughters of the deceased
Government servant in equal shares even if the sons are over 24
years old and the daughters are married and their husbands are
alive.
4.9 No gratuity will be payable by Government after the death of
a Government servant if he/she does not leave a valid
nomination or a family as defined in sub-rule (1) of rule 4.7 or an
eligible dependent relative or relatives specified in clause (d) of
rule 4.8.
C – FAMILY PENSION
4.10 (1) Family for the purpose of payment of family pension
shall be as defined in sub-rule (1) of rule 4.7. It shall also include
the Government Servant’s relatives mentioned in clause (d) of
rule 4.8.
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(2) (A) A family pension sanctioned under this section
shall be allowed as under:
(i) (a) To the widow of the deceased, if the
deceased is a male Government servant, or to the
husband, if the deceased is a female Government
servant.
(b) If the Government servant had more
than one wife, and the number of his surviving
widows and children does not exceed 4, the
pension shall be divided equally among the
surviving widows and eligible children. If the
number of surviving widows and children together
is more than 4, the pension shall be divided in the
following manner, viz. each surviving widow shall
get 1/4th of the pension and the balance (if any)
shall be divided equally among the surviving
eligible children. Distribution in the above manner
shall also take place whenever the Government
servant leaves behind surviving children of a wife
that has predeceased him in addition to the widow
and her children, if any.
(c) In the case of a female Government
servant leaving behind children from a former
marriage in addition to her husband and children
by her surviving husband, the amount of pension
shall be divided equally among the husband and all
eligible children. In case the total number of
beneficiaries exceeds four, the husband shall be
allowed 1/4th of the pension and the remaining
amount distributed equally among the eligible
children.
(ii) Failing a widow or husband, as the case may be,
the pension shall be divided equal among the surviving
sons not above 24 years and unmarried daughters.
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Note – In working out the share of the various heirs under
sub-clause (A) (i) and (ii), the amount should be calculated to the
nearest paisa.
(iii) Failing (i) and (ii), to the eldest widowed daughter.
(iv) Failing (i) to (iii), to the eldest widow of a deceased
son of the Government servant.
(v) Failing (i) to (iv), to the eldest surviving son of a
deceased son of the Government servant.
(vi) Failing (i) to (v), to the eldest unmarried daughter of
a deceased son of the Government servant.
(vii) Failing these, to the eldest widowed daughter of a
deceased son of the Government servant.
(B) If the family pension is not payable under clause (A), it may
be granted:
(i) to the father;
(ii) failing the father, to the mother;
(iii) failing the father and the mother, to the eldest
surviving brother below the age of 21 years;
(iv) failing (i) to (iii), to the eldest surviving
unmarried sister, if the eldest sister married
or dies then the next eldest;
(v) failing (i) to (iv) to the eldest surviving
widowed sister.
(3) No family pension shall be payable under this
section –
(a) to an unmarried female member of a
Government servant’s family in the event of
her marriage;
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(b) to a widowed female member of a
Government servant’s family in the event of
her re-marriage;
(c) to the brother of a Government
servant on his attaining the age of 21 years.
(d) to a person who is not member of a
Government servant’s family.
(4) A family pension awarded under this section shall not be
payable to more than one member of a Government servant’s
family at the same time except as provided for in sub-clause (A)
(i) and (ii) of sub-rule (2) above.
(5) (a) If the pension ceases to be
granted before the expiry of the period for which
it is admissible on death or marriage of the
recipient or on account of other causes, to
persons falling under sub-clauses (A) (i) and (ii)
of sub-rule (2) above, the amount shall be
granted to other recipients in equal shares.
(b) If a family pension awarded
under this section other than that mentioned in
clause (A) (i) or (ii) of sub-rule (2) of this rule
ceases to be payable before the expiry of the
period up to which it is admissible on account of
death or marriage of the recipient or other
causes, it shall be re-granted to the person next
lower in order mentioned in sub-rule (2).
(6) Government shall have discretion to make such
modification in the mode of allotment or conditions of
tenure set forth in sub-rules (2) to (5) above as they may
consider desirable to suit the special circumstances of
the beneficiaries.
(7) A family pension sanctioned under this section
shall be payable in addition to any extraordinary pension
or gratuity that may be granted to the members of a
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Government servant’s family under any other rules in
force for the time being.
(8) Further good conduct of the recipient is an implied
condition of every grant of a family pension under this
section.
D – GENERAL
4.11 (i) The rules which apply to the grant of ordinary
pension to Government servants shall also apply in respect of
gratuity and pension that may be sanctioned in favour of their
families under this section in so far as such rules are not
inconsistent with the provisions of this section.
(ii) Government shall have the right to effect recovery
from such gratuity or pension in the same circumstances as
recoveries can be effected from ordinary pension and gratuity
granted to Government servants.
(iii) A gratuity or pension to the family may be
sanctioned under this section by the authority competent to
sanction pension to the Government servant concerned after
giving due regard to the provisions of Rule 4.2.
Note- (1) Cases decided by Government before the
publication of these rules will not be re-opened.
Note- (2) The sanctioning authority may allow the payment of
family pension and or shares of gratuity admissible
to minor children of a deceased Government
servant to their mother. In case the mother is not
alive or was judicially separated from the
Government servant in his life time, the sanctioning
authority may nominate any suitable person to be
the guardian of such minor children for the purpose
of receiving payment of pension and/or shares of
gratuity on their behalf. In case the deceased
Government servant was a female, the sanctioning
authority may under similar circumstances allow
the payment of pension and/or shares of gratuity of
minor children of the deceased to their father, or if
the father be not alive to such guardian as may be
appointed by the sanctioning authority.
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CHAPTER V – APPLICATIONS FOR GRANT OF PENSION
5.1 All authorities dealing with applications for pensions under
these rules should bear in mind that delay in the payment of
pensions involves peculiar hardship. It is essential to ensure,
therefore, that a Government servant begins to receive his
pension on the date on which it becomes due.
5.2 The responsibility for initiation and completion of pension
papers is that of the Head of Department/Attached Department
concerned in the case of
* [Government servants holding posts in BPS-16 and above],
and of the Head of Office concerned in the case of **
[Government servants in BPS-1 to 15]. The action should be
initiated one year before a Government servant is due to retire***
[and pension papers, complete in all respects, should be sent to
the audit officer six months before the date of retirement,] so that
pension may be sanctioned a month before the date of his
retirement provided that —
(i) in case in which the date of retirement cannot be
foreseen 6 months in advance, the Government
servant may be asked to submit his pension
application immediately after the date of his
retirement is known, and
(ii) a Government servant proceeding on leave
preparatory to retirement in excess of 6 months may
be asked to submit his application at the time of
proceeding on such leave.
**** [Government instructions:
(i) Checking and maintenance of service books– (a) One
of the main reasons for delay in the timely sanction of pensions
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* Substituted for the words “Gazetted Officers” vide Notification No. F.D. (SR-III) 4-
1/89 dated 1st March 1992
** Substituted for the words “non-gazetted Government servants” vide Notification
No. F.D. (SR-III) 4-1/89 dated 1st March 1992
*** Added vide Notification No. F.D. (SR-III) 4-1/89 dated 1st March 1992
**** Added vide Notification No. F.D. (SR-III) 4-1/89 dated 1st March 1992
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is incomplete entries and lack of prescribed periodic checks of
the Service Books. To avoid delay due to this cause, it has been
decided that the Department should, where the workload so
justifies, exclusively designate a whole time officer for
supervising the maintenance of service books. In any case, the
responsibility in this respect should be clearly defined and
assigned. The entries in the service books should be clearly
made, verified and attested by the officers so designated. Officer
next above the designated officer or the head of an office, where
he is the designated officer himself, should record an annual
certificate in the service book in token of the correctness of the
entries made therein.
(b) The service book should be got verified from the audit office
immediately after the 10th and 24th year of service of the official
concerned. On the basis of these annual certificates recorded as
instructed in sub-para (a) above, the head of the office should
also record a consolidated certificate in respect of the entire
service period in the following form:
Service from to
verified from
There is no known disqualifying spell during the above service
except as detailed below:
(The period and nature of spell (s) to be indicated)
1.
2.
3.
This certificate should also be recorded before submission of the
case to the audit office as laid down above. The audit office shall
accept it as proof of verification of service.
(c) The service book should be maintained in duplicate, the
duplicate copy being kept in the custody of the Government
servant. Entries in the duplicate service book shall, as far as
possible, be made simultaneously with those in the original
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service book. However, this duplicate service book would serve
as a means of contemporary evidence, if needed.
(d) In the case of transfer of a Government servant, the original
service book, duly completed to the date of transfer, should be
sent to new head of the department/office and a copy of the
entries relating to the office from which transfer takes place shall
be maintained in that office; a certificate to this effect shall
invariably be recorded in the covering letter under which the
service book is transferred.
(ii) Review of delayed cases: Every Head of the
Department should review the position in respect of outstanding
pension cases every 3 months and furnish a statement of
outstanding cases including the cases of anticipatory pensions,
together with the reasons for delay and the remarks of the
Accountant-General/District Accounts Officer, to the Pension
Cases Disposal Committee.
(iii) Action in respect of condonation of interruptions and
deficiencies in service under rules 2.12 should be completed by
the head of the department/competent authority before
forwarding pension papers to the audit office.]
5.3 (1) The following certificate shall be recorded by the
Government servant in the pension application –
“I hereby declare that I have neither applied
for nor received any pension or gratuity in respect of
any portion of the service included in this application
and in respect of which pension or gratuity is claimed
herein, nor shall I submit an application hereafter
without quoting a reference to this application and to
the order which may be passed thereon.”
(2) * [Deleted]
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(3) All periods of leave, suspension, etc., which are not
reckoned as service qualifying for pension shall be
carefully recorded on the form.
(4) If the application is for an invalid pension, the requisite
medical certificate shall be attached to the application.
5.4 (1) After completing the application in the manner
prescribed in the preceding rule it shall be forwarded along with
the necessary documents to the Audit Officer through the
authority empowered to sanction the pension.
(2) The applicant for pension/gratuity shall submit the
last pay certificate and no demand certificate as soon as
possible after the submission of the application for
pension/gratuity. *[The Audit Officer shall not issue the
pension/gratuity payment order until these certificates have been
received by him.]
**[Note (1) Payment of pension should not be held up for want of
“No Demand Certificate”. It is not necessary to enclose the “No
Demand Certificate” with the pension papers when they are sent
to the audit office. The head of the department should, while
initiating action on pension papers, simultaneously notify to the
Estate Officer or other agencies which are likely to prefer a
demand, to verifying the position in respect of any demand
outstanding against the official concerned within a period of not
more than 3 months and to keep a close supervision of the
current demands. The department should also send the requisite
certificate to the audit office 15 days before the prescribed date
of issue of PPO. In case of failure of the department to send
such certificate before the prescribed date of issue of PPO it
should be presumed that there is no demand against the retiring
Government servant and the PPO should be issued. The
department should, however, obtain an undertaking from the
Government servant concerned that the outstanding dues, if any,
would be paid by him from his pension provided such demands
are preferred within one year from the date of his retirement.
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* Deleted vide Notification No. F.D. (SR-III)4-1/89 dated 1st March
1992
** Added vide Notification No. F.D. (SR-III) 4-1/89 dated 1st March 1992
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Note (2) Audit shall not insist on the prior recovery of pension
and/or leave salary contributions in respect of Government
servants who, before their retirement, had served in Autonomous
or Semi-autonomous or local bodies under the control of
provincial Government and in whose case necessary
contributions were to be made by those bodies. Such recoveries
shall be made separately by the Audit. In case recoveries are not
made within a reasonable time, the matter should be brought
into notice of the Government.”]
(3) The authority competent to sanction the pension
shall record on the application after due consideration of the
facts of the case his provisional recommendation stating whether
the pension claimed should be admitted or not.
5.5 (1) The non-gazetted service of a Government servant
in the application form shall be verified by the Head of Office
concerned from official records, for example service book or roll,
pay bill or acquaintance rolls, etc.
(2) If it be found impossible to verify the service
otherwise, a written statement of the applicant shall be taken on
plain paper, and such collateral evidence as may be procurable
shall be collected, for instance, certificates given by an officer to
a subordinate on his leaving the office and the testimony of
contemporary Government servants.
Note – The power to admit service verified under this
clause may be exercised by all authorities empowered to
sanction pension.
(3) In cases where some portion of pensionable
service was rendered in India but certificate of local verification
of service was not recorded in the service book for any particular
period, steps shall be taken to verify that service from available
records, if any, such as personal files, gradation lists, pay bills,
acquaintance rolls, etc. Where none of the records are available,
a written statement of the Government servant concerned should
be taken on a plain paper accompanied by the testimony of
contemporary Government servants as in sub-rule (2) above.
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Such declaration should be placed on record in service book in
lieu of local verification for service for that period.
(4) Where no official evidence, for example service
book, in respect of service rendered in India is available, an
indemnity Bond shall be obtained from the person concerned for
refund of any amount which might later on be found to have
been paid to him in excess.
(5) The Head of Office/Department/Attached
Department concerned shall then arrange with the application all
the documents relied upon for the verification of non-gazetted
service claimed in such manner that they can be conveniently
consulted, and forward them together with the Government
servant’s service book or service roll, as the case may be, and
the statement in the second page of the pension application form
duly completed up-to-date (and the last pay certificate, if
necessary) through the authority empowered to sanction the
pension to the Audit Officer.
5.6 On receipt of the pension papers the Audit Officer shall
apply the requisite checks. If in cases in which the authority
competent to sanction the pension has recorded its provisional
recommendation under sub-rule(3) of rule 5.4, the Audit Officer
finds that the claim is in order, he shall prepare the pension
payment order forthwith *[in Form 4 (Pen)], but shall not issue it
more than a **[month] in advance of the date on which the
Government servant is due to retire, intimating the fact of issue
to the authority. In other cases he shall certify as to the
correctness of the calculations of service and pension, and
return the pension papers to the authority competent to sanction
the pension with a report on the claim for pension and the rules
applicable to the case. He shall retain the last pay certificate
unless the pension is to be paid in another circle of audit in
which case he shall forward the certificate to the Audit Office of
that circle along with a copy of the orders sanctioning the
pension.
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* Deleted vide Notification No. F.D. (SR-III) 4-1/89 dated 1st March 1992
** Substituted for the word “fortnight” vide Notification No. F.D. (SR-III) 4-1/89
dated 1st March 1992
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5.7 (1) A pension/gratuity which is certified by the Audit
Officer shall be sanctioned by the authority competent to
sanction the pension.
*(2) The audit officer shall issue the pension/gratuity
payment order to the treasury officer who is to pay the
pension/gratuity.
**[(3) The pension/gratuity payment order shall, as a rule,
be issued —
i) In the case of normal
retirement, one month before
retirement, and
ii) In the case of premature,
voluntary or compulsory retirement or
death, within three months of the date
of the event.]
5.8 Date of commencement of pension – Apart from special
orders, an ordinary pension is payable from the date on which
the pensioner ceases to be in Government service. A gratuity
(other than anticipatory gratuity) shall be paid in a single sum.
5.9 Place of payment – A pension/gratuity is payable in
rupees at any Government Treasury in Pakistan.
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* Substituted vide Notification No. F.D. (SR-III) 4-1/89 dated 1st March 1992
* Added vide Notification No. F.D. (SR-III) 4-1/89 dated 1st March 1992
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CHAPTER VI – ANTICIPATORY PENSION/GRATUITY
*[6.1 When a Government servant is likely to retire before his
pension can be finally assessed and sanctioned in accordance
with the rules, the authority competent to sanction pension may
sanction an anticipatory pension equal to the full pension as
calculated by pension sanctioning authority.
Note (1) The authority responsible for sanctioning the
pension and the Audit Officer concerned should finalize the
pension case quickly so that there is no excess payment and if
any, it is adjusted as quickly as possible.
Note (2) If the pension papers are not verified by the Audit
Officer till one month before the retirement of the Government
servant, action as in this rule shall be taken by the pension
sanctioning Authority.]
6.2 The payment of anticipatory pension shall be made only
after the declaration given in Form 5(Pen.) has been obtained
duly signed from the retiring Government servant.
6.3 The authority sanctioning pension shall ensure that
pension is finally sanctioned as soon as possible.
6.4 The letter sanctioning the anticipatory Pension in Form 5
(Pen.) shall be addressed by the sanctioning authority to the
Audit Officer. A copy of the sanctioning letter shall also be
endorsed to the retiring Government servant and the Treasury
Officer of the Treasury at which the pension is to be drawn.
This letter will constitute sufficient authority for drawl of
anticipatory pension at the Treasury in question pending
finalization of the pension case. The pension payment orders
appended to such letter should be dealt with in accordance with
the instructions contained in W.P. Subsidiary Treasury rules and
a register of anticipatory pension payment order maintained in
the same form prescribed for regular pension.
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* Substituted vide Notification No. F.D. (SR-III) 4-1/89 dated 1st March 1992
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Note – Before forwarding pension papers to the
Audit Officer for scrutiny, the
sanctioning authority should enter brief
particulars of the case in a register to be
maintained specially for this purpose.
The register should indicate the name
of the Government servant due to retire,
the date of his retirement and the
amount of pension due to him as per
details passed on to the Audit Officer.
6.5 If the authority competent to sanction pension considers
it likely that in a case contemplated in Rule 6.1 above the
Government servant would be entitled to a gratuity, one-sixth of
65 per cent of the amount of such probable gratuity should, upon
a similar declaration be disbursed to him monthly for a maximum
period of six months until the amount is finally settled. Rule 6.2
to 6.4 above would mutatis mutandis apply in such cases.
6.6 The payment of the anticipatory pension/gratuity shall be
arranged so that it is not delayed beyond the first day of the
month following the month in which the Government servant is
due to retire.
6.7 If, upon the completion of regular investigation, it be
found that pension thus summarily assigned differs from the
pension finally settled, the difference must be adjusted in the first
subsequent payment. Further, if anticipatory gratuity proves to
be larger than the amount found actually due upon completion of
the enquiries, the Government servant shall be required to
refund any excess actually paid to him.
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* CHAPTER VII
GRANT OF PENSIONARY BENEFITS TO
DISPLACED GOVERNMENT SERVANTS
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* Rule 7.1 to 7.10 deleted vide Notification No. F.D. (SR-III) 4-1/89
dated 1st March 1992
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CHAPTER VIII – COMMUTATION OF CIVIL PENSIONS
8.1 A competent authority may sanction the commutation for
lump sum payment of a portion not exceeding *35% **
[(including 1/4th of the surrendered portion)] of any pension
which has been or is about to be granted under these rules.
8.2 (1) An application for commutation should be
submitted in Part-I of Form 6 (Pen) through the Head of the
Office in which the applicant is or was employed or if he is or
was himself the Head of the Office through the Head of the
Department/Attached Department.
(2) The Head of the Office or the Head of the
Department/ Attached Department shall forward the application
to the Accounts Officer who is reporting on the title to his
pension if he is still in service, or if pension has already been
sanctioned, to the Accounts Officer of the area in which the
treasury from which the pensioner draws his pension is situated.
