(1) An employee who is dismissed, removed or compulsorily retired from service, but is reinstated on appeal or review, is entitled to count his past service as qualifying service.
(2) The intervening period of interruption in service including the period of suspension, if any shall not count as qualifying service unless regularised as duty or leave by a specific order of the authority which passed the order of reinstatement.
CHAPTER IV EMOLUMENTS AND AVERAGE EMOLUMENTS
14. Emoluments.----The term ‘emoluments’ means pay as defined in Oil Industry Development Board Employees (Death-cum-Retirement) Gratuity Rules, 1983, as amended from time to time, which an employee was receiving immediately before his retirement or on date of death or which he would have drawn on the date of retirement/death had he not been absent from duty on leave or under suspension followed by reinstatement without forfeiture of service on that date.
15. Average Emoluments.---(1) Average emoluments shall be determined with reference to the emoluments drawn by an employee during the last ten months of his service.
(2) If during the last ten months of his service an employee had been absent from duty on leave for which leave salary is payable or having been suspended had been reinstated without forfeiture of service, the emoluments which he could have drawn had he not been absent from duty or suspended shall be taken into account for determining the average emoluments.
CHAPTER V CLASSES OF PENSIONS AND CONDITIONS GOVERNING OTHER GRANT