Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts Sri Lanka Consolidated ActsGrant of pension to certain Persons employed in the department of Marketing and Export Promotion of Handicraft and the relevant sections of the Department of Small Industries and subsequently employed by the Sri Lanka Handicrafts Board
| 2. Every officer or servant of the Sri Lanka Handicrafts Board established by the National Crafts Council and Allied Institutions Act, No. 35 of 1982 (hereinafter referred to as "the Board") whose service in the Board when added to his period of service in the Department of Marketing and Export Promotion of Handicrafts or a relevant section of the Department of small Industries amounts to ten years or more, not being a person who was on the day preceding the date of commencement of this Act, in receipt of or eligible to the payment of, a pension under the National Crafts Council and Allied Institutions Act, No. 35 of 1982, and whose substantive post in the Department of Marketing and Export Promotion of Handicrafts or a relevant section of the Department of Small Industries is declared to be pensionable under the Minutes on Pensions, shall be deemed to have held such post for the relevant period of service and shall be eligible for the grant of a pension under the Minutes on Pensions at the end of such period."relevant period of service" in relation to a person to whom this section applies, means the period for which such person would have had to serve in the Department of Marketing and Export Promotion of Handicrafts or a relevant section of the Department of Small Industries as the case may be to complete ten years' pensionable service had be continued to remain in such Department or such relevant section, after the date of his appointment to a post in the Board. |