(3) The Accounts Officer shall complete Part II of Form
7(Pen.) without delay and transmit it to the authority competent
to sanction the commutation.
*** [(4) If application for commutation is submitted
within a period of one year from the date of retirement of the
Government Servant, the commutation shall not be subject to
medical certification. In such cases, the Accounts Officers shall,
at their own, authorize payment of commuted value of pension to
the pensioners without asking for administrative sanction. In
other cases of commutation of pension, the provisions of rules
8.3 to 8.9 shall be followed.
(5) In the case of premature retirement on medical
grounds the requirement of medical examination shall not be
waived, even if the application for commutation is submitted
within one year of the date of retirement. ]
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* By 35% through Pay Revision Scheme, 2005 vide No.FD.PC.2-1/2005 dated 16th July, 2005.
** Deleted vide Notification No. F.D. (SR-III) 4-1/89 dated 1st March 1992
*** Added vide Notification No. F.D. (SR-III) 4-1/89 dated 1st March 1992
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8.3 (1) The authority competent to sanction commutation
shall thereupon accord its administrative sanction in Part-III of
Form 6 (Pen.) and transmit to the applicant on Form 7 (Pen.) a
certified copy of the Accounts Officer certificate contained in
Part-II of Form 6 (Pen.) of lump sum payable on commutation in
the event of his being reported by the proper medical authority to
be fit subject for commutation and one copy of Form 8 (Pen.)
Part-I of which is to be filled in by the applicant before his
medical examination and handed to the medical authority.
(2) The sanctioning authority shall further instruct the
applicant to appear for examination before the said medical
authority within three months from the date of its order, or if he
has applied for commutation in advance on the date of his
retirement within three months of the date, but in no case earlier
than the actual date of retirement.
(3) The sanctioning authority shall forward to the
Health Department in original the completed Form 6 (Pen)
together with a copy of Form 8 (Pen.) and an extra copy of Part-
III of that form; and if the applicant has been granted an invalid
pension, or has previously commuted any portion of his pension
or declined to accept commutation on the basis of an addition of
years to his actual age, or has been refused commutation on
medical grounds, copies of the previous medical reports or
statements of his case.
8.4 The Health Department shall arrange for the medical
examination of the applicant by the proper medical authority at
the nearest available station to that named by the applicant in
Part-I of Form 6 (Pen.) and as early as possible within the period
prescribed and inform the applicant direct. The form and other
documents should be transmitted by the Health Department to
the examining medical authority.
Note – The term ‘medical authority’ means –
(i) the Standing Medical Board or the Standing
Invaliding Committee in the case of Gazetted Government
servants and also in the case of non-Gazetted Government
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servants drawing pay not less than Rs.400 at the time of
retirement; and
(ii) the Medical Superintendent/District Health Officer
in the case of all other non-Gazetted Government servants.
8.5 (1) The medical authority after obtaining from the
applicant, a statement in Part-I of Form 8 (Pen.) (which must be
signed in its presence) shall subject him to a strict examination,
enter the results in Part-II and complete the certificate contained
in Part-III of Form 8 (Pen.) and in the case of non-Gazetted
Government servants other than those specially exempted by
Government, obtain in its presence the left hand thumb and
finger impressions.
(2) If the examination is conducted by a single medical
officer the applicant shall himself pay the Medical Officer’s fee for
examination.
If he is examined by a Medical Board or Committee
he shall pay a fee of Rs.4 into a Government treasury and make
over the receipt for the fee to the Medical Board or Committee
before examination together with an additional fee of Rs.12 in
cash to be retained and divided by the members of the Board or
the Committee as the case may be, among themselves.
Note – No fee will be payable for medical examination in
case the full pension, of the applicant does not or is not likely to
exceed Rs.100 per mensem.
(3) The medical authority shall without delay forward
the completed Form 6 (Pen.) and Form 8 (Pen) in original to the
Accounts Officer who gave the certificate contained in Part-II of
Form 6 (Pen.), regarding the commutation amount admissible to
the applicant, and certified copy of the completed Form 8 (Pen.)
to the sanctioning authority. A certified copy of the medical
certificate in Part-III of Form 8 (Pen.) should be given to the
applicant on the spot after medical examination.
8.6 If the medical examination does not take place within the
period prescribed in the sanctioning order, or if the applicant
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does not appear for examination before the medical authority
within the prescribed period, the sanctioning authority may
renew administrative sanction for a further period of three
months without obtaining a fresh application for commutation of
pension. The applicant may withdraw his application, by written
notice dispatched at any time before the medical examination is
due to take place, but his option shall expire on his appearance
before a medical authority; provided that if the medical authority
directs that his age for the purpose of commutation shall be
assumed to be greater than his actual age, the applicant may
withdraw his application by written notice dispatched within two
weeks from the date on which he received intimation of the
revised sum payable on commutation, or, if the sum is already
stated in the sanctioning order, within two weeks from the date
on which he receives intimation of the finding of the medical
authority. If the applicant does not withdraw in writing his
application within the period of two weeks prescribed above, he
shall be assumed to have accepted the sum offered.
8.7 *[(a)] Subject to the provisions contained in rule 8.8 and to
the withdrawal of an application under rule 8.6, the commutation
shall become absolute, that is, the title to receive the commuted
portion of the pension shall cease and the title to receive the
commuted value shall accrue on the date on which the medical
authority signs the medical certificate.
**[(b) In cases where a pensioner asks for commutation of
pension by applying to the Accounts Officers concerned within
one year of his retirement, the commutation will become
absolute on the date of application for commutation made to the
Accounts Officer and the title to receive the commuted portion of
pension will cease on and from that date.]
8.8 If the applicant makes any statement found to be false
within his knowledge or willfully suppresses any material fact in
answer to any question written or oral put to him in connection
with his medical examination the sanctioning authority may
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*Rule 8.7 renumbered as 8.7 (a) vide Notification No. F.D. (SR-III) 4-1/89 dated 1st
March 1992
** Added vide Notification No. F.D. (SR-III) 4-1/89 dated 1st March 1992
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cancel the sanction at any time before payment is actually made;
and such a statement of suppression may be treated as grave
misconduct for the purpose of rule 1.8.
8.9 (1) The Accounts Officer on receipt of the completed
Form 6 (Pen.) and 8 (Pen.) shall arrange forthwith for the
payment of the appropriate commuted value and for the
corresponding reduction of the pension. He shall also forward to
the disbursing officer Form 8(Pen.) containing the signature and
thumb and finger impressions of non-Gazetted Government
servants, taken in the presence of the medical authority, with
instructions that they should be verified with those received with
the pension payment order.
(2) If the applicant on receipt of the sanctioning order
withdraws the application within the period prescribed in rule 8.6
he should intimate his intention in writing to the Accounts Officer
direct and to the sanctioning authority simultaneously.
(3) The payment of the commuted value shall be made
in rupees in Pakistan as expeditiously as possible but in the case
of an impaired life no payment shall be made till either a written
acceptance of the commutation has been received or the period
within which the application for the commutation may be
withdrawn has expired, whatever the date of actual payment, the
amount paid and the effect upon the pension shall be the same if
the commuted value is paid on the date on which commutation
became absolute, the amount drawn shall be deducted from the
amount payable in commutation.
8.10 If a pensioner, part of whose pension has been
commuted, dies on or after the date on which the commutation
became absolute but before receiving the commutation value,
this value shall be paid to his family or eligible relatives in the
same manner as gratuity is payable under rules 4.7 and 4.8.
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8.11 *[(a)] The lump sum payable on commutation shall be
calculated in accordance with the table of present values given
below:
**[COMMUTATION TABLE
Age next Number of years Age next
birthday purchased birthday purchased
20 40.5043 51 17.6526
21 39.7341 52 17.0050
22 38.9653 53 16.3710
23 38.1974 54 15.7517
24 37.4307 55 15.1478
25 36.6651 56 14.5602
26 35.9006 57 13.9888
27 35.1372 58 13.4340
28 34.3750 59 12.8953
29 33.6143 60 12.3719
30 32.8071 61 11.8632
31 32.0974 62 11.3684
32 31.3412 63 10.8872
33 30.5869 64 10.4191
34 29.8343 65 9.9639
35 29.0841 66 9.5214
36 28.3362 67 9.0914
37 27.5908 68 8.6742
38 26.8482 69 8.2697
39 26.1009 70 7.8778
40 25.3728 71 7.4983
41 24.6406 72 7.1314
42 23.9126 73 6.7766
43 23.1840 74 6.4342
44 22.4713 75 6.1039
45 21.7592 76 5.7858
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* Rule 8.11 renumbered as 8.1 (a) vide Notification No. F.D. (SR-III) 4-1/89
dated 1st March 1992
** Table replaced vide Notification No. F.D. PC.2-1/2001 dated 22.10.2001
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46 21.0538 77 5.4797
47 20.3555 78 5.1854
48 19.6653 79 4.9030
49 18.9841 80 4.6321
50 18.3129
*[(b) A Government servant retiring after attaining the age of 60
years shall be allowed commuted value of pension as applicable
at the age of 60 years instead of 61 years, if he applies for
commutation while in service.]
Discontinued through para:16(e) of the Pay Revision Scheme,
2001 vide No.FD.PC.2-1/2001, dated 22.10.2001 for civil
servants retiring on or after 1.12.2001.
**[8.12. (a) The commuted portion of pension to the extent of
1/4th of full pension shall be restored to the pensioners on
completion of the number of years for which commuted value is
paid.
(b) In restoring the commuted portion of pension under
sub-rule (1), the fraction of a year mentioned in the Commutation
Table which is less than six months shall be ignored and that of
six months or more shall count as one year.
(c) In the case of a pensioner who had surrendered 1/4th
of his full pension for gratuity under the rules applicable to him at
the time of his retirement, the amount surrendered for gratuity
(i.e. 1/4th of full pension) shall be restored on completion of the
period for which the gratuity was paid. The rate of gratuity shall
be divided by 12 to arrive at the period for which gratuity was
paid. For example, if a pensioner had received gratuity at the
rate of Rs. 160 for each rupee surrendered, his period of gratuity
would work out to 13.33 years.
(d) A pensioner who had surrendered 1/4th of his full
pension for commutation and 1/4th for gratuity, shall be entitled to
the restoration of commuted portion of his pension only at the
expiry of the period for which the commutation was allowed.
Note. The benefit of restoration of 1/4th of full pension
surrendered for gratuity or commutation is not admissible in the
case of family pension.]
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* Added vide Notification No. F.D. (SR-III) 4-1/89 dated 1st March 1992
** Added vide Notification No. F.D. (SR-III) 4-1/89 dated 1st March 1992
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CHAPTER IX – RE-EMPLOYMENT OF GOVERNMENT
PENSIONERS
SECTION 1
Re-employment of Civil Pensioners
9.1 When a person who was formerly in Government
employment obtains re-employment, whether temporarily or
permanently in Government service or in the service of a local
fund, it shall be incumbent on him to declare to the appointing
authority the amount of any gratuity, bonus or full pension
(inclusive of 1/4th of the surrendered portion or commuted portion
of the pension) originally granted to him in respect of the
previous employment.
9.2 The amount of wound or other extraordinary pension
sanctioned under these rules and a wound or injury or disability
pension or a disability addition to pension awarded under the
military rules shall not be taken into account when fixing the pay
during re-employment.
*[9.3 A Government pensioner in receipt of compensation or
invalid pension or compassionate allowance, on re-employment
in service qualifying for pension, may either retain his
gratuity/pension in which case his former service will not count
for future pension, or refund the gratuity and/or commuted value
of pension (if drawn) and cease to draw any part of his pension,
and count his previous service. Reduced pension intermediately
drawn need not be refunded.]
9.4 (1) A Government pensioner who is in receipt of a
superannuation or retiring pension shall not be re-employed, or
continued to be re-employed in any Government Department
except on public grounds and with the sanction of the competent
authority.
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* Substituted vide Notification No. F.D. (SR-III) 4-1/89 dated 1st March 1992
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(2) All authorities administering local fund are
empowered to re-employ Government pensioners in respect of
superannuation or retiring pension in service paid from a local
fund, provided their pay is fixed in accordance with the principles
laid down by Government from time to time for fixation of pay
and allowances of Government pensioner re-employed in
Government Departments. If in special circumstances any
departure is proposed to be made, the orders of the Chief
Executive of the authority should be obtained and the reasons
for which the relaxation is made recorded in writing.
*[(3) Re-employment of retired Government servants shall
be made in posts carrying basic pay scales equivalent to the
basic pay scales of the posts held by them substantively at the
time of retirement or the posts held by them otherwise than in a
substantive capacity if held for a period of one year before
retirement.]
Note (1) A Government servant who has retired from regular
establishment on superannuation or retiring pension cannot be
re-employed on work-charged establishment or contingent
establishment except on public grounds and in accordance with
the **[procedure laid down in the] rules in this Chapter***
[regarding re-employment.]
Note (2) ***** [Deleted]
****9.5 The pay of Government pensioners re-employed under
the Government or under a Government owned/controlled
autonomous/semi-autonomous body or corporation shall be fixed
in accordance with the principles laid down below:
(i) Posts under Government:
a) A retired civil servant re-employed on a civil
post equivalent to the post from which he
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* Added vide Notification No. F.D. (SR-III) 4-1/89 dated 1st March 1992
** Deleted vide Notification No. F.D. (SR-III) 4-1/89 dated 1st March 1992
*** Deleted vide Notification No. F.D. (SR-III) 4-1/89 dated 1st March 1992
**** Deleted vide Notification No. F.D. (SR-III) 4-1/89 dated 1st March 1992
*****Amended vide Notification No. FD.SR.III.4-1/89 dated 29th April 2002
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retired, shall be equivalent to the post from
which he retired, shall be allowed the pay,
allowance and perquisites sanctioned for the
post. His pay shall be fixed at that stage of the
time scale of the post at which he was drawing
his pay before retirement plus pension as
entitled under Pension Rules.
b) A retired civil servant re-employed against a
higher post may be allowed the last pay drawn
with allowances and perquisites sanctioned for
the post plus pension.
c) In case a re-employed Government servant is
promoted to a higher post, his pay shall be fixed
in such manner as if he was a serving
Government servant.
d) If the substantive pay last drawn was more than
the maximum of the scale of the post, he shall
be allowed the pay fixed at maximum plus
pension.
e) A re-employed pensioner will earn increments
in all cases where his pay has been fixed in a
time scale at a stage lower than the maximum.
f) In case a re-employed pensioner had been
drawing officiating pay in a particular pay scale
for the continuous period of three years or more
higher than his substantive pay, the officiating
pay drawn before retirement may be treated as
substantive pay for the purpose of this rule.
g) A retired judge of the superior courts on reemployment
may be allowed pay, allowances
and perquisites sanctioned for the post and his
pay may be fixed at the maximum of the pay
scale of the post with full pension.
ii) Autonomous or Semi-autonomous bodies:
a) A retired civil servant and a retired judge of
the superior courts on re-employment in an
autonomous or semi-autonomous body
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administered or controlled by the Provincial
Government may be allowed pay as
determined above with allowance and
perquisites sanctioned for the post plus full
pension as permissible under the rules.
b) Where the terms and conditions of a post are
prescribed in a statute or a statutory
notification, the provinces of the statute or the
statutory notification as the case may be
should prevail.
SECTION II
RE-EMPLOYMENT OF MILITARY PENSIONERS
* [9.6 (a) In the case of officers of Armed Services, reemployment
shall be made on contract in accordance with the
instructions contained in the Federal Establishment Division’s
Office Memorandum No. 14/5/78-D.III dated 10th February 1980,
in the case of civil posts and in the light of orders issued in
pursuance of the Federal Establishment Division’s Office
Memorandum No.14/5/78-D.III, dated the 11th February 1980, in
the case of autonomous bodies. For this purpose, equivalent pay
scale in the civil post shall be determined according to the
following formula:
Defence Service Rank Equivalent Basic Pay Scale
Major General and BPS-21 or 22 at
equivalent the discretion of the Government
Brigadier and equivalent BPS-20
Colonel and Lt. Colonel BPS-19
(with 18 to 20 years
commissioned service)
and equivalent.
Major and equivalent. BPS-18
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* Substituted vide Notification No. F.D. (SR-III) 4-1/89 dated 1st March 1992
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Captain and equivalent BPS-17
and Lieutenant and
Second Lieutenant and equivalent.
Copies of office memoranda No. 14/5/78-D. III dated 10th
February 1980 and N0.14/5/78-D III dated 11th February 1980
have been added as Annexure to this chapter.
* (b) Posts under Government:
i) A retired officer of the Armed Forces re-employed
against an equivalent post under the Provincial
Government may be allowed the pay, allowances,
perquisites sanctioned for the post. His pay may be
fixed at that stage of the time scale of the post at
which he was drawing his pay before retirement
plus pension entitled under the rules.
** ii) A retired civil servant or a retired officer of the
Armed Forces re-employed against a higher post,
may be allowed the last pay drawn, provided that if
he was drawing pay in a previous pay scale before
his retirement, his pay may be fixed in the present
scale at the relevant stage plus allowances and
perquisites sanctioned for the post.
Autonomous/Semi-Autonomous bodies:
i) A retired officer of the Armed Forces on reemployment
in an autonomous or semiautonomous
body administered or controlled by the
Provincial Government may be allowed pay as
determined above with the allowances and
perquisites sanctioned for the post plus pension as
entitled under the rules.
ii) Where the terms and conditions of the post are
prescribed in a statute or a statutory notification,
the provisions of the statutory notification, as the
case may be, should prevail.
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* Amended vide Notification No. FD.SR.III.4-1/89 dated 29th April 2002
**Amended vide Notification No. FD-SR.III-4-53/2005 dated 16.09.2005
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(c) When retired junior commissioned officers, noncommissioned
officers and other ranks are re-employed under
the provincial Government or autonomous/semi-autonomous
bodies, they should be asked to exercise an option whether they
would like to be re-employed on contract or on permanent basis.
The option once exercised shall be final.
(d) On re-employment, the pay of junior commissioned
officers, non-commissioned officers and other ranks shall be
fixed at the minimum of the pay scale of the post on which they
are re-employed. In addition, they will be entitled to draw their
service pension. However, in the case of those who have opted
for re-employment on contract under sub-rule(b), service
rendered under the Government or in an autonomous/semiautonomous
body shall not qualify for a second pension. Those
re-employed on permanent basis shall be entitled to civil
pension/gratuity if permissible under the rules of the employing
agency. ]
SECTION III
COMMERCIAL EMPLOYMENT AFTER RETIREMENT
9.7 If a pensioner who immediately before retirement was
*[holder of a post in BPS-16 or above], wishes to accept any
commercial employment in a Pakistani Firm or Company with
whom he had to deal with in his official capacity during the two
years prior to his retirement or in any other Firm or Company
located in Pakistan or outside before the expiry of two years from
the date of his retirement, he should obtain the previous sanction
of Government to such acceptance. No pension shall be payable
to him if he accepts commercial employment without such
sanction in respect of any period for which he is so employed or
such longer period as Government may direct.
