section 6
Term of office and other conditions of service of Chairperson and Members
The Jammu and Kashmir Accountability Commission Act, 2002General200232 sections
Statutory text
- (1) The Chairperson and every other Member shall hold office as such for a term of three years from the date on which he enters upon his office or until he attains the age of seventy years, whichever is earlier: Provided that he may,-
- (a) by writing under his hand addressed to the Governor, resign his office ; or
- (b) be removed from his office in the manner provided in section 7.
- (2) On ceasing to hold office, the Chairperson and every other Member shall be ineligible for-
- (i) reappointment in the Accountability Commission ;
- (ii) any other assignment or appointment which is required by law to be made by the Governor by warrant under his hand and seal ; and
- (iii) further employment to any other office of profit under the Government of India or the Government of a State.
- (3) The salary, allowances and other conditions of service of-
- (i) the Chairperson shall be the same as those of the Chief Justice of the High Court; and
- (ii) a Member shall be the same as those of a sitting Judge of the High Court : Provided that if the Chairperson or a Member is, at the time of his appointment, in receipt of a pension (other than a disability or wound pension) in respect of any previous service under the Government of India or under the Government of a State, his salary in respect of service as the Chairperson or, as the case may be, as a Member, be reduced-
- (a) by the amount of that pension ; and
- (b) if he has, before such appointment, received, in lieu of a portion of the pension due to him in respect of such previous service, the commuted value thereof, by the amount of that portion of the pension :
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