(1) Service gratuity at the rate of two- thirds of a month‟s pay for each completed year of qualifying service may be granted to a sailor with less than fifteen years qualifying service, who is compulsorily discharged with eligibility to gratuity or who is discharged on the ground that his services are no longer required or who is discharged otherwise than at his own request having reached the stage at which discharge may be enforced :
Provided that the competent authority may, depending on the circumstances of the case, reduce the gratuity by an amount not exceeding one fourth of the admissible
(2) No gratuity shall be admissible to a sailor who is discharged at his own request.