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SUPREME COURT JUDGES (SALARIES AND CONDITIONS OF SERVICE) AMENDMENT ACT 2002

ACT NO. 8 OF 2003

[7th January, 2003.]

Short title and commencement.

1. Short title and commencement.-(1) This Act may be called the Supreme Court Judges (Salaries and Conditions of Service) Amendment Act, 2002.

(2) It shall be deemed to have come into force on the 1st day of January, 1996.

Amendment of section 16A of Act 41 of 1958. 2. Amendment of section 16A of Act 41 of 1958.-In the Supreme Court Judges (Salaries and Conditions of Service) Act, 1958, in section 16A,

in sub-section (1),- (i) in clause (a),- (A) for the words "family pension calculated at the rate of sixty per cent. of the pension admissible to him", the words "family pension calculated at the rate of fifty per cent. of his salary" shall be substituted; (B) for the words "and thereafter at the rate of half of the family pension so admissible", the words "and thereafter at the rate of thirty per cent. of his salary" shall be substituted; (ii) in clause (b), for the words "family pension shall be thirty per cent. of the pension admissible", the words "family pension shall be thirty per cent. of his salary" shall be substituted; (iii) before the Explanation, the following proviso shall be inserted, namely:- "Provided that in no case the amount of family pension calculated under this sub-section shall exceed the pension payable to the Judge under this Act.". ---- K. N. CHATURVEDI, Additional Secy. to the Govt. of India.