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Pension Regulation Air Force 1961 Part - I

APPENDIX- III

(Referred to in regulations 52 and 166)

Regulations governing the payment of Constant Attendance Allowance

(Applicable to cases where the disability for which Constant Attendance Allowances is payable
is attributable to or aggravated by service rendered from the Ist April, 1946 onwards except service
rendered: -

(i) in connection with Hyderabad police action ; and

(ii) in Jammu & Kashmir operations where the initial award of Constant Attendance
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Allowance was payable before the 30 October, 1954).

1. The grant of Constant Attendance Allowance is subject to the condition that the pensioner has
no relative to look after him properly and that he actually employs an attendant to look after him.

Note :---- The term “relative” will not include a child who by virtue of his/ her studies is unable to
look after the pensioner.”

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(M of D letter No. 99765/AG/PS4(A)/10925/Pen-C, dated the 24 December 1963).
2. Constant Attendance Allowance will not be payable for any period during which the pensioner
is an inmate or an in-patient of a Government institution or hospital.

3. Payment of Constant Attendance Allowance will be made in arrears along with disability
pension proper. Payment will be made on the basis of :---

(a) a certificate as in Annexure I in the case of airmen; and
(b) a decleration by the pensioner as in Annexure II in other cases; which will be submitted
to the pension disbursing officer each time the allowance is drawn.

4. No pensionary award in respect of death of an individual in receipt of Constant Attendance
Allowance will normally be admitted except in cases where it is definitely proved to the satisfaction of
the pension sanctioning authority that although the disabled airman had relatives, they were unable to
look after him properly. Cases in which the pension sanctioning authority is not so satisfied, will be
considered by the Government of India on merits.

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