Section 17. Duration of Legislative Assemblies

17. Duration of Legislative Assemblies.— (1) The period of five years referred to in clause (1) of article 172 shall, in the case of the Legislative Assembly of Andhra, be deemed to have commenced on the date on which it actually commenced in the case of the Legislative Assembly of Madras. (2) The changes in the composition of the Legislative Assemblies of Madras and Mysore shall not affect the duration of either of those Assemblies as provided under clause (1) of article 172. 17. (1) Subject to the adjustment mentioned in sub-paragraph (3) of this paragraph, each State shall, in respect of pensions granted by the State of Madras before the appointed day, pay the pensions drawn in its treasuries and sub-treasuries. (2) Subject to the said adjustment, the liability in respect of pensions of officers serving in connection with the affairs of the State of Madras who retire or proceed on leave preparatory to retirement before the appointed day but whose claims for pensions are outstanding immediately before that day shall be the liability of the State of Madras. (3) There shall be computed in respect of the part of the financial year 1953-54 commencing on the appointed day, and in respect of each subsequent financial year, the total payments made in each State in respect of pensions referred to in sub-paragraphs (1) and (2) of this paragraph; and each of the States of Andhra and Mysore shall receive from, or pay to, the State of Madras the amount by which the total payments in the State of Andhra or the State of Mysore, as the case may be, for that part of the year or for that year exceed or, as the case may be, fall short of 36 per cent. in the case of the State of Andhra and 1⅓ per cent. in the case of the State of Mysore, of the total payments made in the States of Andhra, Mysore and Madras for that part of the year or for that year. (4) The liability in respect of pensions of officers retiring on or after the appointed day shall be that of the State granting the pension. The portion of the pension attributable to the service of any such officer before the appointed day shall be allocated between the States of Madras, Andhra and Mysore in the proportion of 62⅔: 36: 1⅓, and the State which has granted the pension shall be entitled to receive from the other two States their shares of this liability. In respect of any officer whose services after the appointed day were partly in one of the States of Madras, Andhra and Mysore as granted the pension and partly in one or both of the other two States, such other State or each of such other States, as the case may be, shall re-imburse the State by which the pension is granted an amount which bears to the portion of the pension of such officer attributable to his service after the appointed day the same ratio as the period of qualifying service of that officer after the appointed day under the State bears to the total qualifying service of such officer after the appointed day reckoned for the purposes of pension. Explanation .—Any reference in this paragraph to pension shall be construed as including a reference to the commuted value of such pensions.