Provided that such a Government servant permitted by
the appropriate authority to take up a particular form of
Commercial employment during his leave preparatory to
retirement, shall not be required to obtain subsequent
permission for his continuance in such employment after
retirement.
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* Substituted for the words “a member of any Provincial Service, Class I or Class II
or was a holder of an unclassified post” vide Notification No. F.D. (SR-III) 4-1/89
dated 1st March 1992
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Note- (1) In this rule `Commercial employment’ means
employment, in any capacity including that of an Agent under a
Company or Firm, and includes also a Directorate of such
Company and a partnership of such Firm.
Note- (2) The term “Firm” in this rule includes an
individual engaged in trading or in a Commercial Industrial,
Agricultural, Financial or Professional business.
SECTION IV
EMPLOYMENT UNDER A GOVERNMENT OUTSIDE
PAKISTAN AFTER RETIREMENT
9.8 If a pensioner who immediately before retirement was
*[holder of a post in BPS-16 or above], wishes to accept any
employment under a Government outside Pakistan he should
obtain the previous sanction of Government to such acceptance.
No pension shall be payable to a pensioner who accepts such
employment without proper permission, in respect of any period
for which he is so employed or such longer period as
Government may direct;
Provided that a Government servant permitted by the
appropriate authority to take up a particular form of employment
under a Government outside Pakistan during leave preparatory
to retirement shall not be required to obtain subsequent
permission for his continuance in such employment after
retirement.
Note – For the purpose of this rule employment under a
Government outside Pakistan shall include employment under a
local authority or corporation or any other institution or
organization which functions under the supervision or control of
a Government outside Pakistan.
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* Substituted for the words “a member of any Provincial Service, Class I or Class-II
or was a holder of unclassified post” vide Notification No. F.D. (SR-III) 4-1/89 dated
1st March 1992
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* [ANNEXURE
(Referred to in Rule 9.6)
No. 14/5/78-D.III
GOVERNMENT OF PAKISTAN
Cabinet Secretariat
(Establishment Division)
Rawalpindi, the 10th February 1980
OFFICE MEMORANDUM
Subject: INDUCTION/RE-EMPLOYMENT OF OFFICERS OF
ARMED
FORCES OF PAKISTAN IN CIVIL POSTS
The undersigned is directed to state that the question of
institutionalizing the induction and re-employment of officers of
the Armed Forces of Pakistan in Civil posts has been under
consideration for some time past. The President has now been
pleased to decide that induction of officers of the Armed Forces
of Pakistan and their re-employment, as the case may be, shall
be regulated by the following instructions.
Part-I
2. Induction of young officers of Armed Forces of Pakistan
up to 8 years commissioned service in civil posts shall be made
in accordance with Part-II.
3. Induction of officers of the rank of major or equivalent
who may retire or may have retired on completion of the
prescribed age or service limit shall be made in accordance with
Part-III.
4. Re-employment of officers of the rank of major or
equivalent who may retire or may have retired before completion
of the prescribed age or service limit and of retired officers of the
rank of Lieutenant Colonel and above equivalent shall be made
in accordance with Part-IV.
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* Added vide Notification No. F.D. (SR-III) 4-1/89 dated 1st March 1992
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Part-II
5. Young officers of the Armed Forces up to 8 years of
commissioned service will be eligible for induction in grade 17 on
regular basis up to 10% of the annual direct recruitment
vacancies in the specified occupational groups direct recruitment
to which is made through the combined competitive examination
held by the F.P.S.C annually.
6. Induction will be made through the high powered
Selection Board constituted by the President for the purpose.
The high powered Selection Board will also determine the
occupational groups to which the officers are allocated. For this
purpose, each service Chief may be asked to recommend by the
30th June every year names of officers for induction in grade 17
in various groups, keeping in view their educational qualifications
and experience. For each vacancy, a panel of preferably 3
officers may be recommended. The recommendations will be
scrutinized by the Ministry of Defence before they are placed
before the Board.
7. Officers inducted in various groups will be adjusted
against vacancies allocated to the Province or Provinces to
which they belong.
8. The officers will be appointed on regular basis and the
probation period shall be deemed to have been waived. On
appointment to the civil post, the officers will sever their
connection with the Armed Forces.
9. The officers will receive the same training as given to the
probationers appointed on the results of the competitive
examination held by the F.P.S.C and will be required to pass
completely the prescribed examination during or on conclusion
of the training. Their promotion to the higher grade will be
governed by normal rules, and will be subject to the further
condition that they have completely passed the prescribed
examinations during or on conclusion of the training.
10. The inducted officers will count their seniority from the
year in which they are inducted, recruits of the same year
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retaining their seniority inter se. They will be placed above the
competitioners of the year with whom they receive the training.
11. (a) The pay of the inducted officers in civil grade will
be fixed on the basis of their pay in the substantive rank or
temporary rank, if held for one year.
(b) Service rendered in Armed Forces will count
towards civil pension.
Part-III
12. The officers of the rank of a Major and equivalent who
may retire or may have retired on completion of the prescribed
age or service limit will be eligible for induction in grade 18 on
regular basis up to 10% of the annual vacancies in the various
groups and cadres in that grade, as may be specified.
13. Induction will be made through the high powered
Selection Board in accordance with the procedure laid down in
para 6.
14. In selecting officers for induction, provincial quotas will
be kept in view.
15. The inducted officers will count seniority in the grade in
which they are inducted from the date of their induction.
16. The pay of inducted officers will be fixed in the civil grade
on the basis of their pay of the substantive rank or temporary
rank, if held for one year.
17. The inducted officers will continue to draw their military
pension. It shall be deducted from the civil pay. In addition to the
military pension, the officers will be entitled to a civil pension on
their retirement from civil employment if they have completed the
prescribed qualifying service (i.e. 10 years of minimum service).
They will be entitled to receive gratuity if they have rendered
more than 5 years and less than 10 years of service in the civil
post.
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Part-IV
18. Officers of the rank of Major/equivalent who retire or may
have retired before completion of the prescribed age or service
limit and officers of the rank of Lieutenant Colonel and above
and equivalent who may retire or may have retired either after
completion of prescribed service or age limit or before such
completion will be eligible for re-employment on contract for 3 to
5 years, renewable up to the age of 60, up to the maximum of
10% of annual vacancies in various groups and cadres, as may
be specified, on the terms and conditions mentioned hereinafter.
19. Re-employment will be made in grade equivalent to their
substantive rank, or temporary rank, if held for one year, in
accordance with the Army rank-civil grade equivalence formula
already approved by the president. However, the officers will be
eligible for being considered for a subsequent contract in higher
grade.
20. Re-employment on contract basis will be made through
the high Powered Selection Board which will also determine the
group or cadre in which re-employment is to be made. The
procedure for selection will be the same as prescribed in para 6.
21. In selection officers for re-employment provincial quotas
will be kept in view.
22. Re-employment on contract in various grades shall be
made by the authorities competent to make appointment to
these grades in accordance with rule 6 of the Civil Servants
(Appointment, Promotion and Transfer) Rules, 1973.
23. The re-employed officers will be eligible for such training
as is given to their civilian counterparts.
24. Re-employed officers will not have any seniority and will
not be placed on the regular gradation list.
25. Pay of the re-employed officers of Armed Forces who
retired on completion of the prescribed age or service limit and
who are re-employed in civil posts on contract basis in grades
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equal to the substantive rank or temporary rank, if held for one
year, may be fixed at the minimum of the grade in which reemployment
is made and full service pension should be paid in
addition. Pay of the re-employed officers who retired before
completion of the prescribed age or service limit and who are reemployed
on contract basis will be fixed under the normal rules
issued by the Ministry of Finance from time to time for fixation of
pay of retired Government Servants including retired military
personnel re-employed under the Government of Pakistan and in
autonomous bodies. In both the cases, service rendered on civil
side shall not qualify for a second pension.
26. The Armed Forces officers Re-employed on contract
shall be liable to serve anywhere within or outside Pakistan, in
any post under the Federal Government or Provincial
Government or local authorities or a corporation or body set up
or established by such Government provided that nothing
contained in this paragraph shall apply to an officer re-employed
specifically to serve in a particular area or region an further
provided that where such an officer is required to serve in a post
other than the post in which he has been re-employed, his terms
and conditions of service as to his pay shall not be less
favourable than those to which he would have been entitled if he
had not been so required to serve.
27. Termination of contract either on expiry or otherwise will
be done through the high Powered Selection Board. For this
purpose, the Ministry, Division, Department or office concerned
will make a reference to the High Powered Selection Board
through the Establishment Division sufficiently in advance or the
date on which the contract period is due to expire or proposed to
be terminated. The High Powered Selection Board shall consider
whether the contract shall be extended or terminated, as the
case may be. The recommendations of the Board will be
submitted to the authority competent to re-employ the officer on
contract which shall pass such orders as it may deem
appropriate.
28. In case no orders are received by the date on which
contractual period is due to expire, the contract shall be deemed
to have been extended until further orders.
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29. The conduct of re-employed contract officers shall be
regulated by rules made, or deemed to have been made, or
instructions issued, by Government or a prescribed authority as
for civil servants under Section 15 of the Civil Servants Act.
30 A re-employed contract officer shall be liable to
disciplinary action and penalties in accordance with the rules
made or deemed to have been made under Section 16 of the
Civil Servants Act, 1973.
31. The Armed Forces officer re-employed on contract shall
be governed by the leave rules contained in the Finance Division
O.M.No.2-1(2)-Rev.1/78, dated the 21st September, 1978.
However, provisions contained in paras 3(ii) and (iii), 5, 6, 10, 11
and 17 shall not apply.
32. The leave at the credit of an officer shall be carried
forward in case a contract is extended without any interruption.
However, all leaves at the credit of an officer shall lapse on the
date of final expiry or termination of the contract.
33. The officer will be entitled to T.A. on tour and transfer
and to medical attendance and treatment on the scale applicable
to civil servants of corresponding grade.
34. Where a right to prefer an appeal or apply for review in
respect of any order relating to the terms and conditions of his
service is provided to an officer of Armed Forces re-employed on
contract under any rules made applicable to him, such appeal or
application shall, except as may be otherwise prescribed, be
made within thirty days of the date of such order.
35. Where no provision for appeal or review exists under the
rules in respect of any order or class of orders, a re-employed
officer aggrieved by any such order may, within thirty days of the
communication to him of such order, make a representation
against it to the authority next above the authority which made
the order.
36. The existing officers of the category mentioned in this
part who have already been appointed on contract in civil posts
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shall be eligible to elect terms an conditions specified in this part.
They shall be required to give their option either to elect their
existing conditions of appointment or to elect the terms and
condition laid down in this part for the remaining period of their
contract. The option shall be given within two months of the date
of issue of this O.M. They will be brought on the terms and
conditions laid down in this part with effect from 23rd December,
1979, the date on which the president was pleased to approve
the scheme. Those who fail to submit their option by the
prescribed date shall be deemed to have selected their existing
terms and conditions. Option shall be final.
PART V
37. Any major difficulties in implementing these decisions will
be resolved by reference to a committee comprising
Establishment Secretary, Finance Secretary and Law Secretary.
The reference will be made through the Establishment Division
who will initially examine it and in case they are unable to
remove the difficulty, the matter will be placed before the
Committee.
38. This Office Memorandum issues with the concurrence of
the Ministry of Finance.
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GOVERNMENT OF PAKISTAN
Cabinet Secretariat
Establishment Division
No.14/5/78-D.III. Rawalpindi the 11th February 1980
OFFICE MEMORANDUM
Subject: INDUCTION/RE-EMPLOYMENT OF OFFICERS OF
ARMED FORCES OF PAKISTAN IN
AUTONOMOUS BODIES UNDER FEDERAL
GVERNMENT
The undersigned is directed to state that the question of
institutionalizing the induction and re-employment of officers of
Armed Forces of Pakistan in civil posts had been under
consideration for some time past. The President has now been
pleased to decide that induction of officers of the Armed forces
of Pakistan and their re-employment, as the case may be, shall
be regulated by the instructions as are laid down in the
Establishment Division O.M.No. 14/5/78-D-III dated 10.02.1980
a copy of which is enclosed. The President has also been
pleased to decide that these instructions will also apply, mutatis
mutandis in the corporations and other autonomous bodies set
up by the Federal Government or working under their
administrative control.
2. All Ministries/Divisions are requested to advise the
corporations and other autonomous bodies under their
administrative control to draw instructions for induction or reemployment
of officers of Armed Forces of Pakistan in various
posts in the corporations on the lines of the instructions
contained in the enclosed office memorandum and issue them
with the approval of the competent authority.
3. A compliance report may be sent to the Establishment
Division in respect of the corporations and other autonomous
bodies under the administrative control of the Ministry concerned
so as to reach the establishment Division by the 31st March,
1980.
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CHAPTER X
EXTRAORDINARY PENSION
10.1 (a) The rules of this chapter apply to all persons in civil
employ of the Provincial Government (including Government
servants serving in a civil or military capacity with a Military,
Naval or Air Force), whether their employment is permanent,
temporary or casual and whether remunerated by fixed pay or by
piecework rates; provided that in case of a person to whom the
Workman’s Compensation Act 1923, applies –
(1) an award shall be paid under the provisions of this
chapter only if the authority competent to sanction it considers
that the compensation payable under the Act is in the particular
case inadequate; and
(2) the amount of award paid to any such person shall
not exceed the difference between the amount otherwise
admissible under the rules of this chapter and the amount of
compensation payable under the Act.
(b) Pay for the purpose of this chapter means the pay
which a person was drawing (or in case he was serving in a
military capacity with a military force, the pay which he would
have drawn if he remained in civil employ), on the date of his
death or injury, provided that in the case of a pension
remunerated by piece work-rates, pay means the average
earning of the last six months ending with the date of his death
or injury.
10.2 The extraordinary pension may be granted to a
Government servant even if he is not invalided from service as a
result of the disability on account of which the award is made.
The grant of extraordinary pension to a Government servant is
no bar to the grant of any ordinary civil pension or gratuity for
which he may be eligible under the rules.
10.3 Every grant of extraordinary pension under this Chapter
is subject to the provision of rule 1.8.
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10.4 In case where considerable delay has occurred in
applying for an extraordinary pension, the grant, if any, will take
effect only from the date of the report by the Medical Board, or,
in the case of family pension from such date as the sanctioning
authority may decide. Otherwise the grant may be made with
effect from the date of wound, injury or death. The family
pension granted to a posthumous child should commence from
the date of his/her birth.
10.5 No extraordinary pension shall be sanctioned by a
competent authority except with the prior concurrence of Finance
Department;
Provided that, notwithstanding anything contained in
these rules, the Inspector General of Police may, without the
prior concurrence of the Finance Department sanction
extraordinary pension in case of any member of the Police Force
who is killed in action on duty.
10.6 An *injury/disability] pension to a Government servant, or
in case of his death, a family pension may be sanctioned under
any of the following conditions on the merits of each case **to
half the amount of pay or Rs.500 per mensem, whichever is less,
subject to the minimum of Rs.100 per mensem or the amount of
pay, which ever is less –
A Government servant, who receives injury (including
wound) or is killed –
(i) while serving in a civil capacity with a Military,
Naval or Air Force,
(ii) while serving in a military capacity with a Military,
Naval or Air Force,
(iii) while performing any particular duty which has the
effect of increasing his liability to injury beyond the
ordinary risk of the post which he holds.
___________________________________________________
*Substituted for the word “injury” vide Notification No. F.D. (SR-III) 4-1/89 dated 1st
March 1992
** Deleted vide Notification No. F.D. (SR-III) 4-1/89 dated 1st March 1992
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*[10.6-A. (a) Disability pension and gratuity shall be allowed at
the following scale:
CHILDREN’S PENSION
Class of
injury Pension Gratuity
Child without
own mother
Child with
own mother
leavng
A
B
C
20% of pay
subject to a
maximum of
Rs. 600 and
a minimum of
Rs. 100 P.M.
(Note—After
death it will
devolve on
the widow).
15% of pay
subject to a
maximum of
Rs. 450 and
a minimum of
Rs. 75 P.M.
15% of pay
subject to a
maximum of
Rs. 450 and
a minimum of
Rs. 75 P.M.
6 months
pay
Nil
Nil
5% of pay,
subject to a
maximum of Rs.
100 and a
minimum of Rs.
50 per child.
4% of pay
subject to a
maximum of Rs.
80 and
minimum of Rs.
40 per child.
Nil
2.5% of pay
subject to a
maximum of
Rs. 50 and
a minimum
of Rs. 25
per child.
2% of pay
subject to a
maximum of
Rs. 50 and
a minimum
of Rs. 25
per child.
Nil
(b) The classification of disability and the criteria for determining
whether these were attributable to service have been detailed in
the Annexure to this chapter.]
10.7 For extraordinary family pension, the provisions of
ordinary family pension shall be applicable to the extent that they
are not inconsistent with rules in this Chapter.
____________________________________________
* Added vide Notification No. F.D. (SR-III) 4-1/89 dated 1st March 1992
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10.8 (a) When a claim for any injury pension or family
pension arises, the Head of the Department/Attached
Department/Office in which the injured or deceased Government
servant was employed shall forward the claim through the usual
channel to the Finance Department with the following
documents:
(1) A full statement of circumstances in which the
injury was received, the disease was contracted or the death
occurred.
(2) The application for injury pension in Form 9(Pen.)
or the application for family pension in Form 10 (Pen.).
(3) In the case of an injured Government Servant or
one who has contracted a disease a medical report in Form 11
(Pen.). In the case of a deceased Government Servant, a
medical report as to the death or reliable evidence as to the
actual occurrence of death, if the Government servant lost his
life in such circumstances that a medical report cannot be
secured.
(b) When extraordinary pension is sanctioned without
the prior concurrence of the Finance Department under the
proviso to rule 10.5, the documents referred to in sub-rule (a)
shall be forwarded to the Finance Department along with the
particulars of the pension so sanctioned.
10.9 In making an award under this Chapter, the competent
authority may take into consideration, the degree of default or
contributory negligence on the part of the Government servant
who sustains an injury or dies as a result of an injury or is killed.
10.10 All awards under this Chapter shall be made in Pakistan
Rupees.
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* [ANNEXURE
PART-I
CLASSIFICATION OF DISABILITY
CLASS ‘A’
1. Death /loss of life
2. Loss of a hand and a foot or loss of use of two or more limbs.
3. Total loss of eye-sight.
4. Total loss of speech.
5. Total deafness both ears.
6. Paraplegia or hemiplegia.
7. Lunacy.
8. Very severe facial disfigurement.
9. Advanced cases of incurable disease.
10.Wounds, injuries or diseases resulting in a disability due to
which a person becomes incapacitated.
11. Emasculation.
Note– Wounds, injuries or disease of limb resulting in
damage of nerves, joints, or muscles making the whole of limb
useless would mean loss of that limb. Cases in which a partial
function is retained will not be included in this class. However, if
the partial retention of function does not help in walking in case
of leg or does not help in holding an object even with partial
efficiency, it should be considered as total loss of function.
