(a) If, a retired or non-official Chairperson is appointed, he/she shall receive a consolidated honorarium of ` 40,000 per month.
(b) The Members shall receive a consolidated honorarium of ` 25,000 per month.
(c) The Chairperson and the Members shall be eligible for such travelling allowances admissible to the Grade-I Officer of the Government of Puducherry during the sittings.
(d) The honorarium and other allowances shall be defrayed out of the Consolidated fund of the Government.
(e) Chairperson and the Member may—
(i) by writing under his hand and addressed to the Government, resign their Office any time;
(ii) be removed from their Office in accordance with provisions of sub-section (9) of section (16) of the Act.
Provided that the Chairperson or a Member shall not be removed from their Office on the ground specified in sub-section (10) of section (16) of the Act except on a inquiry held by the Selection Committee.
(f) Before appointment, Chairperson and Members shall have to give an undertaking that he/she does not and will not have any such financial or other interests as is likely to affect prejudicially their functions as such Member.
(g) The terms and conditions of the service of the Chairperson or Members shall not be varied to their disadvantage during their tenure of Office.
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(h) Every vacancy caused by resignation and removal of the Chairperson and their Members of the Commission under sub-rule (f) or otherwise shall be filled by fresh appointment.
(i) Where any such vacancy occurs in the Office of the Chairperson, the senior most (in order of appointment) Member, holding Office for the time being, shall discharge the functions of the Chairperson until a person appointed to fill such vacancy assumes the Office of the Chairperson.
(j) When the Chairperson, is unable to discharge the functions owing to absence, illness or any other cause, the senior most (in order of appointment) Member, holding Office for the time being, shall discharge the functions of the Chairperson until the day on which the Chairperson resumes the charge of his functions.
(k) The Chairperson or any member ceasing to hold Office as such shall not hold any appointment in or be connected with the management or administration of an organisation which have been the subject of any proceeding under the act during his/her tenure for a period of five years from the date on which he/she ceases to hold such Office.