(1) Invalid Pension may be granted to an employee who:-
(a) has rendered minimum ten years of service; and
(b) retires from the service, on or after the 1st day of November. 1993. on account of any bodily or mental infirmity which permanently incapacitate him for the service.
(2) An employee applying for an invalid pension shall submit a medical certificate of incapacity from a medical officer approved by the Bank.
(3) Where the Medical Officer approved by the Bank has declared the employee fit for further service of less laborious character than that which he had been doing, he should, provided he is willing to be so employed. be employed on lower post and if there be no means of employing him even on a lower post, he may be admitted to invalid pension.
(4) No medical certificate of incapacity for service may be granted unless the applicant produces a letter to show that the Competent Authority is aware of the intention of the applicant to appear before the medical officer approved by the Bank.
(5) The medical officer approved by the Bank shall also be supplied by the Competent Authority in which the applicant is employed with a statement of what appears from official records to be the age of the applicant.
31. Compassionate Allowance:,
(1) An employee. who is dismissed or removed or terminated from service, shall forfeit his pension.
provided that the authority higher than the authority competent to dismiss or remove or terminate him from service may, if -
(i) such dismissal, removal, or termination is on or after the 1st day of November, 1993: and
(ii) The case is deserving of special consideration. sanction a compassionate allowance not exceeding two-thirds of the pension which would have been admissible to him on the basis of the qualifying service rendered up to the date of his dismissal, removal. or termination.
(2) The Compassionate Allowance sanctioned under the proviso to sub- regulation
(1) shall not be less than the amount of minimum pension payable under regulation 36 of these regulations.