Power of officers and servants to exercise option to become officers and servants of

Zilla Parishad.— Nothing in the foregoing provisions shall apply to any officer or servant of the State

Government before the appointed day,

4[or, as the case may be,

5[three months before the allotment date]], or such later date as may be prescribed by the State Government, intimates his option of not desiring to become or continue as an officer or servant of a Zilla Parishad, or as the case may be, an officer of the State Government, and thereupon he shall be permitted to retire from Government service or his employment under the existing board

6[or the Zilla Parishad] and shall be entitled to

such terminal benefits as compensation, pension, or gratuity, or the like, as may be prescribed by the State Government, which terminal benefits shall not be less favourable than the benefit he would have been entitled to

7[had his service ceased under the Government

8[or the Zilla Parishad] on the allotment date, or under the existing board on the appointed day.]