Section 3:
Salary.
1***There shall be paid to the Chief Election Commissioner 2
[and other Election Commissioners] a salary which is equal to the salary of a Judge of the Supreme Court:
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Provided that if a person who, immediately before the date of assuming office as the Chief Election
Commissioner or, as the case maybe, an Election Commissioner, was in receipt of, or, being eligible so
to do, had election to draw, a pension(other than a disability or wound pension) in respect of any
previous service under the Government of the Union or under the Government of a State, his salary in
respect of service as the Chief Election Commissioner or, as the case may be, an Election Commissioner
shall be reduced--
(a) by the amount of that pension; and
(b) if he had, before assuming office, 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.
Notes:
1. The brackets and figure (1) omitted by s. 5, ibid.(w.e.f. 1-10-1993).
2. Ins. by s. 5, ibid. (w.e.f. 1-10-1993).
3. Certain brackets, figure and words omitted by s. 5, ibid. (w.e.f. 1-10-1993).