SCHEDULE

AUDITOR-GENERAL'S (FUNCTIONS, POWERS AND TERMS AUDITOR-GENERAL'S (FUNCTIONS, POWERS AND TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF SERVICE) ORDINANCE, 2001 ORDINANCE XXIII OF 2001 An Ordinance to determine the terms and conditions of service, the term of office and the powers and functions of the Auditor-General of Pakistan [Gazette of Pakistan, Extraordinary, Part I, 17th May, 2001] F.No.2(1)/2001-Pub., dated 17-5-2001.---The following Ordinance made by the President is hereby published for general information:-- THE SCHEDULE [See section 3] PAY, ALLOWANCES AND PENSION The Auditor-General shall be--- (a) paid a salary which is twenty per cent higher than the maximum salary payable to an officer in Basic Pay Scale 22; and (b) entitled to all such benefits including entitlement pertaining to travel, as are admissible to a Minister of State; and (c) paid, for each completed year of service, a pension at the rate of twelve thousand rupees per annum: Provided that a person entering into the office of Auditor-General of Pakistan who was previously under Government service, shall stand retired from Government service and shall be entitled to pension earned during that service: Provided further that no provision herein contained shall have effect so as to give a person who. immediately before the date of assuming office as the Auditor-General, was in the service of Government less favourable term in respect of any of the matters aforesaid than those to which he would be entitled as a member of the service to which he belonged: - Provided also that the Auditor-General holding office immediately before the commencement of this Ordinance may opt for the provisions of the Pakistan (Audit and Accounts Order) 1973 (P.O.21 of 1973) pertaining to, pension, leave, retirement from service, or entitlements if they are more favourable to him and the provisions of the said order shall accordingly apply.