(a) ‘Accounts Officer’ means the Financial Adviser and Chief Accounts Officer of the Board.
(b) ‘Board’ means the Oil Industry Development Board;
(c) ‘Chairman’ means the Chairman of the Board;
(d) ‘Child’ means a child of an employee who is under twenty five years of age;
(e) ‘competent authority’ means the Board and includes any authority specified as such in the Oil Industry Development Board Employees (General Conditions of Service) Rules, 1984, as amended from time to time;
(f) ‘employee’ means and employee of the Board;
(g) ‘foreign service’ means service in which an employee of the Board receives his pay with the sanction of the Board from any source other than the Oil industry Development Fund;
(h) ‘form’ means a form appended to these rules;
(i) ‘minor’ means a person who has not completed the age of eighteen years;
(j) ‘pension disbursing authority’ means the Accounts Officer;
(k) ‘pension sanctioning authority’ means the appointing authority as defined in clause (b) of rule 2 of the Oil industry Development Board Employees’ (General Conditions of Service) Rules, 1984, as amended from time to time;
(l) ‘Secretary’ means the Secretary of the Board;
(m) ‘qualifying service’ means service rendered while on duty or otherwise which shall be taken into account for the purpose of pensions and gratuities admissible under these rules.
CHAPTER II GENERAL CONDITIONS
4. Regulation of claims to pension or family pension.-----(1) Any claim to pension or family pension shall be regulated by the provisions of these rules in force at the time when an employee retires or is retired or is discharged or is allowed to resign from service or dies, as the case may be.
(2) The day on which an employee retires or is retired or is discharged or is allowed to resign from service, as the case may be, shall be treated as a working day. The date of death shall also be treated as working day.
(3) In the case of an employee who is retired prematurely or who retires voluntarily the date of retirement shall be treated as a non working day.
5. Limitation on number of pension.-----(1) An employee shall not earn two pensions in the same service or post at the same time or by the same continuous service.
(2) Except in the case of Military pensioner reemployed in the Board, a Government servant or an employee of the Board who, having retired on a Superannuation or retiring pension, is subsequently reemployed shall not be entitled to a separate pension or gratuity for the period of his reemployment.
6. Pension subject to future good conduct.--------(1) Future Good conduct shall be an implied condition of every grant of pension and its continuance under these rules. The pension sanctioning authority, may by order in writing, withhold or withdraw a pension or part thereof, whether permanently or for a specified period, if the pensioner is convicted of a serious crime or is found guilty of grave misconduct, subject to the condition that the balance of the pension that can be drawn by such pensioner shall be the same as may be prescribed by the Central Government from time to time for its employees.
(2) A reasonable opportunity by issue of notice shall be given to the pensioner before ordering any such withholding or withdrawing of the pension.
7. Right of Board to withhold or withdraw pension.-------(1). The Board shall have the right of withholding or withdrawing a pension or part thereof, whether permanently or for a specified period and of ordering recovery from a pension of the whole or part of any pensionery loss caused to the Board if in any department or official proceedings, the pensioner is found guilty of grave misconduct negligence during the period of the service, including service rendered upon re-employment after retirement.
(2) If the departmental proceedings are not instituted while the employee was in service, Whether before his retirement or during his reemployment, the same shall not be instituted without the sanction of the Board.
No such proceedings shall be instituted in respect of any event which took place more than four years before such institution.
(3) If the Board orders recovery of pecuniary loss caused to the Board from pension, the recovery shall not ordinarily be made at a rate exceeding one-third of the pension admissible on the date of retirement of an employee.
8. Option to the existing staff.___(1) The employees who are in service on the date of commencement of these rules shall have the option to elect to pensionery benefits under these rules or continue to be governed under the Oil Industry Development Board Employees (Contributory Provident Fund) Rules, 1978, within a period of six months from such date. The employees who do not exercise the option within that period shall be deemed to have opted to pensionery benefits under these rules.
(2) In case an employee opts for pensionery benefits, the amount standing to the credit of his account, on the date of his exercising such option, as Board’s contribution to the contributory provident fund, together with interest thereon, shall be transferred back from that account to the Oil Industry Development Fund.
9. Employees transferred from services and posts to which these rules do not apply :
(1) An employee who is transferred permanently from a service or post to which these rules do not apply shall become subject to these rules;
Provided that it shall be open to him, within six months of the date of issue the order of his permanent transfer, or if he is leave on that day, then within six months of his return from leave, whichever is later to elect to be governed by the Oil Industry Development Board Employees (Contributory Provident Fund) Rules, 1978 in respect of service rendered in the Board and by the retirement benefits to which he was subject immediately before the date of his transfer in respect of service rendered by him in the previous employment.
(2) The pensionery retirement benefits for the past service shall be regulated in accordance with the relevant orders/ instructions issued by the Central Government/ Board from time to time.
3. The option, once exercised, shall be final.
CHAPTER III QUALIFYING SERVICE
10. Commencement of qualifying service.----(1) The qualifying service of an employee shall commence from the date he takes charge of the post on the regular establishment of the Board to which he is appointed on a regular basis.
(2) In the case of an employee belonging to Central State Government or any other public sector organisation appointed on deputation to a post under the Board is permanently transferred to a service or post to which these rules apply, the continuous service rendered under that Government/Organisation, if any, shall count as qualifying service.
(3) All leave during service for which leave salary is payable, all extraordinary leave granted on medical certificate and all extraordinary leave granted due to inability of the employee to join or rejoin duty on account of civil commotion or for prosecuting higher technical and scientific studies, shall count as qualifying service.
11. Counting of service on contract.----(1) A person who is initially engaged by the Board on a contract for a specified period and is subsequently appointed to the same or another post on regular basis on a pensionable post without interruption of duty , may opt either__.
(a) to retain the Board’s contribution to Contributory Provident Fund with interest thereon including any other benefit for that service;
OR
(b) to agree to refund to the Board or to forego the monetary benefits aforesaid and count in lieu thereof the service for which the monetary benefits may have been payable.
(2) The option shall be exercised by the concerned employee within a period of three months from the date of issue of order of appointment to a pensionable post.
(3) If no option is received within the prescribed period, the employee shall be deemed to have opted for the retention of the Contributory Provident Fund benefits payable or paid on account of service rendered on contract.