law: The Comptroller and Auditor-General's (Duties, Powers and Conditions of Service) Act, 1971
  6. Pension.-
  (1) A person who, immediately before the date of assuming office as the Comptroller and Auditor-General, was in the service of Government shall be deemed to have retired from service on the date on which he enters upon office as the Comptroller and Auditor-General but his service as the Comptroller and Auditor-General shall be reckoned as continuing approved service counting for pension in the Service to which he belonged.
  (2) Every person who enters upon office as the Comptroller and Auditor-General shall, on demitting the said office, be eligible to a pension of a sum of fifteen thousand rupees per annum which sum shall include the aggregate of all pensions payable to him and the commuted portion, if any, of his pension, and the pension equivalent of the retirement gratuity, if any, which may have been admissible to him under the rules for the time being applicable to the Service to which he belonged:
  Provided that if such a person is or becomes eligible, at any time, under the rules for the time being governing the Service to which he belonged, to a pension higher than the said sum of fifteen thousand rupees, he shall be eligible to draw, as pension, the said higher amount.
  (3) A person who, immediately before the date of assuming office as the Comptroller and Auditor-General, was in receipt of, or, had become eligible for receiving, a pension in respect of any previous service under Government, shall, on demitting office as the Comptroller and Auditor-General, be eligible to a pension of fifteen thousand rupees per annum which sum shall include the aggregate of all pensions payable to him and the commuted portion, if any, of his pension, and the pension equivalent of the retirement gratuity, if any, which may have been admissible to him under the rules for the time being applicable to the Service to which he belonged:
  Provided that if such a person is or becomes eligible, at any time, under the rules for the time being governing the Service to which he belonged, to a pension higher than the said sum of fifteen thousand rupees, he shall be eligible to draw, as pension, the said higher amount.
  (4) Any other person who is appointed as the Comptroller and Auditor-General shall, on demitting the said office, be eligible to a pension of fifteen thousand rupees per annum.
  (5) The person holding office immediately before the commencement of this Act as the Comptroller and Auditor-General shall be eligible to draw, at his option, pension at the rate at which it would be admissible to him if this Act had not come into force or at the rate specified in this section.
  (6) A person who demits office as the Comptroller and Auditor-General by resignation shall, on such demission, be eligible to a pension at the rate of two thousand rupees per annum for each completed year of his service as the Comptroller and Auditor-General:
  Provided that in the case of a person referred to in sub-section (1) or sub-section (3), the aggregate amount of pension admissible under this sub-section together with the amount of pension including the commuted portion, if any, of his pension, and the pension equivalent of the retirement gratuity, if any, which may have been admissible to him under the rules for the time being applicable to the Service to which he belonged immediately before he assumed office as the Comptroller and Auditor-General, shall not exceed fifteen thousand rupees per annum or the higher pension referred to in proviso to sub-section (2) or sub-section (3), as the case may be.
  1[(6A) Notwithstanding anything contained in the foregoing provisions of this section, a person referred to in sub-section (1) who demits office [whether in any manner specified in sub-section (8) or by resignation] as the Comptroller and Auditor-General after the commencement of the Comptroller and Auditor-General's (Duties, Powers and Conditions of Service) Amendment Act, 1984 (2 of 1984), shall, on such demission, be entitled to-
  (a) the pension to which he would have been entitled under the rules of the Service to which he belonged by reckoning his service as the Comptroller and Auditor-General as continuing approved service counting for pension in such Service; and
  (b) a special pension of seven hundred rupees per annum in respect of each completed year of service as the Comptroller and Auditor-General:
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  (6B) Notwithstanding anything contained in the foregoing provisions of this section, a person referred to in sub-section (3) who demits office [whether in any manner specified in sub-section (8) or by resignation] as the Comptroller and Auditor-General after the commencement of the Comptroller and Auditor-General's (Duties, Powers and Conditions of Service) Amendment Act, 1984 (2 of 1984), shall, on such demission, be entitled to-
  (a) the pension payable to him in respect of any previous service under Government; and
  (b) a special pension of seven hundred rupees per annum in respect of each completed year of service as the Comptroller and Auditor-General:
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  3[(6C) Notwithstanding anything contained in the foregoing provisions of this section, a person who demits office [whether in any manner specified in sub-section (8) or by resignation] as the Comptroller and Auditor-General after the commencement of the Comptroller and Auditor-General's (Duties, Powers and Conditions of Service) Amendment Act, 1987 (50 of 1987), shall, on such demission, be entitled to-
  (a) a pension which is equal to the pension payable to a Judge of the Supreme Court,-
  (i) if such person is a person referred to in sub-section (1) or sub-section (3), in accordance with the provisions of Part III of the Schedule to the Supreme Court Judges (Conditions of Service) Act, 1958 (41 of 1958) (hereafter in this Act referred to as the Supreme Court Judges Act), as amended from time to time; and
  (ii) if such person is a person referred to in sub-section (4), in accordance with the provisions of Part I of the Schedule to the Supreme Court Judges Act, as amended from time to time;
  (b) such pension (including commutation of pension), family pension and gratuity as are admissible to a Judge of Supreme Court under the Supreme Court Judges Act and the rules made thereunder, as amended from time to time.]
  4[(6D) Notwithstanding anything contained in the forgoing provisions of this section, a person who demitted office [whether in any manner specified in sub-section (8) or by resignation] as the Comptroller and Auditor-General, at any time before the 16th day of December, 1987, shall be entitled to the pension specified in sub-section (6C) on and from that date.]
  (7) If a person who demits office as the Comptroller and Auditor-General is not eligible to any pension under this section but is eligible to a pension under the rules for the time being applicable to the Service to which he belonged immediately before be assumed office as the Comptroller and Auditor-General, he shall, notwithstanding anything contained in this section, be eligible to draw such pension as is admissible to him under the said rules.
  (8) Except where he demits office by resignation, a person holding office of the Comptroller and Auditor-General shall be deemed, for the purposes of this Act, to have demitted such office as such if, and only if,-
  (a) he has completed the term of office specified in section 4, or
  (b) he has attained the age of sixty-five years, or
  (c) his demission of office is medically certified to be necessitated by ill health.
  1. Ins. by Act 2 of 1984, s. 2 (w.e.f. 16-3-1984).
  2. The proviso omitted by Act 50 of 1987, s. 2 (w.e.f. 1-1-1986).
  3. Ins. by s. 2, ibid. (w.e.f. 16-12-1987).
  4. Ins. by Act 51 of 1994, s. 3 (w.e.f. 16-12-1987).