Para 14.7 — MSO

14.7 With a view to avoiding delay in the issue of Last Pay Certificate owing to Government dues remaining unassessed and unrealised on the date of retirement of a Government Servant, thereby holding up issue of his Pension Payment Order, most of the State Governments have adopted a procedure under which the last payment of pay etc. is released in such cases and Last Pay Certificate issued either

(a) on the retiring Government Servant furnishing a suitable surety or a cash deposit or

(b) after withholding a portion of gratuity. In such cases the Last Pay Certificate will contain the necessary mention of the surety etc. and the Pension Payment Order can be issued on the basis of such Last Pay Certificate. In cases where intimation in regard to furnishing of suitable surety or a cash deposit have been received by the Accountant have been appointed to decide them in the rules framed under Act XXIII of 1871. General or the pension sanctioning authority has recorded orders for withholding a portion of gratuity in page 3 of the application for pension, the production of Last Pay Certificate need not be insisted before releasing the pension and gratuity amounts.

In cases other than those mentioned above, where last pay certificate is not received and pension is payable within his circle of amount, the Accountant General should note across the Pension Payment Order that no payment is to be made until the intimation to the effect that the Last Pay Certificate has been produced to the Accountant General, is received from the Accountant General. The Last Pay Certificate received with a pension case should always be filed with that case. Where the pension is, however, payable in another State, the Last Pay Certificate should be sent to the Accountant General concerned and reference must be made to it before the Pension Payment Order is issued. The amount of deductions to be made monthly towards premia on subscription to the P.L.I. should be noted in the Last Pay Certificate, where necessary, before its transmission to the Accountant General concerned.