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Widowers And Orphans Pension Act (No. 24 of 1983) - Sect 15

Special provisions relating to pensionable service

15.
(1) Where any officer who is a contributor to the Public Service Provident Fund established trader the Public Service Provident Fund Ordinance becomes a contributor under this Act on or after the appointed date, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Public Service Provident Fund Ordinance, there shall be deducted from the moneys payable to such officer under that Ordinance, an amount equal to four per centum of the aggregate of the salary of such officer for the whole of the period she contributed to that Fund under section 4 of the Public Service Provident Fund Ordinance. The amount deducted shall be paid into the Consolidated Fund and the period in respect of which such amount is deducted shall, for the purposes of subsection (2) of this section, be regarded as a period in respect of which contributions have been made under this Act by such officer.
(2) Where the pension payable in respect of a contributor under this Act is under section 14, calculated on the basis of the pension payable to such officer under, the Minutes on Pensions and the pensionable service of such person includes any service in respect of which contributions under this Act have not been made, the Director may, with the consent of such contributor, cause to be deducted from any moneys due to or in respect of such contributor from the State, an amount equal to four per centum of the aggregate salary of such contributor together with interest at four per centum per annum on such amount for the: whole of the period in respect of which contributions under this Act have not been made:
(3) Where it is impracticable to make a deduction under subsection (2) for the entirety or a part of the pensionable service in respect of which contributions have not been made by a contributor such contributor or where he is not alive, the widower or orphan of such contributor entitled to a pension under this Act in respect of such contributor may, if he so desires, pay to the Director a sum equal to the amount which was deductible in terms of subsection (2). If such payment is not made, the pension payable under this Act in respect of such contributor shall, in respect of each complete month for which the payment is not made, be reduced by l/600th of such pension.
(4) In this section " pensionable service" has the same meaning as in section 14.


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