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| (1) From and after the appointed date, a monthly deduction at such percentage as may be determined from time to time by the Minister shall be made from the full salary of every contributor notwithstanding that she may receive in that month as salary an amount less than the full salary or may not receive as salary any amount whatsoever. |
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| (2) The deduction referred to in subsection (1) shall be made by the Deputy secretary to the treasury and credited by him to the consolidated fund. |
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| (3) Where the deduction' referred to in subsection (1) not made from the salary of a contributor such contributor shall pay the Deputy Secretary to the Treasury, within thirty days after the receipt by her of her salary, such sum as is required to be deducted from her salary for each month under subsection (1) or where a contributor is on leave without salary, she shall pay before the thirtieth, day, of each and every month during the continuance of such leave, to the Deputy Secretary to the Treasury a sum equal to the sum that would have been deducted from her salary each month under subsection (1) had she not been on leave. |
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| (4) Every sum payable by a contributor to the Deputy Secretary to the Treasury under subsection (3) shall be a debt due from her to the State and Shall, anything in any other law, be recoverable with compound interest thereon at four per centum per annum. |
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| (5) The Deputy Secretary to the Treasury shall deduct from any moneys payable to a contributor by the State, any such debt due from such contributor to the State as is referred to in subsection (4). |
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| (6) Every officer shall, with in six months of the appointed date, elect to be a contributor to the pension scheme. Where such officer dies before the expiry of the period with in which she could have elected to be a contributor, she shall, if she leaves a husband or child or a husband and child, or a husband and children, be deemed to have elected to be a contributor to the pension scheme. |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts