GOVERNMENT OF ANDHRA PRADESH

ABSTRACT
PENSION-Amendment to sub-rule 50 of the Andhra Pradesh passed pension Rules,
1980-Issued.
FINANCE AND PLANNING (FW.PEN-I) DEPARTMENT
G.O.Ms.No.52

Dated:20-2-1984.
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Letter No.Rc/ENC/53/52678/82-1.Dated 4-9-1982,From Engineer inChief(Adms.Wing), Irrigation Department Andhra Pradesh; Hyderabad Addressed to the
Secretary to Government. Irrigation Department Government of Andhra Pradesh
Hyderabad.
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ORDER:
The following notification will be published in the Andhra Pradesh Gazette.
NOTIFICATION
In exercise of the powers conferred by the provision to Article 309 of the
constitution of India, the Governor of Andhra Pradesh, hereby makes the following
amendment to the Andhra Pradesh Revised pension Rules, 1980.
2. The amendment hereby made shall be deemed to have come into force on the 29th
October, 1979.
THE AMENDMENT
In rule 50 of the said rules, to item (iii) of sub-rule(5)the following shall be added,
namely:Provided that if the son/daughter of a Government servant is suffering from any
disorder or disability of mind or is physically crippled or disabled as to render him or
her unable to earn a living even after attaining the age of twenty-one years in the case of

the son and twenty-four years in the case of the daughter, the family pension shall be
payable to such son or daughter, the family pension shall be payable to such son or
daughter for life subject to the following conditions, Namely:1. If such so or daughter is one among two or more children of the Government
Servant, the family pension shall be initially payable to the children in the order ser out
in clause (III) of sub-rule (7) of this rule, until the last child attains the age of twentyone or twenty-four years as the case may be and there after the family pension shall be
resumed in favour of the son or daughter suffering from disorder or disability of mind or
who is physically crippled or disabled and shall be payable to him or her life.
2. If there are more than one such son or daughter suffering from disorder or
disability of mind or who are physically crippled or disabled, the family pension shall
be paid in the following order, Namely:(a) Firstly to the son and if there are more than one daughter, then younger of
them will get the family pension only after the life time of the elder;
3. The family pension shall be paid to such son or daughter through the guardian as if
he/or she were a minor;
4. Before allowing the family pension for life to any such son or daughter, the
sanctioning authority shall specify that the handicap is of such a nature as to prevention
him or her from earning his or her livelihood and the same shall be evidenced by a
certificate obtained from a Medical Officer not below the rank of a civil surgeon setting
out, as far as possible, the exact mental or physical condition of the child.
5. The person receiving the family pension as guardian of such son or daughter
shall produce every three years a certificate from a medical officer not below the
rank of civil surgeon to the effect that he or she continue to suffer from disorder or
disability of mind or continues to be physically crippled or disabled.
EXPLANATIONS:a) Only that disability which manifests itself before the retirement or death of the
Government Servant while in service shall be taken into account for the purpose of
grant of family pension under is sub-rule.
b) A daughter shall become ineligible for family pension under the sub-rule from
the date she gets married.
c) The family pension payable to such a son or daughter shall be stopped if he or
she starts earning his/her live hood.
d) In such cases it shall be the duty of the guardian to furnish a certificate to the
Treasury or Bank, as the case may be, every month that.
i) He or she has not started earnings his/her live hood.
ii) In case of a daughter, that she has not yet married.
(BY ORDER AND IN THE NAME OF THE GOVERNOR OF ANDHRA PRADESH)

D. SANKARA GURUSWAMY,
PRINCIPAL SECRETARY TO GOVERNMENT.