Article 370 was amended and Articles 370-A and 371 were deleted with effect from April 1, 1961 in notification no. G-2-3946/X 904(9) 1960, dated March 29, 1962. Prior to that date these articles stood as follows:

370. An officer transferred from a temporary to a permanent appointment can count his service in the temporary office, if though created experimentally temporarily, it eventually becomes permanent.

370-A A Government servant may count as service qualifying for pension, half of the period of continuous temporary service rendered, after attaining the minimum qualifying age and immediately prior to confirmation in a pensionable post.

NOTE—For purposes of this article any period spent on extraordinary leave, and any temporary service or portion thereof which already counts for pension under the other existing rules, shall not be taken into account.

371. An officer without a substantive appointment officiating in an office which is vacant, or the permanent incumbent of which does not draw any part of the pay or count service, may, if he is confirmed without interruption in his service, count his officiating service.