7th Pay Commission Army Pay Rules 2017 for PBOR – Exercise of Option

7th Pay Commission Army Pay Rules 2017  for PBOR – Exercise of Option – Personnel Below Officer Rank – Gazette Notification Ministry of Defence dated 03.05.2017

Gazette Notification for Defence regarding 7th Pay Commission Army Pay Rules 2017 for PBOR – Exercise of Option

[TO BE PUBLISHED IN THE GAZETTE OF INDIA PART-II SECTION 4] EXTRAORDINARY

MINISTRY OF DEFENCE (Department of Defence) NOTIFICATION

New Delhi, the  3rd May, 2017

6.       Exercise of option.– (1)    The option under the provisions to rule 5 shall be exercised in writing in the form appended to these rules so as to reach the concerned Pay Accounts Office within one hundred and eighty days of the date of notification of these rules, or where revision in the existing pay structure is made by any order subsequent to the date of notification of these rules, within one hundred and eighty days of the date of such order.

Provided that;

(i)       In the case of a Junior Commissioned Officer/ Other Rank who is, on the date of such notification or, as the case may be, date of such order, out of India on leave or deputation or foreign service or active service, the said option shall be exercised in writing so as to reach the Pay Accounts Office within one hundred and eighty days of the date of his taking charge of his post in India; and

(ii)      Where a Junior Commissioned Officer/ Other Rank is under suspension on  the  1st   day  of  January,  2016,  the  option  may  be  exercised  within  one hundred and eighty days of the date of his return to his duty, if that date is later than the date prescribed in this sub-rule;

(2)      The  option,  along  with  an  undertaking  appended  to  these  rules,  shall  be intimated by a Junior Commissioned Officer/ Other Rank to the Pay Accounts Office.

(3)      If the intimation regarding option is not received by the Pay Accounts Office within one hundred and eighty days of the date of notification of these rules, the Junior Commissioned Officer/ Other Rank shall be deemed to have elected to be governed by the revised pay structure with effect from the 1st day of January, 2016.

(4)      The option once exercised shall be final.

Note 1.–       Junior Commissioned Officers/ Other Ranks whose services were terminated on or after the 1st day of January, 2016 and who could not exercise the option within the prescribed time limit, on account of discharge on the expiry of the sanctioned strength, release, resignation, dismissal or discharge on disciplinary grounds, are entitled to exercise option under sub-rule (1).

Note 2.–       Junior Commissioned Officers/ Other Ranks who have died on or after the 1st  day of January, 2016 and could not exercise the option within the prescribed time limit, are deemed to have opted for the revised pay structure on and from the 1st  day of January, 2016 or such later date as is beneficial to their dependents, if the revised pay structure is more favourable and in such cases, necessary action for payment of arrears shall be taken by the Pay Accounts Office or Depot Battalion or Record Office.

Note 3.–       Junior Commissioned Officers/ Other Ranks who were on Annual Leave or any other leave on the 1st  day of January, 2016, which entitled them to leave salary, shall be entitled to exercise option under sub-rule (1).
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