Those cases will also be included in this class where the earning
capacity of the Government servant has been totally impaired
due to the invaliding disability.
CLASS ‘B’
1. Loss of a thumb or at least three fingers of hand.
2. Partial loss of one or both feet at or beyond tarsometatarsal
joint.
3. Loss of vision of one eye.
___________________________________________
*Added vide Notification No. F.D. (SR-III) 4-1/89 dated 1st March 1992
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CLASS ‘C’
1. Limited restriction of movement of joint due to injuries.
2. Disease of a limb restricting performance of duties.
General Note– When the wound, injury or illness causing
the disability is not entered in the above Schedule, the disability
shall be assessed by the medical board at the classification most
closely corresponding to those given above.
PART-II
PRINCIPLES AND PROCEDURE FOR DETERMINING
ATTRIBUTABILITY TO SERVICE OF DISABILITY
(A) Casualties due to wound or injury–
(1) It should be established in such cases that the cause of
casualty was the result of duty in service.
(2) where the injury resulted from the risk inherent in service
attributability will be conceded.
(3) An individual will be deemed to be in the performance of
duty when-
(i) he is physically present in his headquarters;
(ii) he is traveling on leave at Government expense;
(iii) when traveling to or from duty (e.g. from residence
to place of duty and back but not whilst he is in his
residence);
(iv) whilst traveling on duty, i.e. where it is established
that but for the duty he would not have been
Traveling at all.
(4) Disability resulting from purely personal act, such as
shaving or similar private pursuits would not normally be
treated as attributable to service.
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(5) Disability resulting from violence provoked by performing
of duty will be viewed as attributable to service unless
the circumstances of the case warrant a different
conclusion.
(6) If circumstances are such that service played no part in
the causation of disability, attributability will not be
conceded.
Illustration– If a person driving a motor cycle etc., on duty,
collides with a truck the injury received may be attributed
to service but if he is out for a walk and sustains injury
from a passing truck, his case will not qualify for the
concession.
(B) Casualties due to disease—
(a) The cause of disability resulting from a disease will be
regarded as attributable to service only when it is directly
due to risks which may be regarded as peculiar to the
circumstances of duty in service. In determining
attributability in such cases due regard should be paid to
the question whether service in a particular region, or of
a particular type, involved exposure to exceptional risk of
contraction of, or infection by, a disease, as well as to
the actual circumstances of the case.
(b) Attributability will not be conceded if, though contracted
during the period of actual performance of duty, the
disease is, in the opinion of the medical authorities
concerned, due to risks which cannot be regarded as
peculiar to such duty in service.
(c) Where a disease or its aggravation resulted from the risk
of duty, attributability/aggravation will be conceded.
(d) All cases of tuberculosis and bronchial asthma will be
accepted as attributable to or aggravated by service
where the medical opinion is in favour of the acceptance.
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(e) Attributability/aggravation in all cases of cardiac disease
will be determined in accordance with the guidelines
mentioned at the end of this part.
(f) Where medical or other supporting documents are
incomplete, cases will be dealt with on merits with due
regard to medical opinion and other evidence.
Guidelines for determining attributability/
aggravation in cases of cardiac disease
1. There are many pre-disposing factors which may
precipitate an attack of coronary occlusion. No single factor can
be pin-pointed as being responsible for such an attack. It is,
therefore, not easy to lay any hard and fast rule for awarding
attributability/aggravation in such cases. For the guidance of
medical and administrative authorities some of the facts which
may precipitate the attack of heart disease are enumerated
below:
(a) Physical Exertion—coronary occlusion is known to have
precipitated during or immediately following physical exertion,
physical exertion may not necessarily be of an unusual character
i.e. lifting of a heavy trunk/bundle, pushing a stalled vehicle or an
up-hill climbing have in many instances been followed by an
attack of coronary occlusion. The effects of exertion are worse if
the individual is unduly fatigued, has lack of sleep or is under
emotional stress. Attributability will be conceded if a person
undergoing stress and strain, pressure and counter pressure by
virtue of the nature of his duties develops psychiatric problem.
(b) Emotional Strain—The occurrence of coronary disease
in persons who had been under an unusually severe and
protracted emotional strain points to a probable relationship
between the two. Separation from families, uncongenial
atmosphere, frequent moves, all add to mental strain and
psychological trauma.
(2) The question of attributability/aggravation of heart
disease on occurrence in otherwise a normal individual who is
subject to the above mentioned factors will, therefore, have to be
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considered and decided in the light of known history and merits
of each case.
(3) While dealing with such cases due precaution will be
exercised by all concerned to carefully bring out detailed merits
of the case as award of attributability/aggravation depends on
their candid opinion.]
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FORM I (PEN)
{Referred to in Rule 4.7(6)}
NOMINATION FOR GRATUITY
When the Government Servant has family and wishes to
nominate one member thereof:
I hereby nominate the person mentioned below, who is a
member of my family, and confer on him the right to receive any
gratuity that may be sanctioned by the Government in the event
of my death while in service, and the right to receive on my
death any gratuity which having been admissible to me on
retirement may remain unpaid at my death —
Name
and
addres
s of
nomine
e
Relationshi
p with
Governme
nt servant
Age Contingencie
s on the
happening of
which the
nomination
shall
become
invalid
Name and
relationship of the
person if any, to
whom the right
conferred on the
nominee shall
pass in the event
of the nominee
predeceasing the
Government
servant
1 2 3 4 5
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Dated this day of __200 at
Witnesses to signature
1.
2.
Signature of the Government Servant
To be filled in by the Head of Office in case of a Non-Gazetted
Government Servant
Nomination by Signature of Head of Office
Designation Date
Office Designation
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FORM 2 (PEN)
{Referred to in Rule 4.7 (6)}
NOMINATION FOR GRATUITY
When the Government Servant has family and wishes to
nominate more than one member thereof
I, hereby nominate the persons mentioned below, who are
members of my family, and confer on them the right to receive to
the extent specified below, any gratuity that may be sanctioned
by the Government in the event of my death while in service, and
the right to receive on my death to the extent specified below,
any gratuity which having become admissible to me on
retirement may remain unpaid at my death –
Name
and
addre
ss of
nomin
ee
Relatio
nship
with
Govern
ment
servant
Ag
e
Amo
unt
or
shar
e of
gratu
ity
paya
ble
to
each
Contingencie
s on the
happening of
which the
nomination
shall become
invalid
Name and
relationship of the
person if any, to
whom the right
conferred on the
nominee shall pass
in the event of the
nominee
predeceasing the
Government
servant
1 2 3 4 5 6
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N.B.- The Government servant should draw lines across
the blank space below the last entry to prevent the insertion of
any name after he has signed.
Dated this day of 19 at
Witnesses to Signature
1.
2.
Signature of Government servant
Note – This column should be filled in so as to cover the whole
amount of gratuity.
________________________________________________
To be filled in by the Head of Office in the case of a non-
Gazetted Government servant.
Nomination by Signature of Head of Office
Designation Date
Office Designation
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**PENSION PAPERS
OF
Mr.
POSTAL ADDRESS:
INSTRUCTIONS
1. The head of the Department or Office responsible for
initiating the case should start filling in sections (2) to (5) of Part
II of the working copy of the Form one year before the expected
date of retirement. In case of death of a Government servant,
while in service, the Head of Department/Office should get the
papers completed instead of waiting for the submission of claim
by family members.
2. Six months before the date of retirement, the pensioner
should be asked to fill in and sign Part I in a fresh copy of the
form and submit it along with the required enclosures mentioned
in the last paragraph of the application for pension.
3. Part-I of the working copy will then be filled in by copying
from Part-I of the signed copy received back from the applicant.
Similarly, sections (2) to (5), Part-II of the signed copy will be
filled in by copying from Part-II of the working copy. Section (I) of
Part II of both the forms should then be filled in.
4. The signed copy should be forwarded to the sanctioning
authority after filling in and signing section (6), while the working
copy will be retained in the initiating office as an office copy. If
any extra enclosures, such as list of family members, Death
Certificate, Invalid Certificate, etc., are required by the special
nature of a case, these should be attached with the form sent to
the Audit Office.
______________________________________________________________
** Substituted vide Notification No. F.D. (SR-III) 4-1/89 dated 1st March 1992
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5. The sanctioning authority should fill in section (7) of the
form and send it to the Audit Office, along with forwarding letter.
6. The Audit Officer after scrutinizing Parts-I and II and
arriving at his own findings about the correct length of qualifying
service and amounts of Pension and Gratuity admissible, copy
the gist of his findings from his working papers into Part-III. The
form will then be filled as a record of the Audit Office.
7. Before filling in the form please read Chapter-V of the
Punjab Civil Services Pension Rules.
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FIRST PAGE
FORM 3(PEN)
PART I
(To be filled in and signed by the applicant himself)
APPLICATION FOR PENSION AND COMMUTATION
To
The
Sir,
I have the honour to say that I *have retired/*have been
permitted to retire/*am due to retire from Government service
with effect from (Date). I, therefore, request that the
pension admissible under the rules may kindly be sanctioned to
me.
2. I declare that I have neither applied for nor received any
pension or gratuity for any portion of this service, nor shall I
submit any application hereafter without quoting a reference to
this application and to the orders which may be passed thereon.
3. Should the amount of the pension and/or gratuity
granted to me be afterwards found to be in excess of that to
which I am entitled under the rules, I hereby undertake to refund
any such excess.
4. I wish to commute my pension to the extent of Rs. out
of my full pension.
5. I wish to draw my pension from the District Accounts
Office/Treasury/ Sub-Treasury at (place).
6. The following documents, duly attested, are enclosed:
(i) There specimen signatures of mine.
(ii) Three photographs of mine.
___________________
*Delete inapplicable alternative.
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*(iii) Two sets of my thumb and finger impressions.
(iv) Attested copy of my National Identity Card.
(v) Photo copy of the Computer slip (in case of
computerized pay roll only)
Your obedient servant
(Signature with date)_____________________
(S/o) _________________________________
Post held at the time of retirement
___________
Postal address_________________________
_________________________________________________
*Not required in the case of Government servants retiring from posts in BS-16 and
above.
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FIRST PAGE (CONTINUED)
APPLICATION FOR FAMILY PENSION
To
The ____________________________
____________________________
____________________________
Dear Sir,
I have the honour to say that my
husband/wife/*_____________________ex in the office
of has expired on (date)_________________. I, therefore,
request that the family pension admissible under the rules may
kindly be sanctioned to me.
2. I declare that I have neither applied for nor received any
family pension.
3. Should the amount of the family pension granted to me
be afterwards found to be in excess of that to which I am entitled
under the rules, I hereby undertake to refund any such excess.
4. I wish to draw my pension from District Accounts
Office Government Treasury/Sub-Try
at (place)
5. The following documents, duly attested, are enclosed:
(i) Three specimen signatures of mine duly attested
/two sets of my thumb and finger impressions on
the prescribed form.
(ii) Three photographs of mine@.
(iii) List and particulars of family members.
(iv) Descriptive Roll.
(v) Death Certificate.(From Hospital /Local Council
Authorities).
* Indicate relationship with the deceased Government servant.
@ Not applicable in the case of purdah-observing lady.
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(vi) Non -remarriage and non separation certificates.
(vii) Attested photo copy of the National Identity Card.
Yours faithfully,
Signature___________________________________
Widow/Husband/entitled member of the family______________
Postal Address_________________________________
Date__________________
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SECOND PAGE
PART II
(To be completed by Office/Department)
SECTION (1) PARTICULARS OF APPLICANT
1. Name of applicant __________________________
2. Father’s name __________________________
3. Nationality __________________________
4. Postal address __________________________
5. Post held on the date of retirement and BPS_________
6. Date of birth of the applicant____________________
(Commencement of service
7. Date of (Retirement
(Application for pension
7-A Computer Personnel No.____________________________
8. Length of service, including interruptions–
Y. M. D.
From to i.e.
From to i.e.
9. Date of commencement and ending of each spell of military
service, if any —
Y. M. D.
From to i.e.
From to i.e.
____________________
Total
____________________
10. Governments under which service has been rendered in
chronological order —
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Y. M. D.
Government of __________From to i.e.
Government of __________From to i.e.
Government of __________From to i.e.
__________________
Total __________________
11. Class of pension or gratuity applied for
12. Average emoluments/last pay drawn of post held
on regular basis
13. Proposed full pension/gratuity
14. Proposed family pension
15. Proposed value of commutation
16. Proposed net pension.
17. Place of payment (Government Treasury or Sub-
Treasury)/District Accounts Office
18. Date from which pension is to commence
Office
Signature of Head of
Official seal Department
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THIRD PAGE
Section (2) Calculation of Qualifying Service
Y. M. D.
Total length of service, as per Col. 10 of Section (1)
Less–
(i) Extraordinary leave.
(ii) Suspension not treated as duty or as leave.
(iii) Service rendered before break, if break is not condoned.
(iv) Service forfeited by resignation.
(v) Unauthorized absence.
__________________
Total __________________
Net qualifying service________________________________
Add–
(i) Periods, if any, of Military Service or War Service
allowed to count for pension.
(ii) Benefit of condonation of deficiency in service.
(iii) Any other addition to qualifying service.
__________________
Total __________________
Total qualifying service __________________________
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SECTION (3).-CALCULATION OF
AVERAGE EMOLUMENTS
UNDER PARA 3(a)/(b) of L.P.R. 1977
STATEMENT OF EMOLUMENTS DURING THE LAST 36/12
MONTHS
Period Duration
Month &
Days
Monthly rate
of
emoluments
Amount drawn
From To M D Rs. Ps Rs. Ps.
The Total emoluments for 36/12 months are;
Therefore “Average Emoluments”, work out to
Rs. 36/12=Rs. P.M
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FOURTH PAGE
SECTION (4)-CALCULATION OF PENSION
Length of total qualifying service …………..years
Emoluments/Average Emoluments/Last Pay
drawn of the post held on regular basis.
Rs………………….
Amount of gratuity
(in case where qualifying
service is 5 years or more
but less than 10 years). Rs………………….
Amount of gratuity on
discharge from temporary
service where qualifying
service is 10 years or more
but less that 25 years. Rs………………….
Full pension calculated up to
30 years qualifying service Rs…………………
Benefit to the extent of
2% of full pension for each
extra year of service beyond
30 years subject to a maximum
of 10% of the full pension. Rs…………………
Total Rs………………….
Commutation Rs………………….
Net Pension Rs………………….
SECTION (5)-COMMUTED VALUE OF PENSION
(i) Amount of pension
to be commuted Rs………………….
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(ii) Age next birthday ……………….years
or 60 in case of
Superannuation
(iii) Rate of commuted Rs………………….
value for every one rupee.
(iv) Commuted value of Rs………………….
pension.
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FIFTH PAGE
SECTION (6) — REMARKS BY HEAD OF
OFFICE/DEPARTMENT
1. Remarks regarding any gratuity or pension received by
the applicant (see Chapter IX of Punjab Civil Services
Pension Rules).
2. Any other remarks.
Signature of the
Head of the Department/Office
SECTION (7) — ORDER OF THE SANCTIONING AUTHORITY
1. Sanction is hereby accorded to the grant of pension
and/or commuted value of pension/gratuity as calculated
in sections (4) and (5).
2. has not been sanctioned anticipatory
pension.
The anticipatory pension/gratuity of Rs.
sanctioned, vide No. dated may be
adjusted while making payment on the final PPO (score
out which is not applicable).
3. The payment of pension and/or gratuity may commence
from . Before issuing the pension payment order,
the Audit Officer may kindly ascertain whether the Last
Pay and No Demand Certificates have been received by
him. In case No Demand Certificate has not been
received, the Government servant, or his family in the
event of his death, may be requested to give his/its
consent in writing to any amount outstanding against him
on the date of retirement/death being recovered from the
pension and/or gratuity in lump sum or in monthly
installments.
Signature
Designation
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SIXTH PAGE
PART III
(FOR USE IN THE ACCOUNTANT GENERAL’S OFFICE)
I. The calculations contained in the preceding pages have
been checked.
II. Length of qualifying service accepted
in Audit Year
III. Reasons for difference, if any, between this and the
length of qualifying service worked out by the
Department.
IV. Amount of pension. Rs……………..
V. Reasons for discrepancy,
if any, between this amount
and that calculated by the Department.
VI. Amount of family pension. Rs……………..
VII. Reasons for discrepancy,
if any, between this amount
and that calculated by the Department
VIII. Amount of commutation for
the pension commuted. Rs……………..
IX. Reasons for discrepancy,
if any, between this amount
and that calculated by the Department
X. Amount of net pension payable Rs……………..
XI. The pension will
commence from ……………….
XII. Allocation of the pension/gratuity and commutation.
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Pension Gratuity
Government of
Government of
Government of
Defence Estimates
__________________
Total
__________________
XIII. Anticipatory pension of Rs.
(Rupees )
per month, granted with effect from
vide P.P.O. No. under rule
to be adjusted in the final P.P.O.
XIV. Amount of original pension
commuted. Rs…………..
XV. Checked with the L.P.C.
and ‘No Demand Certificate’
XIV. P.P.O. issued, vide No. dated
Assistant Accountant General
Assistant Accounts Officer
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* FORM 4 (PEN)
* Deleted vide Notification No. F.D. (SR-III) 4-1/89 dated 1st March 1992
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* FORM 5 (PEN)
(Referred to in Rule 6.4)
** From
To
The Accountant General, Punjab, Lahore/
District Accounts Officer,
Subject: GRANT OF ANTICIPATORY PENSION TO
Sir,
***Mr. is due to retire/ has retired from
Government service with effect from .The
finalization of his pension case is likely to take some time. To
avoid unnecessary hardship he is granted an anticipatory
pension/gratuity, with effect from as follows:
(1) Anticipatory Pension Rs. (in
words and figures per mensum).
(2) Gratuity Rs. (in words and figures
per mensum for six months).
Necessary declaration duly signed by him is enclosed. The
District Accounts Officer/Treasury Officer is being requested for
disbursement of the anticipatory pension/gratuity from the
Government Treasury/Sub-Treasury at .
____________________________________________________________
* Substituted vide Notification No. F.D. (SR-III) 4-1/89 dated 1st March 1992
** Here insert the name of the authority competent to sanction the pension.
*** Give the name and designation of the retiring Government Servant.
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2. His anticipatory pension/gratuity has been sanctioned
after careful summary investigation on the basis:
1) Name of the Government servant.
2) Father’s Name.
3) Postal address.
4) Post held at the time of retirement and BPS.
5) Date of birth.
6) Date of first recruitment in Government service.
7) Date of beginning of continuous qualifying service
(including temporary service over five years without
break or temporary and officiating service followed
by confirmation).
8) Date of ending of service.
9) The period of service that ordinarily does not count
for pension:-
i) the period of service paid from contingencies;
ii) extraordinary leave; or
iii) period of training before actual appointment to
Government service.
