Exercise of Option – 7th CPC Notification of Air Force Pay Rules, 2017 i.r.o. PBORs

(1) The option under the provisions to rule 5 shall be exercised in
writing in the form appended to these rules so as to reach the Air Force Central
Account Office New Delhi within one hundred and eighty days of the date of notification of
these rules, or where revision in the existing pay structure is made by any order
subsequent to the date of notification of these rules, within one hundred and eighty days
of the date of such order.

Provided that;

(i) in the case of a Warrant Officer/ Sergeant/Corporal/Leading
Aircraftsman/Aircraftsman who is, on the date of such notification or,
as the
case may be, date of such order, out of India on leave or deputation or
foreign
service or active service, the said option shall be exercised in
writing so as to
reach the Air Force Central Account Office New Delhi within one hundred
and
eighty days of the date of his taking charge of his post in India; and,

(ii) Where a Warrant Officer/ Sergeant/Corporal/Leading Aircraftsman/Aircraftsman is under suspension on the 1st day
of January, 2016, the option may be exercised within one hundred and eighty days of the
date of 

(2) The option, along with an undertaking appended to these rules,
shall be intimated by a Warrant Officer/ Sergeant/Corporal/Leading
Aircraftsman/ Aircraftsman to the Air Force Central Account Office New
Delhi.

(3) If the intimation regarding option is not received by the Air Force
Central Account Office New Delhi within one hundred and eighty days of
the date of notification of these rules, the Warrant Officers/
Sergeants/Corporals/Leading Aircraftsmans/Aircraftsmans shall be deemed
to have elected to be governed by the revised pay structure with effect
from the 1st day of January, 2016.

(4) The option once exercised shall be final.

Note 1.- Warrant Officers / Sergeants/ Corporals/ Leading Aircraftsmans
/Aircraftsmans whose services were terminated on or after the 1 st day of January, 2016 and who could not exercise the option within
the prescribed time limit, on account of discharge on the expiry of
the sanctioned strength, release, resignation, dismissal or
discharge on disciplinary grounds, are entitled to exercise option
under sub-rule (1).

Note 2.- Warrant Officers/ Sergeants/ Corporals/ Leading Aircraftsmans/Aircraftsmans who have died on or after the 1st day of
January, 2016 and could not exercise the option within the prescribed time limit, are deemed to have opted for the revised pay structure on and from the 1st day of January, 2016 or such later date as
is most beneficial to their dependents, if the revised pay structure is more favourable and in such cases, necessary action for payment of arrears shall be taken by the Air Force Central Account Office or Air Force Record Office or Directorate of Air Veterans New Delhi.

Note 3.- Warrant Officers/ Sergeants/ Corporals/ Leading Aircraftsmans/Aircraftsmans who were on Annual Leave or any other leave on the 1st day of January, 2016, which entitled them to leave
salary, shall be entitled to exercise option under sub-rule (1).