(1) A Muncipallty may, by special resolution, and if so required by the Administrator, shall appoint a Public Health Officer, an" Engineer or a Water-Worics or Electrical Engineer.
(2) Each such appointment and the salaiy and-1 ©the* conditions attaching thereto shall be subject to the approval of the Administrator.
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(3) If a Municipality when required by the Administrator to do so fails within the reasonable time to appoint any such officer as aforesaid, the Administrator may appoint him, and any officer so appointed shall be deemed to have bsen appointed by the Municipality^
25. (!) If an officer or servant of a Municipality is a person in the service of Government, the Municipality shall,—
(a) if his services are wholly lent to it, contribute to his pension, gratuity and leave allowance in accordance with the rules for the time being governing his conditions of service under Government;
and
(b) If it devotes a part of his time to the performance of duties on behalf of a Municipality, contribute to his pension, gratuity and leave allowances in such proportion as may be determined by the Administrator. '
(2) In case of an officer or servant of the Municipality who is not a government official the Municipality may subject to such conditions as the Administrator may by rule's prescribe, grant him leave, absentee or acting allowance and
(a) grant him gratuity on retirement; or
(b) establish and maintain a provident .on* afanrity fund and compel him to contribute thereto; of
(c) where such a fund has not been established of where such fund has been established but he has been contributing thereto for less than) the whole qf his service grant him a pension or gratuity or purchase or arrange for annuity for him on his retirement.
(3) If the sanction of the Administrator, a Municipality may grant a compassionate gratuity or grant or arrange for the pnrtEale of an annuity to any officer or servant injured otherwise than by reason of his own default iri the execution of his duty or where such injury results in his death, to the widow, children or other relatives dependent on him.
(4) Where an officer or servant dies in circumstances other than those referred to in suib-section (3), the Municipality may, with the sanction of the Administrator, grant a compassionate gratuity to the widow, children or other relatives dependent on him.
(5) A pension, gratuity or annuity shall not exceed the sum to which, under any rule or general or special order made by the Central Government, such officer or servant or his family would be entitled if the service had been service under Government.
(6) Nothing in this Regulation shall be deemed to prohibit the establishment erf provident fund for officers and servants of the Municipality at such rates and under Such conditions as the Municipality, may, by bye-laws fU and apportion for such performance.
Pension, leave allowances and provident fund.
16 TCIE GAZETTE OF INDIA EXTRAORDINARY [PART 11^- Fension etc., in case of service partly under government and partly und«r Municipality.
26. (!) If the person serving or having served under a Municipality has been or is transferred from or to the service of Government or is partly employed by the Government and partly by the Municipality, the Municipality shall contribute to his pensiori and leave allowances to such extent as inay be required by any rules made by the Government concerned in this behalf.
(2) The Municipality shall not, save with the consent of the Administrator dbpeiije '.vith, the services of any person employed as aforesaid without giving the Administrator six months previous notice.
Punishment, dismissal etc., of the Ppblic Health Officer and Engineer i