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Pension Regulation Air Force 1961 Part - I

281. (a) An officer may withdraw his application for commutation - APPENDIX I

(i) When the table of values applicable to him is modified (Referred to in regulation 29)
between the date of administrative sanction to the commutation and
the date on which the commutation becomes absolute, and the GOVT. OF INDIA, MINISTRY OF DEFENCE LETTER NO. 79(8) /58/I/387-S / D / PENSIONS
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modified table is less favourable to him than that previously in force /SERVICES DATED THE 21 AUGUST, 1958
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Reckoning of paid acting rank for purposes of retiring pension
(ii) When, in the case of impaired lives, the medical board
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recommends an addition of years of age to his actual age. An officer holding permanent commission who retires from service on or after the 29 July
1958, and becomes eligible for a pension, shall have his pension assessed with reference to a standard
(b) Withdrawal of application must be made by written notice rate of retiring pension of Rs. 620 per mensem for a standard period of qualifying service of 24 years,
dispatched within 14 days of the date on which the officer receives provided :-
intimation of the modified table or of the recommendation of the medical
board and of the capital sum payable in view thereof, as the case may be. (a) he has held the substantive rank of Squadron Leader for at least two years more than
the minimum period of service required to be served in that substantive rank in order to
Incidental expenses incurred be eligible for promotion of the substantive rank of Wing Commander under the
promotion rules in force at the time of his retirement ;

(b) he has been found fit in all respects for promotion to the substantive rank of Wing
282. No reimbursement of any traveling or other expenses incurred by an Commander; but has not been so promoted owing to the insufficiency of vacancies in
officer in connection with commutation of his pension shall be admissible. the substantive cadre.(This has effect from 21-8-1958).

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{Min of Def. Corr. No. PN/0183/246-S/D(Pensions/ Services) dated the 23 June
Commutation of anticipatory / provisional pension 1962.}

283. If some delay is likely to arise in the finalization of retiring pension of an and
officer, commutation may be allowed on the anticipatory or provisional pension, if
any, in issue subject to necessary adjustment when the final pension is (c) he retires with the paid acting rank of Wing Commander after holding that rank for an
sanctioned. The anticipatory / provisional pension will be commuted under the aggregate period of not less than four years, of which not less than three years shall be
same general conditions as apply to commutation of final retiring pension. To continuous.
ensure re-payment of the commuted value of the protion of an anticipatory /
provisional pension paid in excess, the Controller of Defence Accounts NOTE (1) .___ For purposes of clause (a) the required period of service in the
(Pensions), Allahabad, will obtain from the pensioner a declaration in the substantive rank of Squadron Leader will commence from the effective date from which
following form along with his application for commutation : - substantive promotion to such rank has been notified in the gazette.

FORM OF DECLARATION NOTE (2).__ For purposes of clause ( c) __

“Whereas the …………. (here state the designation of the officer (i) an officer will be deemed to have retired with the paid acting rank of Wing Commander
sanctioning the commutation), has consented, provisionally, to advance to me if his reversion to substantive rank immediately prior to retirement is solely on account
the sum of Rs ………..being the commuted value of a part of the anticipatory of the commencement of the furlough portion of his leave pending retirement or his
pension in anticipation of the completion of the enquiries necessary to enable the invalidation out of service. The period subsequent to reversion to substantive rank will
Government to fix the amount of my pension and consequently the part of not, however, be taken into account in reckoning the necessary service limits.
pension that may be commuted, I hereby acknowledge that in accepting the
advance, I fully understand that the commuted value now paid to me is subject to (ii) Any paid acting rank held by the officer higher than that of Wing Commander will be
revision on the completion of the necessary formal enquiries and I promise to equated to that paid acting rank.
have no objection to such revision on the ground that the provisional amount now
to be paid to me as the commuted value of the part of anticipatory pension
exceeds the amount to which I may be eventually found entitled. I further
promise to re-pay either in cash or by deduction from subsequent payments of
pension any amount advanced to me in excess of the amount to which I may be
eventually fount entitled.”

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