Section 4. Salary.

1[4. Salary.- There shall be paid to the State Election Commissioner,- (a) during the period from the 1st day of January 1996 to the 31 st day of May 2000, a salary of Rs. 24,050 per month, in the scale of Rs. 24,050-650-26,000 ; and (b) with effect from the 1st day of June 2000, a salary of Rs. 26,000 (fixed) per month : Provided that, if a person who, immediately before the date of assuming office as the State Election Commissioner was in receipt of or being eligible so to do, had elected to draw, a pension (other than disability or wound pension), in respect of any previous service under the Government of the Union or under the Government of the State, his salary in respect of service as the State Election Commissioner shall be reduced, by the amount of such pension.]