10) The length of qualifying service (after deduction of the
period mentioned in (9) above).
11) Class of pension or gratuity (whether compensation;
invalid; superannuation or retiring).
12) Average emoluments or last pay drawn of the post held
on regular basis.
13) (i) (a) Whether his service was more
than 5 years and less than 10 years, if
so–
(b) gratuity admissible to him.
(ii) If his qualifying service is ten years or more and he
did not die before retirement, the amount of full
pension.
3. The pension/gratuity is chargeable to the Punjab
Government provision ally and will commence
(the date of the retirement of the government servant or the day
following his death if he died before retirement).
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4. This letter will constitute an authority to claim
anticipatory pension/ gratuity till the finalization of pension case
of the Government servant.
5. A copy of the declaration signed by the retiring
Government servant is attached.
Your obedient servant
Form attached
Authority competent to sanction
the pension
No. dated
A copy forwarded to*
for information.
Authority competent to
sanction the pension
No. dated
A copy is forwarded to the District Accounts Officer/Treasury
Officer **
for necessary action.
2. Pension payment order No.
in favour of for Rs. per
mensum is attached. I am to request that the pensioner’s half of
the order may be made over to him after obtaining his signatures
on the disburser’s half after you have satisfied yourself of his
identity and payments noted on both halves as they are made.
The slip bearing the left hand thumb and finger
impressions***passport size photograph and specimen
signatures of the pensioner are also enclosed.
Authority competent to
sanction the pension
___________________________________________________
* Here insert the name and full address of the Government servant.
** Here insert the name of Treasury.
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***In the case of literate ladies and gazetted Government servants thumb or finger
impressions are not required.
DECLARATION
Whereas * has consented provisionally to
pay me the sum of Rs. (in words and figures) a
month as anticipatory pension or Rs. (in words
and figures) a month as gratuity equal one-sixth of 3/4th of the
gratuity admissible and Rs. as commuted value of
anticipatory pension, in anticipation of the completion of the
enquiries necessary to enable the Government to fix the amount
of my pension/gratuity, I hereby acknowledge that my
pension/gratuity/commuted value of pension is subject to
revision on the completion of the necessary formal enquiries,
and I promise to have no objection to such revision on the
ground that the provisional pension/ gratuity/commuted value of
pension now to be paid to me exceeds the pension/gratuity
which I may be eventually found entitled to. I further promise to
repay any amount advanced to me in excess of the
pension/gratuity/commuted value of pension to which I may be
eventually found entitled.
Signatures of the Government servant
with full address and date
Witness with full address:
1
2
________________________________________________
· Here state the designation of the authority sanctioning the
anticipatory pension.
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ANTICIPATORY PENSION/GRATUITY PAYMENT
ORDER PENSISONER’S PORTION
CLASSIFICATION
Major 000 General Major Object 600 Transfer Payments.
Function Administration
Minor 020 Fiscal Minor Object 660 Superannuation
Function Administration Allowances and
Pension.
Detailed 028 Superannuation Detailed 661 Superannuation
Function and Pension Object Retiring and
Compensatory
Pension.
Debitable to
Government
Place for signature of Pensioner’s as the first payment is made
.
Class
of
pension
and
date of
order
sanctio
ning
Perso
nal
identif
ication
Height Date
or
appr
oximate
date
of
birth
Se
ct
Permane
nt
residenc
e
showing
village,
tehsil
and ID
No.
Amou
nt of
month
ly
pensio
n
M C
M
R
s.
P
s.
OFFICE OF THE
NO. The 200
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Until further notice, and on the expiration of every month
please pay to
Mr. son/daughter of the sum of rupees
(less income tax), being the amount of
pension, as BPS No. upon the
production of this Order and a receipt in the usual form. The
payment should commence from .
2. As the late died in service, a gratuity of
Rs. Rupees in lieu of his 1/4th
pension of Rs. is also payable. The gratuity is
debitable to the Head:
Major Object 600 Transfer Payments.
Minor Object 660 Superannuation Allowances and
Pension.
Detailed Object 663 Gratuity Value of Pension.
3. A sum of Rs. Rupees
on account of commuted value of pension is also
payable and debitable to the Head:-
Major Object 600 Transfer Payments.
Minor Object 660 Superannuation Allowances and
Pension.
Detailed Object 662 Gratuity Value of Pension.
4. As the service of was less than 10 years
was not employed in a substantive capacity and his
service was less than 25 years; only a gratuity of Rs.
is admissible to him. An amount of Rs.
being one-sixth of 3/4th of the gratuity may be paid
to him monthly for a period of six-month.
(Signature)
(Designation)
To
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The Treasury Officer/
District Accounts Officer,
NOTE (1) Payment under this order is to be made only to the
pensioner in person, with the following exceptions.
(a) To persons specially exempted by Government.
(b) To females unaccustomed to appear in public and
to persons unable to appear on account of illness
or bodily informity, (Payment in both classes (a)
and (b) is made on production of a Life Certificate
signed by a responsible officer of Government, or
other well-known and trustworthy person).
(c) To any person sending a Life Certificate signed by
some person exercising the powers of a Magistrate
of any class under the Criminal Procedure Code, or
by any Registrar or Sub-Registrar under the
Registration Act, or by any pensioned officer who
before retirement exercised the powers of a
Magistrate or any Gazetted Officer of Government
or by any person holding a Government title.
(d) In all cases referred to in clauses (a), (b) and (c)
the Disbursing Officer must at least once a year,
require proof, independent of that furnished by the
Life Certificate, of the continued existence of the
pensioner.
(2) Strikeout the paragraph(s) not applicable.
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REVERSE OF DISBURSER’S PORTION
Amount of pension Rs. (in words
).
A gratuity of Rs. (Rupees
) paid vide Treasury Voucher No. dated
.
@ If the payment is by Postal Money Order, identification is required twice a year as
prescribed otherwise annually.
@
Month
for
which
pension
is due
19 19 19 19 19 19 19 19 19 19
Dat
e of
paymen
t
Disbu
r-sing
office
r’s
initial
s
Dat
e of
paymen
t
Disb
ursing
offic
er’s
initia
ls
Dat
e of
paymen
t
Disbursing
officer’
s
initials
Date
of
paymen
t
Disbu
r-sing
office
r’s
initial
s
Date
of
paymen
t
Disbur
-sing
officer
’s
initials
REMARK
S
July
August
Septem
ber
October
Novem
ber
Decemb
er
January
Februar
y
March
April
May
June
Dat
e
Initial
s
Dat
e
Initia
ls
Dat
e
Initials Date Initial
s
Date Initial
s
Note of
pensioner
’s
identificat
ion
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This document is to be retained by the Disbursing Officer so
long as the authority remains in force in such manner that the
pensioner shall have no access to it. Every separate payment
is to be recorded as below:-
@
Month
for
which
pension
is due
19 19 19 19 19 19 19 19 19 19
Date
of
paymen
t
Disbu
r-sing
office
r’s
initial
s
Dat
e of
paymen
t
Disb
ursing
office
r’s
initia
ls
Dat
e of
paymen
t
Disbursing
officer’
s
initials
Date
of
paymen
t
Disbu
r-sing
office
r’s
initial
s
Date
of
paymen
t
Disbur
-sing
officer
’s
initials
REMA
RKS
July
August
Septem
ber
October
Novem
ber
Decemb
er
January
Februar
y
March
April
May
June
Date Initial
s
Dat
e
Initia
ls
Dat
e
Initials Date Initial
s
Date Initial
s
Note of
pensioner
’s
identificat
ion
@ Month
for which
19 19 19 19 19 19 19 19 19 19
@ If the payment is by Postal Money Order, identification is required twice a year as
prescribed otherwise annually.
@ If the payment is by Postal Money Order, identification is required twice a year as
prescribed otherwise annually.
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pension is
due
Date
of
payment
Dis
bursing
offi
cer’
s
initi
als
Date
of
payment
Disbu
r-sing
office
r’s
initial
s
Date
of
payment
Disbursing
officer’s
initials
Date
of
payment
Disbur
-sing
officer
’s
initials
Date
of
payment
Disbursing
officer’
s
initials
REMARK
S
July
August
September
October
November
December
January
February
March
April
May
June
Date Initi
als
Date Initial
s
Date Initials Date Initials Date Initials
Note of
pensioner’s
identification
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FORM 6 (PEN.)
(Referred to in Rule 8.2)
COMMUTATION OF CIVIL PENSIONS
PART-I FORM OF APPLICATION
I, desire to commute Rs of my
Superannuation/ Retiring/Invalid/Compensation pension of Rs
month. I certify that I have answered correctly each and
all of the questions below –
Place Signature
Date Designation
Address
Question Answer
1. What is the date of your birth?
2. How much of your pension do you wish to
commute?
3. (a) Have you already commuted a portion of your
pension, if so give particulars.
(b) Has any application from you for commutation
of pension ever been rejected, or have you
ever accepted/declined to accept commutation
of pension on the basis of an addition of years
to your actual age recommended by the
medical authority? If so, give particulars.
4. From what treasury do you draw or proposed to draw
your pension and commutation money?
5. If you are already drawing your pension quote the
No. of your Pension Payment Order.
6. Without prejudice to the direction of the sanctioning
authority, from what date approximately do you wish
this commutation to have effect?
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7. At what station (near the area in which you are
ordinarily resident) would you prefer your medical
examination to take place
Place:
Signature
Forwarded for report to
(Here enter designation
and address
of the Accounts Officer)
Date:
Signature
Designation (of Head of
Office/
Department/Attached
Department)
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*[PART-II
Forwarded to (Here enter the designation and
address of the sanctioning authority).
2. Subject to the medical authority’s recommending
commutation, the capitalized value of Rs. out of the
monthly pension of Rs. will be payable as stated below:-
Sum payable, if the commutation (On the basis of
normal
becomes absolute before the age,
i.e.………….years,
applicant’s next birthday,
Rs…………………….)
which falls on.
Sum payable if the commutation (On the basis of
becomes absolute before the normal age,…….
years,
applicant’s next birthday,
Rs…….……………….)
but before the birthday
but one.
3. The sum payable will be debitable to
(i)The Federal Government Rs………….
(ii) The Provincial Government(s) of. Rs………….
Signature and Designation of
Accounts Officer.
Station
Date
_________________________________________________
*Part-II and III substituted vide Notification No. F.D. (SR-III) 4-1/89 dated 1st March
1992
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Part-III
Administrative sanction is accorded to the above
commutation. A certified copy of paragraph 2 of Part-II of the
Form has been forwarded to the applicant in Form 7 (Pen).
Signature and Designation
of the Sanctioning Authority
Place
Date
Forwarded with one copy of Form 8 (Pen) and one
extra copy of Part-III of that Form to the Secretary to
Government of the Punjab, Health Department, Lahore, in
original on with the request that he will arrange
for the medical examination of applicant by the proper medical
authority as early as possible within three months from the (here
enter the date) but not earlier than the __________(here enter
the date of retirement) and inform the applicant direct in
sufficient time where and when he should appear for the
examination.
The next birthday of the applicant falls on
and his medical examination may be arranged before
that date, if possible, unless the applicant desires that it should
be held after that date but within the period prescribed in the
sanctioning order.
Signature and Designation
of the Sanctioning Authority]
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FORM 7 (PEN.)
(Referred to in Rule 8.7)
COMMUTATION OF CIVIL PENSIONS
PART I
Subject to the medical authority’s recommending
commutation and the conditions prescribed in Part II of this form,
the capitalized value of out of the monthly pension of Rs.
will be payable as stated below :
Sum payable if the commutation
becomes absolute before the applicant’s
next birthday, which falls on
i.e.……years,
Rs………
Sum payable if the commutation becomes absolute
age after the applicant’s next birthday but before his
next birthday but one.
………years, Rs……….
Station Signed
Date. (Designation of Accounts Officer)
PART II
The commutation for a lump-sum payment of the
pension of is administratively sanctioned on the basis
of the report of the Accounts Officer contained in Part I above.
The sum payable will be the sum appropriate to the applicant’s
age on his birthday next after the date on which the commutation
becomes absolute, or, if the medical authority directs that years
shall be added to that age, to the consequent assumed age.
2. The Secretary to Government of the Punjab, Health
Department, has been requested to arrange for the medical
examination and inform Mr. direct where and when he
should appear for the examination. He should bring with him the
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enclosed Form 8(Pen) with the particular required in Part I
completed except for the signature.
Station. (Signature and designation of
Date. the Sanctioning Authority).
To
_____________________________
(The name and address of applicant)
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FORM 8 (PEN)
(Referred to in Rule 8.5)
COMMUTATION OF CIVIL PENSIONS
Medical Examination by the
________________________________________
(here enter the medical authority)
PART-I
Statement by the applicant for commutation of a portion
of his pension. The applicant must complete this statement prior
to his examination by the (here enter the medical
authority) and must sign the declaration appended thereto in the
presence of that authority.
1. Name in full (in block letters).
2. Date of birth.
3. Have you ever been granted leave on medical
certificate. If so, state periods of leave and nature
of illness.
4. Has any application for insurance on your life ever
been declined or accepted at an increased
premium?
5. (i) Have you ever been told that you had
albumen or sugar in the urine?
(ii) Do you rise at night to urinate?
(iii) Are you now or have you ever been on
special diet for your health?
(iv) Has there been any marked increase or
decrease in your weight within the past three
years? If so, how much?
6. Have you been under the treatment of any doctor
within the last three months, if so, for what illness?
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DECLARATION BY APPLICANT
(To be signed in presence of the medical authority)
I declare all the above answers to be, to the best of my
belief, are true and correct. I will fully reveal to the medical
authority all circumstances within my knowledge that concern my
health and fitness.
I am fully aware that by willfully making a false statement
or concealing a relevant fact I shall incur the risk of losing the
commutation I have applied for, and of having my pension
withheld or withdrawn under rule 1.8 of the Punjab Civil Services
Pensions Rules.
Applicant’s Signature
Signed in presence of
Signature and designation of medical authority
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FORM 8 (PEN.) – Contd.
PART-II
(To be filled in by the examining medical authority)
1. Apparent age.
2. Height
3. Weight.
4. Girth of abdomen at level of umbilicus.
5. Pulse rate –
(a) Sitting
(b) Standing.
(c) What is character of pulse?
6. What is condition of arteries?
7. Blood pressure –
(a) Systolic.
(b) Diastolic.
8. Is there any evidence of disease of the main organs –
(a) Heart.
(b) Lungs.
(c) Liver.
(d) Spleen.
9. Does chemical examination of urine show (i) albumen,
(ii) Sugar?
State specific gravity.
10. Has the applicant a rupture? If so, state the kind and if
reducible.
11. Describe any scars or identify marks.
12. Any additional information.
(Signature and designation of
examining
Station medical authority)
Dated
*PART-III
I/We have carefully examined
(Name of applicant)
and am/are of opinion that:
_____________________________________________
*Substituted vide Notification No. FD (SR-III) 4-1/89 dated 1st March 1992
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Either he is/is not good bodily health and has the prospect of an
average duration of life/is not a fit subject for commutation or (in
the case of an impaired life which is yet considered a fit subject
for commutation) as
Name of applicant
is suffering from his age for the purpose of
commutation, i.e. his age next birthday should be taken to be
years more than actual age.
Left hand and finger impression of
non-gazetted Government servants.
Station (Signature and designation of
examining
Dated medical authority).
Note – In the case of an impaired life, if the pensioner
desires, after the medical examination to record his acceptance
of the reduced commutation value without waiting for an
intimation of the revised commuted value from the Accounts
Officer, he may intimate to that officer an unconditional
acceptance which will be treated as final and irrevocable.
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FORM 9 (PEN)
(Referred to in Rule 10.8)
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR INJURY PENSION OR
GRATUITY
1. Name of applicant.
2. Father’s name.
*[3. Race, sect and caste. ]
3. Residence, showing village/Tehsil & District/** Pargana.
4. Present or last employment including name of
establishment.
5. Date of beginning of service.
*** [6. Length of Service including interruptions-
(a)the service qualifying for pension,
(b)non-qualifying service and interruption.]
7. Classification of injury.
8. Pay at the time of injury.
9. Proposed Pension or Gratuity.
10. Date of injury.
11. Place of payment.
12. Special remarks, if any.
13. Date of applicant’s birth by Christian era.
14. Height.
15. Remarks.
Thumb and finger impression
Thumb Fore-finger Middle-finger Ring finger Little finger
16. Date on which the applicant applied for pension.
Signature of Head of Office/
Department/Attached Department.
____________________________________________
* Deleted vide Notification No. F.D. (SR-III) 4-1/89 dated 1st March 1992 &
subsequent serial numbers were renumbered.
** Deleted vide Notification No. F.D. (SR-III) 4-1/89 dated 1st March 1992
*** Substituted vide Notification No. F.D. (SR-III) 4-1/89 dated 1st March 1992
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Note – In the case of ladies, gazetted Government
servants, Government title holders and other persons who may
be specially exempted by Government, thumb and
finger-impression and particulars of height and personal marks
are not required.
* If not known exactly, must be stated on the last information
or estimate.
___________________________________________
*Deleted vide Notification No. F.D. (SR-III) 4-1/89 dated 1st March 1992
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FORM 10 (PEN)
(Referred to in Rule 10.8)
FORM OF APPLICATION FOR FAMILY PENSION
Application for an extraordinary pension for the family of
* A.B. late killed, or died of (injuries received in the
execution of duty.)
Submitted by the
Description of claimants. (1) Name and residence
showing village,
Tehsil and District.
(2) Age.
(3) Height.
**(4) Race, caste or tribe.
(4) Marks for
identification.
(5) Present occupation
and pecuniary
circumstances.
(6) Degree of
relationship to
deceased.
Description of deceased. (7) Name.
(8) Occupation &
service.
(9) Length of service.
(10) Pay when killed.
(11) Nature of injury
causing death.
(12) Amount of pension
or gratuity
proposed.
(13) Place of payment.
(14) Date from which
pension is to
commence.
(15) Remarks.
____________________________________________
* Deleted vide Notification No. F.D. (SR-III) 4-1/89 dated 1st March 1992
** Deleted vide Notification No. F.D. (SR-III) 4-1/89 dated 1st March 1992 &
subsequent Sr. Nos. renumbered.
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Name Date of birth by Christian era.
Name and age of surviving Sons
kindred of deceased Widows
Daughters
Father
Mother
Note – If the deceased has left no son, widow, daughter,
father or mother surviving him, the word “none” or “dead” should
be entered opposite to such relative.
Place Signature of Head of
Dated Office/Department/ Attached
Department.
Note – Entries 1, 7 and 13 to be entered in Block Capitals.
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* FORM 11 (PEN)
(Referred to in Rule 10.8)
FORM TO BE USED BY MEDICAL BOARD WHEN
REPORTING ON INJURIES
PROCEEDINGS OF MEDICAL BOARD
Proceedings of a Medical Board assembled by order of
for the purpose of examining and reporting on the
present state of the injury sustained /disease contracted by
at (place of injury, etc.) on the (
date of injury) etc.
