Abolition of certain Cash Grants and payment of compensation therefor.

(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in any law, custom, usage, sanad or decree or order of a court or other authority and subject to the provisions of sub-section (2) all cash grants specified in Part A of the Schedule which were payable or enforceable during the year commencing on the 1st April 1952 or any subsequent financial year, and all cash grants specified in Part B and Part C of the Schedule which were payable or enforceable during the year commencing on the 1st day of July 1954 or any subsequent financial year, shall be discontinued and cease to have effect- (a) in the case of cash grants specified in Part A of the Schedule,— with effect from the 1st day of April 1952; (b) in the case of cash grants specified in Part B and Part C of the Schedule,—with effect from the 1st day of July 1954. (2) The grantee whose cash grant is abolished under sub-section (1) shall be paid compensation as follows:- (i) in the case of a cash grant specified in Part A of the Schedule, a sum equivalent to four times the annual amount payable to the grantee; (ii) in the case of a cash grant specified in Part B of the Schedule, a sum equivalent to six times the annual amount payable to the grantee; and (iii) in the case of a cash grant specified in Part C of the Schedule, a sum equivalent to four times the annual amount payable to the grantee: Provided that in respect of each of the cases specified in column (1) of the Table below, the cash grant specified in Part C shall be continued subject to the conditions specified in each case during the period mentioned in column (2), namely:- [TABLE] (1) Where the age of the grantee, whether male or female, was not less than 60 years on the 1st day of April, 1954. Till the date of the death of the grantee (2) Where the age of the grantee was less than 60 years on the 1st day of April, 1954- (i) in the case of a male, or an unmarried woman if the grantee is incapable of earning a livelihood on account of being blind, deaf, dumb and mute, mentally deranged, crippled or paralytic; From the date of abolition till the date of the death of the grantee. (ii) in the case of a widow. So long as she remains a widow. (3) Where the grantee is a minor- (i) in the case of a male if such cash grant is his only source of income; From the date of abolition till the date of attainment of 18 years (ii) in the case of a female From the date of abolition till the date of marriage or the date of attainiment of eighteen years whichever is earlier. (3) Where the amount of cash grant received by a male minor before attainment of 18 years of age, or by a female minor before such attainment or marriage falls short of four times the annual amount of cash grant, the deficiency shall be made good to the male minor on his attaining 18 years of age, and to the female minor on her attaining 18 years of age or her marriage, whichever is earlier. (4) Where a cash grant to which this Act applies is subject to the rendering of any service, the grantee shall, with effect from the date of discontinuance of the grant stand released of the liability to render that service. (5) The compensation payable under sub-section (2) for the cash grants specified in Part A and Part C of the Schedule shall be paid to the grantee in such manner and in such instalments as may be prescribed; and the compensation payable for the cash grant specified in Part B of the Schedule shall be paid to him either in full or in annual instalments not exceeding twelve.