Seventh Schedule SEVENTH SCHEDULESupplementary
[Section 59O(2)] 1. The staff rules made under section 59O may provide for any or all of the following— (a) regulating the amount of salaries, fees and allowances payable to officers and servants of the Organization; (b) regulating the grant of leave to such officers and servants; (c) authorizing the payment of all allowances to such officers and servants while on leave; (d) determining the remuneration to be paid to persons appointed to act for any such officers or servants during their absence on leave; (e) regulating the period of service of all such officers and servants; (f) (Deleted by Act A814); (g) determining the conditions under which gratuities or compassionate allowances may be paid to such officers and servants injured or to the surviving relatives of any such officers and servants, killed in the execution of their duty; (h) the establishment, maintenance and administration of a pension scheme for the provision of payments of pensions, gratuities or other allowances on superannuation, resignation, retirement or discharge of officers and servants of the Organization and for the establishment and maintenance of a pension fund; and (i) the establishment and administration of a superannuation scheme for the granting of such gratuities and allowances on death, superannuation, resignation, retirement or discharge of subordinate officers and servants of the Organization as may be deemed expedient and for the granting of such gratuities and allowances as may be deemed expedient to any one or more of the surviving dependants of any person who having been employed as a subordinate officer or servant of the Organization dies after having been superannuated or discharged or after having resigned or retired. (j) (Deleted by Act A814). 2. The following provisions shall apply to any staff rules made by virtue of paragraph 1(g), (h) and (i): (a) no gratuity, allowance or other payment payable under any such rule nor any right interest acquired by any person to any gratuity, allowance or other payment thereunder shall be assignable or transferable or liable to be attached, sequestrated, levied upon, for or in respect of any debt or claim whatsoever other than a debt due to the Organization; (b) any moneys paid under any such rule on the death of any person shall be deemed to be impressed with a trust in favour of the persons entitled thereto under the will or intestacy of such deceased person, but shall not be deemed to form part of his estate or be subject to his debts; (c) any person may by his will or by a memorandum under his hand appoint a trustee of the moneys payable on his death under any such rule, and may provide for the appointment of a new trustee of such moneys and for the investment thereof; (d) if at the time of the death of any person or at any time afterwards there is no trustee of such moneys or it is expedient to appoint a new trustee, such trustee may be appointed by the High Court or a Judge thereof; (e) the receipt of a trustee duly appointed, or in default of any such appointment, the receipt of the legal personal representative of a deceased person, shall be a discharge for any moneys payable on his death under any such rule; (f) any employee of the Organization who is otherwise entitled to any benefit under any such rule shall, if he is dismissed from the service of the Organization for fraud or dishonesty or misconduct, which involves pecuniary loss to the Organization, or retires from or resigns his office with intent to escape discharge or dismissal in consequence of such fraud, dishonesty or misconduct, forfeit and lose the whole or such part of such benefits as the Board may in its absolute discretion direct; and (g) with the approval of the Minister the Board may, in its discretion, in consideration of long or special services of any officer or servant of the Organization whose case does not come within the scope and effect of the Organization’s pension scheme or superannuation scheme rules, pay to such officer or servant upon his death, a gratuity or compassionate allowance on such terms and conditions as the Board may determine. 3. Staff Rules which are inconsistent with any terms and conditions of service approved by the Government in relation to officers and servants of statutory bodies shall have no effect.