(a) State briefly the circumstances under which the
injury/disease was sustained/contracted.
(b) What is the Government servant’s present
condition.
(c) Is the Government servant’s present condition
wholly due to the injury/disease? if not, state to
what other causes it is attributable.
(d) In the case of disease, from which date does it
appear that the Government servant has been
incapacitated?
The opinion of the Board is as follows:
INSTRUCTIONS TO BE OBSERVED BY THE MEDICAL
BOARD PREPARING THE REPORT
1. The Medical Board before recording their opinion should
invariably consult the proceedings of previous medical boards, if
any, as also all previous medical documents connected with the
Government servants brought before them for examination.
________________________________________________
*Substituted vide Notification No. F.D. (SR-III) 4-1/89 dated 1st March 1992
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2. The Board should clearly specify the nature of
injury/disability and the class in which it falls according to the
classification given below.
3. If the injuries be more than one, they should be
numbered and described separately and should it be considered
that together they have resulted in a disability of class A, B, or C,
this opinion should be expressed in the report giving details of
the disability.
4. The Medical Board will confine itself exclusively to
medical aspect of the case and will carefully discriminate
between the Government servant’s unsupported statements and
the medical and documentary evidence available.
5. The Board will not express any opinion, either to the
Government servant examined, or in their report, as to whether
he is entitled to compensation, or as to the amount of it, nor will it
inform the Government servant how the injury has been
classified.
CLASSIFICATION OF DISABILITY
Class ‘A’
1. Death/loss of life.
2. Loss of hand and a foot or loss of use of two more limbs.
3. Total loss of eyesight.
4. Total loss of speech.
5. Total deafness, both ears.
6. Paralegia or hemiplegia.
7. Lunacy.
8. Very severe facial disfigurement.
9. Advanced cases of incurable disease.
10. Wounds, injuries or diseases resulting in a disability due
to which a person becomes incapacitated.
11. Emasculation.
Note– Wounds, injuries or disease of limb resulting in damage of
nerves, joints, or muscles making the whole of limb useless
would mean loss of that limb. Cases in which a partial function is
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retained will not be included in this class. However, if the partial
retention of function does not help in walking in case of leg or
does not help in holding an object even with partial efficiency, it
should be considered as total loss of function. Those cases will
also be included in this class where the earning capacity of the
Government servant has been totally impaired due to the
invaliding disability.
Class ‘B’
1. Loss of a thumb or at least three fingers of hand.
2. Partial loss of one or both feet at or beyond
tarsometatarsal joint.
3. Loss of vision of one eye.
Class ‘C’
1. Limited restriction of movement of joint due to injuries.
2. Disease of a limb restricting performance of duties.
General Note — When the wound, injury or illness causing the
disability is not entered in the above schedule, the
disability shall be assessed by the medical board at the
classification most closely corresponding to those given
above.
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Ancillary
Instructions
THE PUNJAB CIVIL SERVICES
PENSION RULES
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Ancillary Instructions
(THE PUNJAB CIVIL SERVICES PENSION RULES)
Sr# SUBJECT Page#
1. SIMPLIFICATION OF PROCEDURES REGARDING
PENSIONS
2. VERIFICATION OF SERVICE OF GOVERNMENT SERVANT
FOR PURPOSE OF PENSION
3. PAYMENT OF CAPITALIZED VALUE OF PENSION &
GRATUITY FOR SERVICE RENDERED UNDER THE PUNJAB
GOVERNMENT.
4. RESTORATION OF COMMUTED PORTION OF PENSION
5. GRANT OF PENSIONARY BENEFITS TO THE EMPLOYEES
OF AUTONOMOUS/SEMI AUTONOMOUS ORGANIZATIONS
ON REGULAR APPOINTMNT TO POSTS IN GOVERNMENT
6. INDEXATION OF PAY OF CIVILIAN EMPLOYEES OF
GOVERNMENT OF THE PUNJAB.
7. INDEXATION OF PENSION TO PENSIONERS OF THE
PUNJAB GOVERNMENT
8. INDEXATION OF PENSION OF THOSE WHO RETIRED
DURING THE PERIOD FROM 1-1-1986 TO 30-6-1986.
9. SUBJECT: REVISION OF RATES OF COMMUTATION AND
10. INDEXATION OF PENSION TO THE PENSIONERS OF THE
PUNJAB GOVERNMENT
11. GRANT OF DEARNESS IINCREASE IN PENSION TO CIVIL
PENSIONERS OF THE PUNJAB GOVT. WHO RETIRED
DURING THE PERIOD FROM 1. 7.1983 TO ‘30.6 1984
12. INDEXATION OF PENSION WHO RETIRED DURING THE
‘PERIOD FROM 1.1.198.6 TO 30.6.1986.
13. INDEXATION OF PENSION
14. LIBERALIZATION OF PENSION RULES- FAMILY PENSION
15. GRANT OF 10% ADHOC INCREASE IN PENSION W.E.F
1.7.1990
16. BENEFIT FOR EXTRA YEARS OF SERVICE AFTER
COMPLETION OF 30 YEARS W.EF1-7-1990 CLARIFICATION
THEREOF
17. GRANT OF 10% ADHOC INCREASE IN PENSION W.E.F
1.7.1990 AND CLARIFICATION THERO OF
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18. GRANT OF ADHOC INCREASE IN PENSION TO CIVIL
PENSIONERS OF THE PUNJAB GOVERNMENT
19. RESTORATION OF PENSION SURRENDERED IN LIEU OF
GRATUITY/COMMUTATION
20. GRANT OF ADHOC INCREAS IN PENSIO TO CI VlL
PENSIONERS OF THE PUNJAB GOVERNMENT
21. GRANT OF PENSIONARY BENEFITS TO THE EMPLOYEES
OF AUTONOMOUS/SEMI AUTONOMOUS ORGANIZATIONS
ON REGULAR APPOINTMNT TO POSTS IN GOVERNMENT
22. GRANT OF ADHOC INCREASE IN PENSION TO CIVIL
FUNCIONERW OF THE PUNJAB GOVERNMETN
23. GRANT OF INCREASE IN PESNION TO CIVIL PENSIOERS
OF THEPUNJAB GOVERNMETN
24. VERIFICATION OF SERVICE OF GOVERNMENT
SERVANTS FOR PURPOSES OF PENSION
25. GRANT OF INCREASE IN PENSION TO CIVIL PENSIONERS
OF THE PUNJAB GOVERNMENT
26. RATIONALIZATION OF GRANT OF FAMILY PENSION TO
THE WIDOW/WIDOWER IN CASE OF DEATH OF EITHER
SPOUSE (CIVIL SERVANT
27. FURTHER LIBERALIZATION OF LIBERALIZED PENSION
RULES FOR CIVIL SERVANTS FAMILY PENSION
28. GRANT OF INCREASE IN PENSION TO CIVIL PENSIONERS
OF THE PUNJAB GOVERNMENT, RETIRED IN BPS 1 TO 16
29. GRANT OF INCREASE IN PENSION TO CIVIL PENSIONERS
OF THE PUNJAB GOVERNMENT, RETIRED IN BPS 1 TO 16
30. PROMPT FINALIZATION OF PENDING PENSION/G.P.FUND
CASES
31. COUNTING OF SERVICE TOWARDS PENSION
32. GRANT OF INCREASE IN PENSION TO CIVIL PENSIONERS
OF THE PUNJAB GOVERNMENT INCLUDING CIVILINAS
PAID FROM DEFENCE ESTIMATES
33. GRANT OF COMMUNICATION TO THE WIDOW OF
GOVERNMENT SERVANT RETIRED ON SUPERANNUATION
BUT EXPIRED BEFORE SIGNING HIS PENSION/
COMMUTATION CLAIMS
34. GRANT OF INCREASE IN PENSION TO CIVIL PENSIONERS
OF THE PUNJAB GOVERNMENT INCLUDING CIVILIANS
PAID FROM DEFENSE ESTIMATES
35. NOTIFICATION BEARING NO. FD(PC)10-1/78 DATED 3-01-
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2002
36. GRANT OF INCREASE IN PENSION TO CIVIL PENSIONERS
OF THE PUNJAB GOVERNMENT INCLUDING CIVILINAS
PAID FROM DEFENCE ESTIMATES
37. REVITALIZATION OF THE CRITICAL SERVICE
INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSE TO SECTARIAN VIOLENCE
AGAINST GOVT. OFFICIALS.
38. GRANT OF COMMUTATION TO THE WIDOW OF
GOVERNMENT SERVANT RETIRED ON INVALIDATION BY
MEDICAL BOARD BUT EXPIRED BEFORE SIGNING HIS
PENSION/COMMUTATION CLAIMS
39. GRANT OF COMMUTATION TO THE WIDOW OF
GOVERNMENT SERVAT COMPULSORILY RETIRED FROM
SERVICE BUT EXPIRED BEFORE SIGNING HIS
PENSION/COMMUTATION CLAIMS
40. REVISION OF BASIC PAY SCALES AND FRINGE BENEFITS
OF CIVIL EMPLOYEES (BS-1 TO 22) OF PUNJAB
GOVERNMENT
41. EXTRAORDINARY PENSION.
42. PAYMENT OF FOUR MONTHS SALARY TO THE FAMILY OF
A CIVIL SERVANT WHO DIES WHILE IN SERVICE
43. GRANT IN INCREASE IN EXTRA ORDINARY PENSION
44. EXPEDITIOUS DISPOSAL OF PESION CASES
45. EARLY FINALIZATION OF PENSION PAPERS – PRESIDENT
OF PAKISTAN’S DIRECTIVE.
46. EARLY FINALIZATION OF PENSION PAPERS PRESIDENT
OF PAKISTAN’S DIRECTIVE
47. GRANT OF COMMUTATION TO THE WIDOW OF
GOVERNEMNT SERVANT COMPULSORILY RETIRD FROM
SERVICE BUT EXPIRED BEFORE SIGNING HIS
PENSION/COMMUTATION CLAIMS.
48. RETIREMENT BENEFITS TO SUPERANNUATING
GOVERNMENT SERVANTS
49. EARLY FINALIZATON OF PENSION CASES
50. GRANT Of INCREAS IN PENSION TO CIVIL PENSIONERS
OF THE PUNJAB GOVERNMENT
51. GRANT OF INCRREASEE IN PENSION TO CIVIL
PENSIONRS OFTHE PUNJAB GOVERNMENT
52. GRANT OF INCREASE IN PENSION TO CIVIL PENSIONERS
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OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AS WELL AS RETIRED
ARMED FORCES PERSONNEL
53. EARLY FINALIZATION OF PENSION CASES
54. GRANT OF INCREASE IN PENSION TO CIVIL PENSIONERS
OF THE PUNJAB GOVERNMENT
55. FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO THE FAMILY OF A CIVIL
SERVANT WHO DIES WHILE IN
56. GRANT OF COMMUTATION TO THE WIDOW OF
GOVERNEMNT SERVANT RETIRD ON INVALIDATION BASIS
BY STANDING MEDICAL BOARD BUT EXPIRED BEFORE
SIGNING PENSION / COMMUTATION CLAIMS
57. INCLUSION OF ADHOC RELIEF OF Rs. 300/- IN PENSION
58. PENSION INCREASE
59. INCLUSION OF Rs. 100/- AS RECKONABLE TOWARDS
CALCULATION OF PENSION
60. PAYMENT OF CAPITALIZED VALUE OF PENSION AND
GRATUITY FOR SERVICE RENDERED UNDER THE PUNJAB
GOVERNMENT
61. GRANT OF INCREASE IN RENSION OF CIVIL PENSIONERS
OF PUNJABGOVERNMENT
62. PENSION INCREASE
63. PENSION TO THE RETIRING/RETIRED GOVERNMENT
SERVANTS WHO WHERE OVER AGE AT THE TIME OF
RETIREMENT
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NO. FD.SR.III-4-54/83-C
Dated the 16th July 1985
1. Subject: RESTORATION OF COMMUTED PORTION OF
PENSION
Sir,
I am directed to state that under existing rules a
pensioner on his option can get his pension commuted up to a
maximum of 50 percent. In such cases Government pays
commuted value of such portion of pension for a number of
years according to age next birthday after retirement as
mentioned in the Commutation Table. The Governor has been
pleased to direct that commuted portion of pension to the extent
of 1/4th of gross pension shall be restored w.e.f. 01.07.1985 in
the case of such civil pensioners who have already completed
the number of years for which commuted value of pension was
paid. The 1/4th commuted portion of pension shall also be
restored in the case of those retiring in future on completion of
the number of years for which commuted value is paid.
2. In restoring the commuted portion of pension fraction of a
year mentioned in the Commutation Table Which is less than 6
months will be ignored and that of 6 month and more will count
as one year.
3. No arrears on account of restoration of commuted portion
of pension will be payable in those cases in which the number of
years paid for had been completed before 01.07.1985.
No. FD.SR.III-4-115/91
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Dated the 30th September 1991
2. Subject: RESTORATION OF PENSION SURRENDERED
IN LIEU OF GRATUITY/COMMUTATION
Sir,
I am directed to state that prior to 01.07.1986 a civil
pensioner had the option to surrender 1/4th amount of gross
pension for gratuity and get 1/4th there of commuted. Since then,
payment of gratuity against surrender of 1/4th of pension has
been discontinued and now a civil pensioner has the right, at his
option, to get commuted value of up to 50% of his gross pension.
At present, 1/4th of commuted pension and, if no commutation
has been made, 1/4th amount of gross pension surrendered for
gratuity by the civil pensioners is restored as and when the
pensioner outlives the period for which the
commutation/surrender for gratuity is made. Now the Governor
of the Punjab is pleased to allow the restoration of remaining
1/4th of pension with effect from 01.07.1991 with the condition
that no arrears shall be allowed for the period prior to
01.07.1991.
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ANNEXURE TO THE FINANCE DEPARTMETNS LETTER
NO.FD-SR-III-4-58/86-D DATED 10TH AUGUST 1986
COMMUTATION TABLE
Age next
Birthday
Number of
years
purchase
Age next
birthday
Number of
years
purchase
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50.6304
49.6676
48.7066
47.7467
46.7884
45.8314
44.8758
43.9215
42.9688
42.0179
41.0089
40.1218
39.1767
38.2336
37.2929
36.3551
35.4203
34.4885
33.5603
32.6361
31.7160
30.8007
29.8907
28.9800
28.0891
27.1990
26.3172
25.4444
24.5816
23.7301
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
22.8911
22.0658
21.2563
20.4638
19.6896
18.9348
18.2002
17.4860
16.7925
16.1191
15.4649
14.8290
14.2105
13.6090
13.0239
12.4549
11.9017
11.3643
10.8428
10.3371
9.8472
9.3729
8.9142
8.47.08
8.0427
7.6299
7.2322
6.8496
6.4818
6.1287
5.7901
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No.FD.SR.III-4-58/86-D
Dated the 10th August 1986
3. SUBJECT: REVISION OF RATES OF COMMUTATION AND
ABOLITION OF GRATUITY
Sir,
I am directed to state that under the existing rules a civil
pensioner is eligible to commute at his option 50% of his gross
pension. He has also the option to draw 1/4th amount of gross
pension as gratuity and 1/4th amount thereof as commutation.
The Governor of the Punjab has been pleased to decide that
w.e.f. 01.07.1986 gratuity shall be abolished altogether.
Commutations up to 50% of gross pension shall, however,
continue to be admissible at the option of a pensioner.
2. It has further been decided to replace the existing
commutation table by a new commutation table as annexed to
this letter.
3. Under, the existing rules if a civil servant dies while in
service gratuity in lieu of one-forth of the gross pension is
allowed. In such cases, the rate of gratuity as from 01.07.1986
will be determined on the basis of age next birthday of the
deceased civil servant in accordance with the new Commutation
table referred to above.
NO. FD.SR.III-4-111/89
Dated 22nd July 1989
4. Subject: LIBERALIZATION OF PENSION RULES- FAMILY
PENSION
Sir,
I am directed to state that in accordance with this
Department’s circular letter NO.FD-SR-III-4-54/83 dated
25.08.1983 family pension at present is admissible to the widow
for life or until re-marriage. In the case of death of the widow,
family pension is admissible, to the son, if any, until he attains
the age of 29 years and unmarried daughters, if any, until they
are married or attain the age of 21 years whichever is earlier.
The Governor of Punjab has been pleased to decide that w.e.f.
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01.07.1989 family pension in case of widow’s death will be
admissible to the dependent sons until they attain the age of 24
years or till they are gainfully employed, whichever is earlier and
to unmarried daughters till their marriage, or their acquiring
regular source of income whichever is earlier.
2. The Governor of Punjab has been further pleased to
decide that pension to physically/mentally retarded children will
be admissible for life. Payment of pension to these children will
be subject to the production of a certificate from the Medical
Board that the children is physically/mentally retarded
permanently and not able to be gainfully employed.
3. The existing rules and orders on the subject shall be
deemed to have been modified to the extent indicated above.
Necessary amendment in the rules will be issued in due course.
No. FD.SR.III-4-1/77
Dated the 19th June 1996
5. Subject: VERIFICATION OF SERVICE OF GOVERNMENT
SERVANTS FOR PURPOSES OF PENSION
The study report of pension cases made by the Auditor
General of Pakistan in the office of A.G. Punjab, Lahore
displayed very astonishing results and out of the total 146
pension cases in the month of October, 1994, only 9 were
received before the retirement dates whereas 137 cases were
received after the date of retirement which is indicative of the
fact that instructions contained in the Finance Department letter
No. D.SR.III-4-1/77 dated 14.04.1977 (copy enclosed) are not
being followed strictly. Otherwise no such abnormal delay in
pension cases would have occurred. It is once again
emphasized that the instructions contained in circular letter ibid
may be brought to the notice of all concerned for strict
compliance and the disciplinary action against the defaulters
may be taken up as already requested in F.D.’s letter No.
FD.R.III-4-1/77 dated 02.11.1995.
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No.FDSR.III-4-1/77
Dated the 14th April 1977
6. Subject: SIMPLIFICATION OF PROCEDURES REGARDING
PENSIONS
I am directed to say that the Government attaches a
great importance to the timely sanction of pension, so that a
retired Government servant is not put to financial hardship on
this account. Instructions in this behalf have been issued from
time to time with a view to streamlining and simplifying procedure
ensuring expeditious finalization of pension cases. That some
cases of delay in sanction of pension are still reported indicates
that these instructions are not being observed strictly by all
concerned. The procedure for sanction of pension has again
been considered by the Government with a view to affecting
improvements and the following decisions have been taken:
i) Preparation of pension papers – Action
regarding sanction of pension should be initiated
by the Head of attached/administrative department
one year before the date of retirement and the
pension papers completed in all respects should be
sent to the audit officer six months before the date
of retirement, without fail.
ii) Checking and maintenance of Service Book —
(a) One of the main reasons for delay in the timely
sanction of pensions is incomplete entries and lack
of prescribed periodic checks of the Service Books.
