Commutation Rule No.10: Commutation of provisional pension
10. Commutation Of Provisional Pension:-
(1) A railway servant to whom, pending assessment of final pension, provisional pension has been sanctioned under rule 91 of the Railway Pension Rules, shall be eligible to commute a fraction of such provisional pension subject to the limit specified in rule 6.
(2) For the purpose of commutation of provisional pension, the provisions of Chapter III or Chapter IV as the case may be, shall apply.
(3) The provisions of this sub-rule shall apply to an applicant who for the purpose of commutation of provisional pension is governed by Chapter IV.
(i) Where an applicant desires to commute a percentage of his provisional pension which works out to be not exceeding Six thousand rupees per mensem and in whose case it is expected that the amount which he would be entitled to commute when the final amount of pension has been authorized would exceed Six thousand rupees per mensem, his application shall be deemed, for the purpose of rule 23, to be for commutation of amount exceeding Six thousand rupees per mensem.
(ii)(a) Where the applicant does not indicate the possibility of his entitlement to commutation of pension exceeding Six thousand rupees per mensem on the determination of final pension due to him, he shall be treated as having applied for commutation of pension not exceeding one hundred rupees per mensem.
(b) If one the determination of final pension, the applicant becomes entitled to commute his pension up to Six thousand rupees per mensem, he shall not be required to undergo medical examination for payment to him of the difference between the commuted value of the pension originally commuted and the pension commuted subsequently.
(c) If on the determination of final pension, the applicant becomes entitled to commute a sum exceeding Six thousand rupees, he shall, for commutation of pension exceeding rupees Six thousand, be required to apply afresh in Form 2.
[Authority: RBE No.151/2013, No.2011/F(E)III/1(2)/13, 14.01.2013]