17A. Power of Central Government to regulate the terms and conditions of service of officers
and other employees.—(1) The Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, frame
one or more schemes for regulating the pay scales and other terms and conditions of service of officers
and other employees of the Corporation or of any acquiring company.
(2) A scheme framed under sub-section (1) may add to, amend or vary any scheme framed under
section 16 [including any addition, amendment or variation made therein by notification under subsection (6) of section 16] with respect to rationalisation or revision of pay scales and other terms and
conditions of service of officers and other employees of the Corporation or of any acquiring company, to
provide for further rationalisation or revision of such pay scales and other terms and conditions of service
notwithstanding that such further rationalisation or revision is unrelated to, or unconnected with, the
amalgamation of insurance companies or merger consequent on nationalisation of general insurance
business.
(3) The Central Government may, by notification, add to, amend or vary any scheme framed under
this section.
(4) The power to frame a scheme under sub-section (1), and the power conferred by sub-section (3) to
add to, amend or vary any scheme framed under this section, shall include the power to frame such
scheme, or, as the case may be, to make such addition, amendment or variation in any scheme framed
under this section, with retrospective effect from a date not earlier than the appointed day.
(5) A copy of every scheme, and every amendment thereto, framed under this section shall be laid, as
soon as may be after it is made, before each House of Parliament.
(6) The provisions of this section and of any scheme framed under it shall have effect notwithstanding
anything to the contrary contained in any other law or any agreement, award or other instrument for the
time being in force.]