To avoid delay due to this cause, it has been
decided that the departments should, where the
workload so justifies, exclusively designate a
whole-time officer for supervising the maintenance
of Service Books. In any case the responsibility in
this respect should be clearly defined and
assigned. The entries in the Service Books should
be clearly made, verified and attested by the officer
so designated. Officer next above thus designated
officer or the head of an office where he is the
designated officer himself, should record an annual
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certificate in the Service Book in token of the
correctness of the entries made therein.
(b) the Service Book should be got verified from
the Audit Office immediately after the 10th and
24th year of service of the official concerned.
On the basis of these annual certificates
recorded as instructed in sub para (a) above
the head of the office should also record a
consolidated certificate in respect of the
entire service period in the following form:
Service from to
verified from
. There is no known disqualifying spell
during the above service except as detailed below:
(The period and nature of spell(s) to be indicated)
1.
2.
3.
This certificate should also be recorded before submission of the
case to the Audit Office as laid down above. The Audit Office
shall accept it as a final proof of verification of service.
(c) The Service Book should be maintained in
duplicate, the duplicate copy being kept in
custody of the Government servant. Entries in
duplicate Service Book shall as far as
possible be made simultaneously with those
in the original Service Book. However, this
duplicate Service Book would serve as a
means of contemporary evidence, if needed.
(d) In the case of transfer of a Government
servant, the original Service Book duly
completed to the date of transfer should be
sent to new head of the department/office
and a copy of the entries relating to the office
from which transfer takes place shall be
maintained in that office; a certificate to this
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effect shall invariably be recorded in the
covering letter under which the Service Book
is transferred.
iii) Production of “No Demand Certificate” not
essential – Payment of pension should not be held
up for want of “No Demand Certificate”. It is not
necessary to enclose the “No Demand Certificate”
with the pension papers when they are sent to the
Audit Office. This is for strictly compliance by all
concerned. The head of the department should
while initiating action on pension papers
simultaneously notify to the Estate Officer or other
agencies which are likely to prefer a demand, to
verify the position in respect of any demand
outstanding against the official concerned within a
period of not more than three months and to keep
a close supervision on the current demands. The
Department should also send the requisite
certificate to the Audit Office 15 days before the
date of issue of prescribed PPO. The Department
should, however, obtain an undertaking from the
Government servant concerned that the
outstanding dues, if any, would be paid by him from
his pension provided such demands are preferred
within one year of the date of his retirement.
iv) Review of delayed cases – Every head of the
Department should review the position in respect of
outstanding pension cases every 3 months and
furnish a statement of outstanding cases including
the cases of anticipatory pensions together with the
reasons for delay and the remarks of the
Accountant-General/District Accounts Officer to the
Pension Cases Disposal Committee.
v) Nomination regarding beneficiaries – The
Administrative Account should also take timely —–
— for ensuring that the Government servant has
made proper nomination regarding beneficiaries in
the even of his death.
vi) Issue of pension payment order – The pension
payment order shall as a rule be issued:
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(i) in the case of normal retirement, one
month before retirement, and
(ii) in the case of premature, voluntary or
compulsory retirement of death, within 3
months from the date of the even.
(b) If for any reason, it is
apprehended that the pension
payment order cannot be issued
within the prescribed time, a
provisional PPO, authoring
payment of 80% of the admissible
pension should be issued by the
competent authority without
referring the case to the audit
office within one month of the
expiry of the time prescribed in
sub para (a) above.
(vii) Condoning of gaps for qualifying service
(a) As in the existing rules, the period of
extraordinary leave shall not be treated
as qualifying service for pension but
only as a bridge between the two
periods of qualifying service.
Interruption in service due to other
reasons may be condoned provided
such interruption is not due to any fault
or willful act of the Government servant,
like unauthorized absence, resignation
or removal from service. Interruption
due to removal on account of reduction
and retrenchment of the post shall,
however, be deemed to have been
condoned. The period of such
interruption shall not however count as
qualifying service for pension.
(b) all periods suspensions followed by
reinstatement should qualify for pension
regardless of the fact whether the
Government servant was or was not
allowed full pay and allowances for the
period of suspension. In other words,
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the mere act of reinstatement should be
deemed to have rendered the period of
suspension as qualifying for pension.
(c) The action in respect of break in service should be
completed by the head of the Department competent
authority before forwarding pension papers to the audit
office.
(viii) Commutation – (a) Submission of pensioners to
medical examination is not necessary if
commutation is applied for within one year of the
date of retirement. The pensioners should apply to
the Accounts Officer for commutation who would
authorize the payment. In the event of issue of
provisional pension, the commutation may be
provisionally sanctioned on the basis therein but
when the pension is finally sanctioned the final
payment order shall be substituted for the
provisional payment order for purposes of
commutation as also for all other purposes.
(b) in the case of premature retirement on medical
grounds, the requirement of medical examination shall not
be waived.
(ix) Undrawn pension arrears – It has been decided
that there should be no restriction for the drawl of
the pension, if it falls in arrears. The arrears may be
paid by the disbursing offers without reference to
the audit office or the pension sanctioning authority.
(x) All existing rules shall be deemed to have
been modified to the extent indicated above.
(ix) These orders will take effect from 1st February, 1977
in case of para (viii) above i.e. Commutation and
from 1st July, 1977 in respect of other clauses.
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No. FD.SR.III-4-1/77
Dated the 12th March 1997
7. Subject: VERIFICATION OF SERVICE OF GOVERNMENT
SERVANTS FOR PURPOSES OF PENSION
In continuation of this Department’s
letter No. FD.SR.III-4-1/77 dated 2nd November, 1995 and 19th
June, 1996 on the subject noted above, I am directed to state
that it has been reported by the office of the Auditor-General of
Pakistan that authorities dealing with preparation/finalization of
pension claims are not providing lists of Government servants
(Gazetted and non-Gazetted) within the stipulated period of one
year prior to retirement thus causing delays in finalization of
cases as well as hardship to pensioners. It is reiterated that the
information sought for be provided on a monthly basis to
streamline the process of sanction of pension. The lists of
Government servants (Gazetted and non-Gazetted) due to retire
after one year should be supplied to the concerned Accounts
Officer regularly on a monthly basis.
NO.FD.SR.III-4-1/77
Dated the 17th December 1978
8. Subject: VERIFICATION OF SERVICE OF GOVERNMENT
SERVANT FOR PURPOSE OF PENSION
In continuation of this Department’s letter No. 397-
SO(SR)IV/72 dated the 6th March, 1972, on the subject noted
above. I am directed to state that in order to eliminate delay in
the payment of pension to Government servants, it has been
decided by the Provincial Government that services of civil
servants would be verified for the purposes of pension, in
accordance with the following:-
(i) Once, when a Government servant
completes 10 years of service;
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(ii) next, when he completes 24 years of service
(i.e. in respect of 14 intervening years since last
verification); and
(iii) finally, in respect of the period after 24 years
when he is actually due to retire.
No. FD.SR-III-4-114/89
Dated the 15th January 1997
9. SUBJECT: RATIONALIZATION OF GRANT OF FAMILY
PENSION TO THE WIDOW/WIDOWER IN CASE
OF DEATH OF EITHER SPOUSE (CIVIL
SERVANT)
I am directed to state that under the existing
rules/orders on the subject, family pension is admissible to
widower of a deceased female Government servant for a period
of 10 years or un-expired portion of 10 years and to a widow for
life or until remarriage. The Government of the Punjab has
decided that with effect from 01.03.1992 the widower of
deceased female Government servant will also be entitled to
family pension for life or until remarriage.
2. The other instructions on the subject will continue.
No. FD.SR-III-4-22/97
Dated the 29th March 1997
10. Subject: GRANT OF INCREASE IN PENSION TO CIVIL
PENSIONERS OF THE PUNJAB GOVERNMENT,
RETIRED IN BPS 1 TO 16
I am directed to refer to the subject noted above
and to state that the Governor of the Punjab has been pleased to
sanction, with effect from 01.03.1997, an increase @ 10% in
pension for existing civil pensioners of the Punjab Government
retired in BPS 1 to 16.
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2. For the purpose of admissibility of this increase in
pension, the term ‘pension’ means pension before commutation
and/or surrender of 1/4th for gratuity plus dearness/ad hoc
increase/indexation/ad hoc relief in pension sanctioned from time
to time. Gross pension of retired Government employees would
not be less than Rs.300/-P.M. and in the case of family pension
not less than Rs.150/- P.M. for the purpose of calculation of the
above increase.
3. The increase in pension will also be admissible on
family pension granted under the pension-cum-gratuity scheme,
1954, Liberalized Pension Rules, 1977, on pension sanctioned
under the Punjab Civil Services Pension Rules as well as on the
compassionate allowance allowed under the Section 18(3) of the
Punjab Civil Servants Act, 1974.
4. If the gross pension sanctioned by the Punjab
Government is shared with any other Government in accordance
with the Provisions of Appendix-4 of Punjab Financial Rules Vol.
II, the amount of the increase in pension will be apportioned
between the Punjab Government and the other Government
concerned on proportionate basis.
5. Commutation/Gratuity of any part of increase in
pension will not be permissible.
6. In the case of re-employed pensioners, the
increase in pension sanctioned in this circular letter shall not be
admissible to them during the period re-employment.
7. The benefit of increase in pension sanctioned in
this circular letter will also be admissible to those civil pensioners
of the Punjab Government who are residing abroad (other than
those residing in India and Bangladesh) who retired on or after
15.08.1947 and are not entitled to or are not in receipt of pension
increase under the British Government’s Pension (Increase)
Acts. The payment will be made at the existing official rate of
exchange.
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No. FD.SR-III-4-22/97
Dated the 10th April 1997
11. Subject: GRANT OF INCREASE IN PENSION TO CIVIL
PENSIONERS OF THE PUNJAB GOVERNMENT,
RETIRED IN BPS 1 TO 16
I am directed to refer to this department’s circular
letter of even number dated 29.03.1997 on the subject noted
above and to say that certain queries with clarifications thereto
are brought to the notice of all concerned for guidance and
necessary action:
QUERIES
i) Whether the above said increase is also admissible to
the pensioners who were in BPS-17 by move-over or
by virtue of Selection Grade
ii) Whether the said increase is admissible to those who
will retire on or after 01.03.1997.
CLARIFICATIONS:
i) The benefit of 10% increase in pension is also
admissible to those pensioners who were in BPS-17
by virtue of moreover but not to those who were in
BPS-17 by virtue of Selection Grade.
ii) The benefit of an increase in pension is admissible to
those Government servants who were retired prior to
1st March 1997.
NO.FD.SR.III-4-54\83
Dated the 12th March 1997
12. SUBJECT: FURTHER LIBERALIZATION OF LIBERALIZED
PENSION RULES FOR CIVIL SERVANTS
FAMILY PENSION
I am directed to refer to rule 4.10(2)(B)( i ) & (ii) of
the Punjab Civil Services Pension Rules read with para-5 of the
circular letter No.FD.SR.III-4\1-77 dated 17.01.1997 according to
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which in the event of no pension being payable under clause(A)
of the rule ibid the family pensions granted for period of 10 years
or un-expired portion of 10 years to:-
i) the father; or
ii) failing the father to the mother:
I am also to state that it has been decided that
w.e.f. 01.01.1996, family pension will be admissible to the father
and failing father to the mother for life instead of a period of 10
years in the event of no pension being payable under clause(A)
of the rule ibid. It is further clarified that this amendment shall
apply ONLY in case of father land failing the father to the mother
as surviving heir. The remaining shall continue to be governed
by the original provision.
No. SO (PCDC)-11(2)/97-Misc.
Dated Lahore the 23rd December 1997
13. Subject: PROMPT FINALIZATION OF PENDING
PENSION/G.P.FUND CASES
The pension rules require that the pension
cases of the retiring Government servants should be initiated
one year before the date of their retirement and be referred to
the audit office six months before the retiring date and the
pension payment order should be issued one month before the
actual date of retirement. Despite requirement of rules and
instructions issued by the Government, in this regard, from time
to time, the prescribed time schedule is not being observed by
certain pension sanctioning authorities with the result that delay
continues to occur in the payment of pension to the retirees.
2. In the meetings conducted by the Pension Cases
Disposal Committee, it has transpired that much of the delay
takes place due to the apathy/indifference on the part of the
Heads of Departments/Offices who do not take personal interest
in the finalization of the cases. In some cases the pension
sanctioning authorities and heads of Departments/offices not
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only do not attend the meetings personally and in case of their
inability to attend the meetings due to their official engagements,
they even do not depute the officers, well-versed with the facts of
the cases, but depute clerks and assistants who are unable to
explain the causes of delay/bottlenecks in the sanctioning of
Pension/G.P. Fund cases in the meetings. This obviously
defeats the very purpose for which these meetings are held to
guide the pension sanctioning authorities and to iron out
difficulties in the disposal of the cases and give them an
opportunity to objectively assess the over all working of their
subordinate offices.
3. The above position may kindly be brought to the
notice of all pension sanctioning authorities and drawing and
disbursing officers for settlement of claims for pension and G.P.
Fund accordingly in all cases. Moreover, in future, the PCDC
meetings should be attended by the Pension Sanctioning
Authorities themselves or in case of their inability in this regard,
by the gazetted officers of their offices/ departments who are
well conversant with the facts of the cases.
4. It is further requested that necessary instructions
be issued to all the offices under your control to ensure that the
time schedule prescribed for this purpose is adhered to strictly
and information/documents called for by the Audit Offices for
finalization of Pension/G.P. Fund cases are furnished promptly.
No. FD.SR-III-4-72/99
Dated the 27th July 1999
14. Subject: GRANT OF INCREASE IN PENSION TO CIVIL
PENSIONERS OF THE PUNJAB GOVERNMENT
INCLUDING CIVILINAS PAID FROM DEFENCE
ESTIMATES
I am directed to refer to the subject and state that
the Governor of the Punjab has been pleased to sanction with
effect from 1st July, 1999 increase in pension to all civil
pensioners of Punjab Government at the rates as follows:
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Increase in Pension
i) Pensioners in BPS 1 to 16
25%
ii) Pensioners in BPS 17 & above
20%
2. For the purpose of admissibility of the increase in
pension, the term ‘pension’ means pension before commutation
and/or surrender of ¼ for gratuity plus dearness/ad hoc
increases/indexation/ad hoc relief, in pension sanctioned from
time to time. Gross pension of retired Government employees
would not be less than Rs. 300/- per month and in the case of
family pension not less than Rs. 150/- per month for the purpose
of calculation of the above increase.
3. The increase in pension will also be admissible
on family pension granted under the Pension-cum-Gratuity Scheme,
1994, Liberalized Pension Rules, 1997, on Pension sanctioned
under the Punjab Civil Services Pension Rules as well as on the
Compassionate Allowance allowed under Section 18 (3) of the
Punjab Civil Servants Act, 1974.
4. The increase in pension will also be admissible to
those Government Servants who would retire between the
period commencing from 1st July 1999 and introduction of
revised pay scales.
5. If the gross pension sanctioned by the Punjab
Government is shared with any other Government in accordance
with the rules laid down in Appendix-4 of Punjab Financial Rules
Vol-II, the amount of the increase in pension will be apportioned
between the Punjab Government and the other Government
concerned on proportionate basis.
6. Commutation/Gratuity of any part of increase in
pension will not be permissible.
7. In the case of re-employed pensioners, the
increase in pension sanctioned in this office memorandum shall
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not be admissible to them during the period of their reemployment.
8. The benefit of increase in pension sanctioned in
this circular letter will also be admissible to those civil pensioners
of the Punjab Government who are residing abroad (other than
those residing in India and Bangladesh) who retired on or after
15th June, 1947 and are not entitled to, or are not in receipt of
pension increase under the British Government’s Pension
(Increase) Acts. The payment will be made at the existing official
rate of exchange.
No. FD.SR-III-4-72/99
Dated the 7th February 2001
15. Subject: GRANT OF INCREASE IN PENSION TO CIVIL
PENSIONERS OF THE PUNJAB GOVERNMENT
INCLUDING CIVILINAS PAID FROM DEFENCE
ESTIMATES
I am directed to refer to this department’s circular
letter of even number dated 27.07.1999 on the subject noted
above and to state that the issue of grant of 20% or 25%
increase in pension to the pensioners who retired in BS-17 by
virtue of move-over, has been under consideration for some time
especially following the observations of the Auditor General of
Pakistan contained in his reference bearing No. REGII/
21/C/94/KW/394-96 dated 23.10.1999.
2. The Finance Division, Ministry of Finance, after
examination of the subject case, has decided that as the pension
is drawn on the basis of the pay last drawn, therefore, any one
drawing pay in BS-17 at the time of retirement will be entitled to
the increase in pension 20% allowed under O.M. No. F-4 (1)-
REG.6/99 dated 23.07.1999.
3. In pursuance of the policy of the Finance Division,
it is clarified that the pensioners who retired in BS-17 while
holding it by virtue of move-over are entitled to draw 20%
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increase in pension allowed vide the above referred circular of
the Punjab Government.
No. FD.SR-III-12-8/2000
Dated the 28th February 2002
16. Subject: GRANT OF COMMUTATION TO THE WIDOW OF
GOVERNMENT SERVANT RETIRED ON
INVALIDATION BY MEDICAL BOARD BUT
EXPIRED BEFORE SIGNING HIS
PENSION/COMMUTATION CLAIMS
I am directed to refer to subject noted above
and to state that commutation up to 40% of gross pension is
admissible to a civil pensioner at his option. Under the existing
procedure, the entitlement of commuted value up to 40% of
gross pension becomes valid as and when a Government
Servant, while in service or on retirement, exercises his option
for commuted value of pension. Few references have been
received in this Department wherein Government servants, while
having retired on invalidation by Medical Board, could not sign
their pension papers due to their death. Consequently, the
bereaved families of deceased pensioners were not given
benefits of the commuted value of pension under the existing
rules and orders.
2. The case has been considered an it has been
decided that the family of a deceased Government Servant, who
after having retirement on invalidation by Medical Board, could
not sign his pension papers due to death, will also be entitled for
the commuted value of pension henceforth.
No. FD.SR-III-4-73/2002
Dated the 9th May 2002
17. Subject: REVISION OF BASIC PAY SCALES AND
FRINGE BENEFITS OF CIVIL EMPLOYEES (BS-
1 TO 22) OF PUNJAB GOVERNMENT
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I am directed to refer to this department’s
circular letter No. FD.PC.2-1/2001, dated 22.10.2001, on the
subject noted above and further to clarify that the retiring
employees w.e.f. 01.07.2001 who opt for 2001 Pay Scales are
not entitled to 5% increase and condition of reduction in pension
by 5% has now been deleted.
No. FD.PC.2-1/97
Dated the 2nd March 2006
18.Subject: INCLUSION OF ADHOC RELIEF OF Rs. 300/- IN
PENSION
I am directed to refer to this department’s
letter of even number dated 15th March, 1997 regarding grant of
Adhoc Relief to civil servants and to say that in light of Judgment
of Supreme Court of Pakistan in civil petition No. 3403/2001
dated 21.03.2003, it has been decided to treat Adhoc Relief of
Rs. 300/- reckonable towards pension for those retired
employees in BPS-1-16 (including those who were in BPS-17 by
virtue of move-over) who were in receipt of Adhoc Relief at the
time of their retirement.
