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(xii) Service Personnel Includes Officer and Personnel Below Officer Rank.

KIND OF PENSIONARY AWARDS

5. (i) Retiring Pension/Service pension
(ii) Retiring gratuity /Service gratuity
(iii) Special pension/Special gratuity
(iv) Invalid pension/ Invalid gratuity;
(v) Retirement gratuity/ Death gratuity.
(vi) Disability pension/ War injury pension
(vii) Ordinary family pension /Special family pension /Liberalized family pension
(viii) Dependant pension/Second life award of Special family
pension/Liberalized family pension
(ix) Family gratuity.

LIMITATION ON NUMBER OF PENSIONS

6. Except where otherwise specifically provided for, an individual shall not earn more
than one pension under these Regulations for the same service or post at the same time or
for the same continuous service.

GRANT OF PROVISIONAL PENSION

7. (a)(i) An individual against whom any disciplinary proceedings under the Army Act,
1950 or judicial proceedings are pending / instituted may, on his
retirement/release/discharge/invalidment, be authorized by the Principal
Controller of Defence Accounts (Pensions), a provisional pension not exceeding
the maximum pension which would have been admissible to him on the basis of
the qualifying service upto the date of retirement/release/discharge/invalidment,
or if he was under suspension on the date of retirement
/release/discharge/invalidment, upto the date immediately preceding the date on
which he was placed under suspension.

(ii) The provisional pension shall be authorised during the period commencing from
the date following the date of retirement/release /discharge/invalidment upto and
including the date on which, after the conclusion of the disciplinary or judicial
proceedings, final orders are passed by the competent authority.

(iii) No gratuity (including retirement gratuity) shall be authorised until the
conclusion of such proceedings and issue of final orders thereon.

(iv) No commutation of the provisional pension shall be permitted.

(b) Payment of provisional pension as mentioned in clause (a) (i) above, shall be
adjusted against the final retirement benefits that may be sanctioned to such service
personnel upon conclusion of such proceedings but no recovery shall be made where the
pension finally sanctioned is less than the provisional pension or where final pension is
reduced or withheld either permanently or for a specified period.

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