13. ALL INDIA SERVICES (DEATH-CUM-RETIREMENT BENEFITS) RULES, 1958 — All-India Services Act, 1951

13. ALL INDIA SERVICES (DEATH-CUM-RETIREMENT BENEFITS) RULES, 1958 In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of Section 3 of the All India Services Act. 1951(61 of 1951) , the Central Government; after consultation with the Governments of the States concerned, hereby makes the following rules, namely:- 1.Short title and application 1(1) These rules may be called the All India Services (Death-cum-Retirement Benefits) Rules, 1958. 1(2)(a) Subject to the provisions of clause (b) of this sub-rule, they shall apply to all persons who retired from the Service on or after the 29th October, 1951. 11(2)(b) They do not apply to those members of the Service who were promoted to the Service from the State Services or were appointed to the Service under the Indian Administrative Service (Extension to States) Scheme or the Indian Police Service (Extension to States) Scheme and who, under orders issued by the Central Government before the coming into force of those rules, were given an option in the matter of pension rules, by which they would be governed and who in exercise of that option, chose to be governed by the Superior Civil Services Rules, the Civil Service Regulations, or the pension rules of the State concerned, as the case may be: Provided that the members of the Service to whom these rules do not apply, and who were in service on the Ist January, 1964, may opt to be governed by these rules in accordance with such orders as may be issued by the Central Government in this behalf. 2s9 Provided further that nothing contained in these rules shall applied to the persons appointed to the service on or after the 1St day of January 2004.' 2. Definitions 261) In these rules, unless the context otherwise requires: 32(1)(a) Accounts Officer" means an officer, whatever hi