Modified application.
condition, benefit, payment, declaration or other thing shall be deemed to have been given, prescribed, granted, made or done, as the case may be, under the corresponding provision of the Schedule to this Order, and the provisions of that Schedule shail have effect accordingly. (2) Where any officer has before the commencement of this Order in pursuance of any provision in the limited compensation scheme or the general compensation scheme given any undertaking or given or received any notice or retired or received any benefit he shall, pro- vided that any conditions prescribed or deemed to have been prescribed by or under the Schedule to this Order are satisfied, be deemed to have given that undertaking, to have given or received that notice, or to have retired, or to have been granted or received that benefit, as the case may be, under the corresponding provision in that Schedule, and the provisions of that Schedule shall have effect accordingly.
(3) Any officer who has, before the commencement of this Order, been required under the provisions of the general compensation scheme, to retire to facilitate the localisation of the public service of Northern Rhodesia shall, for the purposes of the Schedule to this Order, be deemed to have retired under section 16 of the Zambia Independence Order 1964(a).
(4) The notice prescribed by the general compensation scheme to be given by officers who elect to retire from the public service shall be deemed to have been prescribed by the appropriate Service Com- mission under paragraph 4 of the Schedule to this Order; any declara- tion made by the Governor under the limited or general compensation scheme as to whether an officer has been or is required to retire in the circumstances described in paragraph 9 of that Schedule shall be deemed to have been made by the appropriate Service Commis- sion under that pargaraph; and any permission to retire given by the Governor under the limited compensation scheme in the circumstances described in paragraph 10 of that Schedule shall be deemed to have been given by the appropriate Service Commission under that paragraph.
(5) Any conditions or notices prescribed by the appropriate Service Commission for the purpose of paragraph 4 or paragraph 8 of the Schedule to this Order shall be not less favourable to any officer than any condition or notices prescribed by or for the purpose of the corresponding provision of the limited compensation scheme or the general compensation scheme as the case may be.
(6) Any compensation, gratuity, disturbance grant or interest paid under the limited compensation scheme or the general compensation scheme in Northern Rhodesia before the commencement of this Order may, if the person entitled to the payment so requests, be transferred to any one of the countries to which reference is made in head (a), (c), (d) or (e) of paragraph 15 of the Schedule to this Order.
5. If the Government of the United Kingdom and the Government of Zambia agree that, in their application to any officer, the foregoing provisions of this Order and the provisions of the Schedule thereto shall have effect subject to such modifications or exceptions as those Governments may agree, then those provisions shall have effect accordingly.
W. G. Agnew.
(a) S.L. 1964/1652.
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