84. All officers, British and Indian, serving in the army, the navy,the Royal Indian Marine, or the Air Force of India, serving in India at the commencement of the new constitution, shall retain an their existing rights as to salaries, allowances or pensions or shall receive such compensation for the loss of any of them, as the Governor-General-in-Council may consider just and equitable, or as they would have received in like circumstances if the Commonwealth had not been established. Further all such officers, British or Indian, who were in receipt of pensions at the date of the commencement of the new constitution, shall continue to receive the same pension from the revenues of India.
