8 accounts APTC-VOL-I

S.R. 86, T.R. 16] Withdrawal of Moneys from the Govt. Account 257
in India to another, provided that the Accountant-General should, before ordering any
transfer of a Political Pension, obtain the concurrence of the authority empowered to
permit a change of residence by the Political Pensioner. The collectors of Kurnool and
Krishna may arrange, in consultation with the Accountant-General, for transfer of the
payment of the pension of any Political Pensioner who may be duly permitted to change
his residence to any place within or outside the State. The Paymaster, Carnatic Stipends,
may exercise the same power in regard to the Carnatic stipendiaries.
Subsidiary Rules under Treasury Rule 16 - contd.
S.R. 85. Renewal of Pension Payment Orders :—(a) The Treasury Officer is
authorized to renew a Pension Payment Order without reference to the Accountant-
General when the entries on the reverse of the either the pensioner’s or the disburser’s
half are completely filled up or the pensioner’s half is lost, worn or torn. When the
renewal is due to loss of the Original Pension Payment Order, a fee of one rupee shall be
levied on the pensioner for the Duplicate Pension Payment Order. Every renewed
Pension Payment Order shall bear the old number and date, and the specimen signature or
finger-prints of the pensioner and the copy of the photograph where it is kept shall be cut
out from the disburser’s half of the old Pension Payment Order and pasted on the
disburser’s half of the New Pension Payment Order. The Treasury Officer shall retain the
old Pension Payment Orders for three years and then destroy them. A note of the issue of
every new Pension Payment Order shall also be made in the remarks column of the
Register of Pension Payment Orders.
(G.O.Ms.No. 282, Fin., Dt. 21-11-1991)
Note :—In the case pensions paid at Sub-treasuries, the Pension Payment Orders
shall be returned to the District Treasury for renewal.
(b) When a Treasury Officer has issued a new Pension Payment Order in place of
a lost one, he shall, by strict observance of Subsidiary Rule 72(b), see that no payment is
made on the Pension Payment Order alleged to have been lost.
Lapse of Service Pensions
“S.R. 86. (a) If a pension payable in India remains undrawn for more than one
year, the pension shall cease to be payable. (Art. 956, Civil Service Regulations).
(b) If the pensioner afterwards appears, the disbursing Officer may renew his
payments if no objection is found as a result of police enquiry envisaged in Instruction
60. He shall not, however, pay the arrears, if the pension in arrears is to be paid for the
first time, or if the amount of arrears exceed Rs. 5,000/-, without the previous sanction of
the authority which sanctioned the pension or when the pension was sanctioned by the
Government the previous sanction of any subordinate authority to which the Government
have delegated the power to sanction the payment of such arrears, (Article 957, Civil
Service Regulations). The disbursing Officer make the payments if the amount of arrears
does not exceed Rs. 2,500/- or with the previous sanction of the Collector of the District
in which the pension disbursing Officer is located if it exceeds Rs. 2,500/- but does not
exceed Rs. 5,000/-. If however, the Accountant-General considers that the suspension of
payment was due to an error of neglect on the part of any Government Officer, he may
direct that the arrears be paid on his own authority”.
(Subs. by G.O.Ms.No. 295, Fin. & Pl. (A&L), Dt. 17-7-1972)
“(c) The pension disbursing Officer shall send the sanction order obtained from
the pension sanctioning authority along with the voucher for arrears of pension to the