No. FD.PC.2-1/97
Dated the 24th August 2006
19. Subject: INCLUSION OF Rs. 100/- AS RECKONABLE
TOWARDS CALCULATION OF PENSION
I am directed to refer to this department’s letter of
even number dated 17.01.2000 regarding grant of adhoc relief
@ Rs. 100/- p.m. to civil servants in BS-1 to BS-16 and to letter
of even number dated 02.03.2006, making the adhoc relief of
Rs. 300/- as reckonable towards calculation of pension and to
state that condition No. (iii) of the letter dated 17.01.2000
referred to above, is modified to the extent that adhoc relief of
Rs. 100/- shall be treated as part of emoluments for the purpose
of calculation of pension for those retired employees in BS-1 to
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BS-16 (including those, in BS-17 by virtue of move-over) who
were in receipt of adhoc relief at the time of their retirement.
No. FD.(SR-III)4-80/2006
Dated the 22nd July, 2006
20. Subject: PENSION INCREASE
I am directed to state that the Governor of the
Punjab has been pleased to grant increase in pension to the
pensioners including family pensioners of the Government of the
Punjab with effect from 01.07.2006 at the following rates:
a) Pensioners who retired prior to 01.05.1977
20%
b) Pensioners who retired on or after
01.05.1977 15%
2. The increase in pension will also be
admissible to those government servants who would retire after
30.06.2006.
3. For the purpose of admissibility of increase in
pension sanctioned in this notification the term “Pension” means
“Pension being drawn”.
4. The increase will also be admissible on
Family Pension, Extraordinary Pension & on Compassionate
Allowance, sanctioned under the Pension Rules, of Government
of the Punjab.
5. If the gross pension sanctioned by the Punjab
Government is shared with any Government in accordance with
the rules, the amount of the increase in pension will be
apportioned between the Punjab Government and the other
Government concerned on proportionate basis.
6. In case of re-employed pensioners, the
increase in pension sanctioned in this notification shall not be
admissible to them during the period of their re-employment.
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7. The benefit of increase in pension sanctioned
in this notification will also be admissible to those civil
pensioners of the Punjab Government who are residing abroad
(other than those residing in India and Bangladesh) who retired
on or after 15.08.1947 and are not entitled to, or are not in
receipt of pension increase under the British Government’s
Pension (increase) Acts. The payment will be made at the
applicable rate of exchange.
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INDEX
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ABOLITION
REVISION OF RATES OF
COMMUTATION AND —
— OF GRATUTTY 89
Absence 6
Accountant-General 23
Accounts Officer 17, 23, 30,
31, 32, 63, 65, 66, 69, 72,
73, 75, 78
acquaintance rolls 25
actual age 31, 32, 72, 77
administrative sanction 30,
31
amount of pension 12
ANTICIPATORY
—- PENSION/GRATUITY
68
anticipatory pension 23, 27,
28, 61, 65, 66, 67
Anticipatory pension 62
anticipatory pensions 23
appeal
A right to prefer an —- for
review in respect of any
order 43
APPLICANT
PARTICULARS OF —- 57
APPLICATION
—- FOR FAMILY
PENSION 56
—- FOR PENSION AND
COMMUTATION 55
Apprentices 4
—- and probationers 4
Attached Department 22, 25,
30, 48, 72, 79, 81
ATTRIBUTABILITY
PRINCIPAL AND
PROCEDURE FOR
DETERMINING —- TO
SERVICE OF
DISABILITY 49
audit office 22
Audit Officer 24, 25, 26, 27,
54, 61
If the pension papers are
not verified by the —- till
one month before the
retirement 27
The authority responsible
for sanctioning the
pension and the —-
should finalise the
pension case 27
authorities
—- administering local
fund 35
authority empowered to
sanction the pension 24,
25
AVERAGE EMOLUMENTS
Calculation of —- 59
Beginning
—- of service 4
bonus 5, 35
Brigadier
—- and equivalent 37
brothers 18
calculated to the nearest
paisa 12
Calculation
—- of Qualifying Service59
CALCULATION
—- of average
emoluments 59
—- OF PENSION 60
calculations of service and
pension 25
Captain
—- and equivalent 37
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cardiac disease
Guidelines for determining
attributability/aggravatio
n in cases of —- 51
Casualties 49, 50
—- due to disease 50
—- due to injuries 49
certificate 9, 10, 22, 23, 24,
25, 30, 31, 32, 56, 76, 89
consolidated —- 22
civil servant 6, 43, 89
absorption/employment
under an autonomous,
semi-autonomous/local
body 6
classification
—- of disability and the
criteria for determining
whether these were
attributable to service 47
CLASSIFICATION
—- OF DISABILITY 83
CLASSIFICATION OF
DISABILITY 48
Classifications of pensions 9
collateral evidence 25
Colonel and Lt. Colonel 37
Commencement 1
commencement of pension
Date of —- 26
Commercial employment
—- defined 39
COMMERCIAL
EMPLOYMENT AFTER
RETIREMENT 38
commissioned officers 38
committee
A —- comprising
Establishment
Secretary, Finance
Secretary and Law
Secretary 44
commutation 30, 31, 32, 33,
34, 58, 62, 72, 73, 75, 76,
77, 78, 87, 89
The date of application for
—- 32
Commutation
—- withdrawal of
application for 31
COMMUTATION
APPLICATION FOR
PENSION AND —- 55
REVISION OF RATES OF
—- AND ABOLITION OF
GRATUTTY 89
COMMUTATION OF CIVIL
PENSIONS 30, 72, 75, 76
COMMUTATION TABLE 33,
88
commuted portion of
pension
Restoration of —- 34
COMMUTED PORTION OF
PENSION
RESTORATION OF —- 87
COMMUTED VALUE OF
PENSION 60
Compassionate allowance
—- on dismissal/removal 3
Compensation pension 9
completion
—- of pension papers 22
compulsory
premature, voluntary or —
– retirement or death 26
condonation
—- of interruptions and
deficiencies in service 6,
8, 23, 59
Condonation 6
—- of interruptions and
deficiencies 6
conduct 43
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—- of re-employed
contract officers shall be
regulated by rules 43
consolidated
—- certificate 22
consolidated certificate 22
contemporary
—- evidence 23
contingent establishment 35
Date
—- of commencement of
pension 26
daughters 17, 18, 19, 89
death
premature, voluntary or
compulsory reitrement or
—- 26
deceased 17, 18, 19, 21, 48,
56, 80, 81, 89
deceased son 17, 19
declaration 25, 27, 65, 66, 76
DECLARATION
—- by applicant 76
—- proforma for 67
deficiencies
Condonation of
interruptions and —- 6
deficiency
—- of more than six
months 7
—- of six months or less in
the qualifying service 7
Deficiency in service
—- can be condoned
under this rule at any
stage in service up to
the 30th year 7
Definitions 1
delay 2, 22, 28, 30, 31, 46
— in the payment of
pensions 22
—- in timely sanction of
pensions 22
delayed cases 23
Department 25
DEPARTMENT
HEAD OF OFFICE/—- 61
departmental
—- or judicial proceedings
11
departmental proceedings
If the —- are not
completed within one
year 2
Deputation 5
disability
The classification of —-
and the criteria for
determining whether
these were attributable
to service 47
DISABILITY
CLASSIFICATION OF —-
83
PRINCIPAL AND
PROCEDURE FOR
DETERMINING
ATTRIBUTABILITY TO
SERVICE OF —- 49
Disability pension
—- and gratuity 47
disciplinary action
A re-employed contract
officer shall be liable to –
— 43
Dismissal/Removal
compassionate allowance
3
No pension may be
granted to a
Government servant on –
— 3
disqualifying spell 23
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District Accounts Officer 23,
65, 66, 69
District Health Officer 31
duplicate copy
—- of service book 23
duplicate service book 23
EMPLOYMENT UNDER A
GOVERNMENT OUTSIDE
PAKISTAN AFTER
RETIREMENT 39
enquiries 28, 67
Estate Officer 24
evidence
contemporary —- 23
extraordinary pension 20, 35,
46, 48, 80
EXTRAORDINARY
PENSION 46
False
—- statement 32
False statement 32
family 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 33,
34, 46, 47, 48, 52, 53, 54,
56, 58, 61, 62, 80, 89
Family
—- defined 18
family pension 20, 46, 48, 89
FAMILY PENSION 18, 56,
80, 89
APPLICATION FOR —- 56
FORM OF APPLICATION
FOR —- 80
Liberalization of Pension
Rules —- 89
father 18, 19, 21, 81
Finance Department 46, 48,
71
No extraordinary pension
shall be sanctioned by a
competent authority
except with the prior
concurrence of —- 46
Firm
—- defined 39
Fixation of Pay
—- of Military Pensioners
38
fixed in rupees 12
Forfeiture of past service 6
Form 10 (Pen.) 48
FORM 10 (PEN.) 80
FORM 2 (PEN) 53
FORM 3(PEN) 55
FORM 5 (PEN) 65
Form 5 (Pen.) 27
Form 5(Pen.) 27
Form 6 (Pen.) 30, 31, 32
FORM 6 (PEN.) 72
Form 6(Pen) 30
Form 6(Pen.) 30, 31
FORM 7 (PEN.) 75
Form 7(Pen.) 30
Form 8 (Pen.) 31
FORM 8 (PEN.) 76
Form 8(Pen.) 30, 31, 32
FORM 9 (PEN) 79
Form 9(Pen.) 48
FORM I (PEN) 52
Full pension
—- defined 2
Good conduct
—- is an implied condition
of every kind of pension
2
Government servant
—- retiring after attaining
the age of 60 years shall
be allowed commuted
value of pension 34
GRANT OF
ANTICIPATORY
PENSION 65
gratuity 2, 4, 5, 6, 9, 17, 18,
20, 21, 23, 24, 26, 27, 28,
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33, 34, 35, 38, 41, 46, 47,
52, 53, 55, 57, 58, 60, 61,
62, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70,
80, 87, 89
Gratuity 47, 54, 62, 65, 68,
79
GRATUITY
ANTICIPATORY
PENSION/—- 68
GRATUTTY
REVISION OF RATES OF
COMMUTATION AND
ABOLITION OF —- 89
Hardship 3
Hardship cases
Relaxation in —- 3
Head 25
HEAD
—- OF
OFFICE/DEPARTMENT
61
Head of Office 25
Head of the Department 23,
30, 48, 61
Head of the Office 17, 30
husband 17, 18, 19, 56
Husband 56
in lieu 5, 25, 68, 89
Indemnity 25
indemnity Bond 25
INDUCTION
—- /RE-EMPLOYMENT
OF OFFICERS OF
ARMED FORCES OF
PAKISTAN IN
AUTONOMOUS
BODIES UNDER
FEDERAL
GOVERNMENT 44
—-/re-employment of
officers of Armed Forces
of Pakistan in Civil Posts
40
INDUCTION/REEMPLOYMENT
OF
OFFICERS OF ARMED
FORCES OF PAKISTAN
IN AUTONOMOUS
BODIES UNDER
FEDERAL
GOVERNMENT 44
INDUCTION/REEMPLOYMENT
OF
OFFICERS OF ARMED
FORCES OF PAKISTAN
IN CIVIL POSTS 40
initiation 22
injury/disability pension 47
Inspector General of Police
—- may, without the prior
concurrence of the
Finance Department
sanction extraordinary
pension in case of any
member of the Police
Force who is killed in
action on duty 46
interruptions
Condonation of —- and
deficiencies 6
invalid pension 3, 9, 24, 31,
35
Invalid Pension 9
judicial 11
depatmental or —-
proceedings 11
leave 5, 6, 10, 11, 18, 22, 24,
39, 43, 49, 59, 66, 76
period of —- 24
Leave 5
leave preparatory to
retirement 11, 22, 39
leave rules
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The Armed Forces officer
re-employed on contract
shall be governed by the
—- 43
leave salary
pension and/or —-
contributions 24
Lieutenant 37
lump sum payment 30
Major
—- and equivalent 37
Major General
—- and equivalent 37
medical authority 30, 31, 32,
72, 73, 75, 76, 77
—- defined 31
MEDICAL BOARD
—- when reporting on
injuries 82
INSTRUCTIONS TO BE
OBSERVED BY THE —-
82
medical certificate 9, 10, 24,
31, 32, 76
medical certification 30
medical examination
In cae of premature
retirement on medical
grounds the requirement
of —- shall not be
waived 30
medical officer 31
Medical Officer’s fee for
examination 31
medical reports 31
Medical Superintendent 31
meritorious
Service rendered by the
government servant was
—- 7
Military service 5
mother 18, 19, 21, 47, 81
no demand certificate 24
No Demand Certificate 24,
61, 63
nomination 17, 18, 52, 53
If —- relates only to a part
of the gratuity 17
If no valid —- subsists 17
NOMINATION FOR
GRATUITY 52, 53
non-commissioned officers
38
non-gazetted service 25
normal retirement 26
notice of cancellation 17
—- takes effect from the
date on which it is
received by the authority
17
Office 25
OFFICE
HEAD OF —-
/DEPARTMENT 61
official evidence
Where no —- in respect of
service rendered in India
is available, an —- Bond
shall be obtained from
person concerned 25
officiating
Temporary and —- service
4
Ordinary Pension
—- defined 2
Overpayment 28
P.P.O. 63
PARTICULARS
—- OF APPLICANT 57
Pay
—- of the re-employed
officers of Armed Forces
42
pay bill 25
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Pay Fixation
—- of Government
pensioners re-employed
under the government or
under a government
owned/controlled
autonomous/semiautonomous
body or
coporation 36
—- on re-employment 35
Pay re-fixation
—- of officers of Armed
services 41
pension
—- and/or leave salary
contributions 24
Pension 2
any Government servant
or class of Government
servants who may be
excluded by a
competent authority from
the application of these
rules 1
any Government servant
who holds a post which
has been declared by a
competent authority to
be non-pensionable 1
any person for whose
appointment and
conditions of service,
special provision is
made by or under any
law for the time being in
force 1
any person who is not paid
from the provincial
consolidated fund 1
any person whose wholetime
is not retained for
public service but is
merely paid for work
done, such as
Government Pleaders
and Law Officers not
debarred from private
practice 1
Government servants
engaged on contract
which contains no
stipulation for pension
under these rules 1
Government servants paid
from contingencies or
borne on Work-charged
Establishment 1
PENSION
ANTICIPATORY —-
/GRATUITY 68
APPLICATION FOR —-
AND COMMUTATION55
CALCULATION OF —- 60
pension application 22, 23,
25
Pension Cases Disposal
Committee 23
PENSION PAPERS 54
pension payment order 25
Pension Payment Order 68
PENSION RULES
Liberalization of —- 89
pension/gratuity payment
order 24, 26
pensioner 2, 26, 30, 32, 33,
34, 35, 38, 39, 54, 67, 69,
70, 71, 78, 87, 89
Place of payment 26
PPO 24, 61
premature
—-, voluntary or
compulsory retirement or
death 26
PRINCIPLES
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—- AND PROCEDURE
FOR DETERMINING
ATTRIBUTABILITY TO
SERVICE OF
DISABILITY 49
probationers 4
Apprentices and —- 4
PROCEDURE
PRINCIPAL AND —- FOR
DETERMINING
ATTRIBUTABILITY TO
SERVICE OF
DISABILITY 49
proceedings
Departmentaal or judicial –
— 11
provisional 24, 25, 67
Qualifying Service
Calculation of —- 59
recommendation 24, 25, 41,
43
recovery
Government reserves to
themselves the right of —
— 2
re-employed 35, 38, 42, 43
re-employment 35, 36, 37,
38, 40, 42, 44
Re-employment 35, 40, 42
RE-EMPLOYMENT
INDUCTION/—- OF
OFFICERS OF ARMED
FORCES OF PAKISTAN
IN AUTONOMOUS
BODIES UNDER
FEDERAL
GOVERNMENT 44
Induction/—- of officers of
Armed Forces of
Pakistan in Civil Posts 40
RE-EMPLOYMENT OF
MILITARY PENSIONERS
37
re-employment on contract
42
register 27
Relaxation 3
—- in hardship cases 3
Removal or dismissal
—- from service 6
Renewal of Administrative
Sanction 31
Resignation 6
RESTORATION
—- OF COMMUTED
PORTION OF PENSION
87
Restoration of
—- 1/4th of full pension
surrendered for gratuity
or commutation is not
admissible in case of
family pension 34
—- commuted portion of
pension 34
—- gratuity 34
retirement
In the case of premature,
voluntary or compulsory
—- or death 26
retirement on medical
grounds 30
In the case of premature —
— the requirement of
medical examination
shall not be waived 30
Retiring Pension 9, 10
review
A right to prefer an appeal
for —- in respect of any
order 43
Review 23
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sanctioning authority 2, 21,
27, 30, 31, 32, 46, 54, 72,
73
SANCTIONING
AUTHORITY
ORDER OF THE —- 61
scrutiny 27
Second Lieutenant 37
seniority
Re-employed officers will
not have any —- 42
service 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10,
11, 12, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26,
30, 34, 35, 37, 38, 40, 41,
42, 43, 46, 47, 49, 50, 52,
53, 54, 55, 57, 59, 60, 62,
65, 66, 68, 69, 79, 80, 89
—- rendered by the
government servant was
meritorious 7
Beginning of —- 4
Temporary and officiating –
— 4
Service
—- in a temporary post on
abolition of a permanent
post 4
service book 22, 23, 25
Service Books 22
SERVICE QUALIFYING
FOR PENSION
Conditions of qualifications
4
Share of
—- widow or widows and
the child or children of a
deceased son 17
Short title 1
signature 32
sisters 18
sons 3, 5, 17, 18, 19, 20, 22,
23, 35, 46, 51, 53, 62, 69,
79, 89
Standing Invaliding
Committee 31
Standing Medical Board 31
statement
False —- 32
Superannuation pension 10
supervising the maintenance
of service books 22
suspension 5, 24
Suspension 5
T.A.
—- on tour and transfer
and to medical
attendance and
treatment 43
Temporary
—- and officiating service 4
Termination of contract 43
testimony 25
—- of contemporary
Government servants 25
the Essential Services
Maintenance Act 10
The pension payment orders
27
thumb and finger
impressions 31, 32, 55, 56,
67
title to receive the
commuted portion 32
training
The re-employed officers
will be eligible fo —- 42
Training
The time spent by a
Government servant in
an approved —- 4
Treasury 26, 27, 55, 56, 58,
65, 66, 69, 70
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Treasury Officer 27, 65, 66,
69
undertaking
—- from the government
servant 24
voluntary
premature —- or
compulsory retirement or
death 26
Voluntary retirement 10
W.P. Subsidiary Treasury
rules 27
widow or widows 17
wife
If the Government servant
had more than one —-
18
Withdrawal
Commutation —- of
application for 31
work-charged establishment
35
World War-II 5