The eligible service shall be determined as follows:-
(a) In the case of "New entrant the actual service" shall be treated as eligible service. The total actual service shall be rounded off to the nearest year. The fraction of service for six months or more shall be treated as one year and the service less than six months shall be ignored.
Explanation. - In the case of employees employed seasonally in any establishment the period of "actual service" in any year, notwithstanding that such service is less than a year shall be treated as a full year.
(b) In the case of the "existing member" the aggregate of actual service and the "past service" shall be treated as eligible service:
Provided that if there is any period in the "past service" for which the contribution towards the Family Pension Scheme, 1971 has not been received, the said period shall count as eligible service only if the contribution thereof have been received in the Employees' Pension Fund.
Explanation.- For the purpose of this sub-paragraph the total past service for less than six months shall be ignored and the total past service for six months and above shall be rounded off to a year.
Retirement
