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Exercise of Option – 7th CPC Notification of Navy Pay Regulations, 2017 in respect of PBORs

Exercise of Option – 7th CPC Notification of Navy Pay Regulations, 2017 in respect of PBORs

MINISTRY OF DEFENCE 
(Department of Defence) 

NOTIFICATION 
New Delhi, the 3rd May, 2017

6. Exercise of option.- (1) The option under the provisions to regulation 5 shall be exercised in writing in the form appended to these regulations so as to reach the Naval Pay Office Mumbai within one hundred and eighty days of the date of notification of these regulations, or where revision in the existing pay structure is made by any order subsequent to the date of notification of these regulations, within one hundred and eighty days of the date of such order. 
Provided that; 
(i) in the case of a Sailor who is, on the date of such notification or, as the case may be, date of such order, out of India on leave or deputation or foreign service or active service, the said option shall be exercised in writing so as to reach the Naval Pay Office Mumbai within one hundred and eighty days of the date of his taking charge of his post in India; and, 
(ii) where a Sailor is under suspension on the 1st day of January, 2016, the  option may be exercised within one hundred and eighty days of the date of his return to his duty, if that date is later than the date prescribed in this sub-regulation. 
(2) The option, along with an undertaking appended to these regulations, shall be intimated by a Sailor to the Naval Pay Office Mumbai. 
(3) If the intimation regarding option is not received by the Naval Pay Office Mumbai within one hundred and eighty days of the date of notification of these regulations, the Sailor shall be deemed to have elected to be governed by the revised pay structure with effect from the 1st day of January, 2016. 
(4) The option once exercised shall be final. 
Note 1. Sailors whose services were terminated on or after the 1 st day of January, 2016 and who could not exercise the option within the prescribed time limit, on account of discharge on the expiry of the sanctioned strength, release, resignation, dismissal or discharge on disciplinary grounds, are entitled to exercise option under sub-regulation(1). 
Note 2. Sailors who have died on or after the 1st day of January, 2016 and could not exercise the option within the prescribed time limit, are deemed to have opted for the revised pay structure on and from the 1st day of January, 2016 or such later date as is most beneficial to their dependents, if the revised pay structure is more favourable and in such cases, necessary action for payment of arrears shall be taken by the Commodore Bureau of Sailors/Naval Pay Office, Mumbai as appropriate. 


Note 3. Sailors who were on Annual Leave or any other leave on the 1st day of January, 2016, which entitled them to leave salary, shall be entitled to exercise option under sub-regulation(1). 

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