Para 14.8 — MSO

14.8 The production of Last Pay Certificate need not be insisted upon for the purpose of making or authorising payment of anticipatory pension , anticipatory gratuity (including death/retirement gratuity) and commuted value based on anticipatory pension. When a Government servant has retired from service a gazetted notification (if he was a Gazetted Officer) or a formal order (if he was non-gazetted officer) notifying/intimating the fact of his retirement from the specified date may, however, be awaited. 14.9 The production of the Last Pay Certificate is not necessary in the case of family pension granted under the Extra Ordinary Pension Rules and the liberalised Pension Rules also. 14.10 Except in cases for which other special arrangements may be sanctioned, periodical personal payments which do not come under the category of Pay and Allowances should be made only upon Pension Payment Orders issued from the Office of Accountant General in forms 71 and 72. 14.11 In the case of pensions sanctioned for a limited period, the cases for dates of monthly payment in both portions of the pension payments order from the date the pension is to be discontinued should be cancelled in red ink at the time the pension payment order is issued or reissued by the office of the Accountant General. 14.12 Accountants General should arrange for the speedy disposal of the applications for pension and for gratuities, which are invariably to be treated as urgent. A register of applications for pension should be kept in each (A&E) Office showing date of receipt and of final disposal of each.

Note:- In order to prevent the possibility of double claims, in the case of a nongazetted

Government Servant a note should be made in the Service Book by the Accountant General’s office (Pension verification Section) to the effect that a pension of a certain amount was admitted on a certain date. In case of a Gazetted Government Servant, the pension verification section should transmit this information to the Gazetted Entitlement Section or in case where the officer was serving in another Accounts circle immediately before retirement, to such Accounts Officer. The particulars should be noted in the Gazetted Entitlement Register.