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(b) Weightage added to the qualifying service of Regular Armed Forces shall not (b)Personnel Below Officer Rank -Service pension shall be calculated for actual
be allowed in the case of Territorial Army Personnel. qualifying service in the same manner as in Regulation 50 for regular Personnel Below
Officer Rank of Army.
OPTION TO COUNT FORMER SERVICE
RETIRING/SERVICE PENSION WHO OPT TO COUNT FORMER MILITARY
185. (a)The service personnel who had formerly served in the regular Army, Navy or
SERVICE
Air Force and is now serving in the Territorial Army shall have the option either:
188. Individual who is re-employed/re-enrolled in the Territorial Army and had opted to
(i) to continue to draw military pension and retain gratuity received on cease to draw his service pension and had refunded the service pension and retirement
discharge from military service in which case his former military service gratuity together with service gratuity, if any, already drawn with interest and counts
shall not count as qualifying service for pension under these Regulations,
previous service as qualifying service for current engagement in Territorial Army as per
or
Regulations 185(a) (ii), on discharge from Territorial Army, shall be entitled to enhanced
(ii) to cease to draw pension henceforth and refund the gratuity, pension and retirement gratuity taking into account his total qualifying service i.e. previous
including retirement gratuity, if any, already drawn along with Armed Forces service plus current qualifying service in Territorial Army.
interest for the previous military service and count the previous
military service as qualifying service for grant of pension etc. TERMINAL GRATUITY
under these Regulations.
189. (a) Conditions for grant of Terminal Gratuity: - Terminal gratuity shall be
(b)The above option shall be exercised within 12 months of enrolment in Territorial granted to an individual who has completed a minimum of 5 years of aggregate embodied
Army. service in Territorial Army or 10 years engagement in Territorial Army (combined
embodied and non-embodied) and who dies during the period of disembodiment or who
(c) The option once exercised shall be final. If no option is exercised, within the retires in the following circumstances:
stipulated time, the individual shall be deemed to have exercised the option at clause (i)
above. (i) In the case of Officer or Junior Commissioned Officer:
(1) On disbandment/re-organisation /inter-zonal transfer of Units, provided
(d) The right to count previous service as qualifying service shall not revive until
there is no other Unit to which the individual can be transferred, or his consent
the whole amount has been refunded.
to a transfer is necessary under the rules and he refuses to consent thereto;
(e) On release from the Territorial Army either the service pension or service
(2) On reaching the prescribed retiring age;
gratuity and retirement gratuity as admissible under Regulation 184 or any higher pension
and retirement gratuity earned under Regulations 185 shall be payable. (3) On being declared medically unfit for further service due to causes neither
attributable to nor aggravated by military service;
NOTE:- The pension drawn till the date of enrolment in Territorial Army shall not be
required to be refunded. (4) On completion of tenure of appointment or service limits; or
MINIMUM QUALIFYING SERVICE FOR PENSION (5) When services are no longer required otherwise than on disciplinary
grounds;
186. All Territorial Army personnel (other than civil Government servants and civil
pensioners), who have a minimum qualifying aggregate embodied service of 20 years in (ii) In the case of Other Ranks;
the case of Officer and 15 years in the case of Personnel Below Officer Rank, shall be (1) On becoming entitled to receive his discharge under the Territorial Army
eligible for service pension. Act/ Rules;
(2) On being declared medically unfit for further service due to causes neither
attributable to nor aggravated by military service,
RATE OF RETIRING/SERVICE PENSION
or
187. (a)Officer -Retiring pension shall be calculated for actual qualifying service in (3) When services are no longer required otherwise than on disciplinary
same manner as prescribed for regular Officer as in Regulation 36. grounds.
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