law: The Chief Election Commissioner and Other Election Commissioners (Conditions of Service) Act, 1991
  6. Pension  payable to 
  
  Election Commissioners.
  A person who, immediately
  
  before  the date  of assuming office as the Chief Election Commissioner or an
  
  Election Commissioner was in service of Government, shall be  deemed to  have
  
  retired from service on the date on which he enters upon  office as  the Chief
  
  Election Commissioner or an Election Commissioner  but   his  subsequent 
  
  service  as  the  Chief  Election Commissioner  or   an  Election 
  
  Commissioner  shall  be  reckoned  as continuing approved  service counting 
  
  for pension in Service to which he belonged. 1 Subs by Act 4 of 1994, S.6 (w.e.f 1-10-1993)
  Where  the Chief 
  
  Election Commissioner demits office [whether in any  manner specified  
  
  in sub-section  (4) or  by resignation],  he shall, on such 
  
  demission be entitled to--
  a  pension which  is
  
  equal  to the  pension payable to a Judge of  the Supreme  Court in accordance
  
  with the provisions of Part III  of the Schedule to the Supreme Court Judges
  
  (Conditions of Service)  Act, 1958, 
  
  (41 of  1958.) as  amended from  time to time; and
  such  pension 
  
  (including commutation of pension), family pension and  gratuity as are 
  
  admissible to a Judge of the Supreme Court under  the said  Act and  
  
  the  rules  made  there under,  as amended from time to 
  
  time.
  1*Except  where  
  
  the  Chief  Election  Commissioner  or  an  Election 
  
  Commissioner  demits  office  by  resignation,  he  
  
  shall  be deemed, for  the purpose  of this Act, to have demitted 
  
  his office if, and only if,--
  he has completed the term 
  
  of office specified in section 4, or
  he has attained the age 
  
  of sixty-five years, 1*xxx or
  his  demission of  
  
  office is  medically certified  to be necessitated by ill-health.