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Pension Regulation Air Force 1961 Part - I

247. A family pensionary award will be admissible if the death of an
officer was due to or hastened by --
(a) A wound, injury or disease which is attributable to his air force
service as a commissioned officer; or

(b) the aggravation by his air force service as a commissioned officer,
of a wound, injury or disease which existed before or arose during air
force service.

Rates of family pensionary awards

248. Special family pension and gratuity to the widow, children’s
allowance and education allowance to the children; dependants’ pension to the
parents, brothers/sisters of an officer will be at the rates laid down in section V,
chapter II for officers of the air force.

Rank for assessment of family pensionary awards

249. Rank for assessment of special family pensionary awards will be
determined in accordance with section V, chapter II of these Regulations.

250.

251.

SECTION III - AIRMEN
Sub-Section I – Terminal Gratuity

Extent of application

252. The regulations in this sub-section shall apply to all airmen of the
Auxiliary Air Force excepting those who are --

(a) civil government servants holding permanent appointments, and
(b) retired commissioned officers or retired civil gazetted officers.

Conditions for the grant of terminal gratuity

253. (a) Subject to the service rendered being certified by the competent
authority to have been satisfactory, a terminal gratuity may be granted to an
airman who has completed a minimum period of four years of aggregated “air
force service” and who is discharged in the following circumstances :-

(i) on disbandment or re-organisation of a unit provided there is
no other unit to which the airman can be transferred, or his

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