INTRODUCTION:
12.1 Benevolent Fund and Group
Insurance are regulated by the Federal Employees Benevolent Fund and Group
Insurance Act, 1969, as amended vide Act .No.XXV of 1975, Ordinance XLIX of
1980 and Ordinance No.VI of 1988.Broadly speaking, the Act applies to all civil
servants including-
(i) person appointed to the
Secretarial staff of the National Assembly or the Senate, or any officer or
servant of the Supreme Court or of the Election Commission, or
(ii) any officer or servant of such
body Corporate Institutions, Organizations or Autonomous Bodies as the Federal
Government may, by notification in the official Gazette, specify, and
(iii) any such person, officer or
servant, as aforesaid, who is on deputation elsewhere or on foreign service
within the meaning of the Fundamental Rules, or
(iv) undergoing study or training in or
outside Pakistan,
or
(v) on leave
(vi) under suspension;
but does not
include any person who-
(a) is an employee of the Railways?
(b) has attained the age of 60 years; or
(c) is an officer or servant of a
Provincial Government on deputation to Federal Government?
DEFINITIONS:
12.2 The family
for the purpose means-
(a) In the case of
male employee, the wife or wives and in the case of a female employee, the
husband of the employee, and
(b) The legitimate
children, parents, minor brothers, unmarried, divorced or widowed sisters of
the employee wholly dependent upon him.
12.3 The term 'Pay' includes
emoluments, which reckon for pension and the pay an employee would have drawn
but for his deputation, suspension or leave.
