(1) Except as otherwise expressly provided in this chapter, any pension payable to or in respect of any person who, having been appointed to a civil service of, or a civil post under, the Crown in India, retired from the service of His Majesty before the¹[commencement of Part III of this Act shall, if it would have been payable by the Local Government in any Province if this Act had not been passed, be paid out of the revenues of the corresponding Province and in any othercise shall be paid out of the revenues of the Federation].

(2) Any pension payable to or in respect of any person who, having served in Burma or Aden, retired from an All-India Service, a Central Service Class I, a Central Service Class II. Railway Service Class I, or a Railway Service Class II, before the commencement of Part III of the Act shall be paid out of this revenues of the Federation, but save as aforesaid nothing in this section applies to any person who retired after service in Burma or Aden.

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1. Omitted, by the India (Provisional Constitution) Order, 1947.