22. Extraordinary Pension

263. In the cases contained in rule 262, the disability resulting from the injury is equivalent to the volume of disability due to loss of any part of body, the extraordinary pension not exceeding the low rate of the one which is entitled to enjoy under the prescribed provisions may be granted by the State instead of award. However, such pension shall not be less than the low rate.

264. Under the following circumstances, the temporary extraordinary pension may be converted into permanent injury pension:
(a) the service personnel in receipt of the temporary extraordinary pension for injury has had applied for invalid pension on account of that injury;
(b) the temporary extraordinary pension has already been extended up to not less than five years;
(c) the medical board certifies that the disability of the service personnel does not seem to lessen significantly.

265. Extraordinary family pension shall be granted to the wife or husband or children of the deceased as mentioned under:
(a) if the service personnel dies by the act of somebody on account of special occupational hazard or from the injury resulting from special occupational hazard, the award and pension which are entitled to enjoy, an extraordinary family pension not exceeding the rate prescribed in Table (8) and (9);
(b) if the service personnel dies by the hand of somebody on account of occupational hazard or from the injury resulting from occupational hazard, an extraordinary family pension not exceeding the rate prescribed in Table (8) and (9).

266. If the deceased did not leave the wife or husband, the award which is entitled to enjoy under sub-rule (a) of rule 265 may be granted either to his children individually or collectively.

267. If the wife or husband of the deceased service personnel eligible for the extraordinary family pension and award contained in this provision is also eligible for the family pension contained in Chapter XXI, they have the right to choose their preference type of pension. The choice of the family pension contained in Chapter XXI by the wife or husband of the deceased service personnel shall not affect the entitlement of the children of the deceased service personnel.

268. If the deceased service personnel did not leave a wife or husband or children, the extraordinary family pension which isentitled to enjoy by for such service personnel:
(a) may be granted to his mother or father individually or jointly. Such award shall not exceed the rate under the stipulations which is entitled to enjoy contained inTable (8);
(b) may be granted, if failing the parents, to minor brothers and sisters who had been residing with and largely dependent on the deceased. The pension may be granted to them individually or collectively. The total amount of the extraordinary family pension granted shall not exceed the half of the extraordinary family pension which is entitled to enjoy by the wife or husband of the service personnel prescribed rule 265. Each share of extraordinary family pension distributed among the brothers and sisters shall not exceed the rate which is entitled to enjoy by a child who has a mother contained in Table (9).

269. The extraordinary family pension shall be granted from the following date of the service personnel’s death or the date fixed by the relevant civil service personnel organization. The periods for which the extraordinary family pension which is entitled to enjoy are as mentioned under:
(a) in the case of the grant of pension to the wife or husband or mother or father of the deceased service personnel, it is until the death or remarriage of the eligible person, whichever is earlier;
(b) in the case of the grant of pension to the minor son or brother of the deceased service personnel, it is until the date on which such eligible person attains the age of 18;
(c) in the case of unmarried daughter or minor sister, it is until the date of her marriage or the date on which she attains the age of 21, whichever is earlier.

270. The grant of extraordinary family pension shall cease when the surviving wife of the deceased remarries. However, when her husband dies in her second marriage and the head of the Ministry or organization or competent authority believes that she gets into financial difficulties, the extraordinary family pension may be regranted in full or in part.

271. When a claim for extraordinary pension or extraordinary family pension arises, the organization where the injured or the deceased service personnel was employed shall send the application for extraordinary pension to the Ministry and organization with the following documents:
(a) a full statement of circumstances in which the injury was received or the disease was contracted or the death occurred;
(b) the application for extraordinary pension (injury pension) filled out in Form (A) or the application for extraordinary family pension filled out in Form (B) prescribed by the Department of Pension;
(c) the medical report in the case of injured service personnel or the one who has contracted a disease;
(d) the medical report of the cause of death in the case of a deceased service personnel;
(e) the reliable evidence of the cause of the death if the service personnel lost his life in such circumstances that a medical report cannot be secured;
(f) the medical report by the Township Medical Officer or competent authority who is delegated to collect the evidence if the medical report as to the severity of the injury cannot be secured;
(g) the report to be sent to the Department of Pension describing whether the extraordinary pension is entitled to enjoy or not, and the amount of pension if it is entitled to enjoy.