(1) The Chairperson or a Member of the Claims Commission shall hold office as such for a term of three years from the date on which he enters upon his office and shall be eligible for re-appointment for another term of three years:
Provided that no person shall hold office as Chairperson or Member after he has attained the age of sixty-seven years.
(2) The salary and allowances and other terms and conditions of service of the Chairperson and Members of the Claims Commission shall be such as may be prescribed.
(3) A person who, immediately before the date of assuming office as a Chairperson or a Member, if––
(a) was in service of the Central Government, shall be deemed to have retired from service on the date on which he enters upon office as such, but his subsequent service as the Chairperson or a Member shall be reckoned as continuing approved service counting for pension in service to which he belonged;
(b) in receipt of or being eligible so to do, has opted to draw a pension, other than a disability or wound pension, in respect of any previous service under the Government of India, his salary in respect of service as the Chairperson or a Member shall be reduced––
(i) by the amount of that pension; and
(ii) if he had, before assuming office, received, in lieu of a portion of the pension due to him in respect of such previous service, the commuted value thereof, by the amount of that portion of the pension.
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(4) The Chairperson or a Member of the Claims Commission shall not––
(a) act as an arbitrator or mediator in any matter while holding the office;
(b) appear, act or plead before the Claims Commission on ceasing to hold office.