(4) Whenever any payment of compensation becomes due under paragraph 3, paragraph 9(1)(b) or paragraph 10 of this Schedule interest at the rate of five per centum per annum shall accrue from day to day-
(a) in cases where the compensation has not been finally assessed, during the period between the date on which the amount of the compensation was last due to be assessed and the date on which the next following assessment is to be made;
(b) in cases where the compensation has been finally assessed, during the period between the date on which that payment of compensation became due and the date on which the next following payment of compensation will become due,
upon any part of the compensation that did not then become payable and that interest shall become payable at the end of the period during which it accrued:
Provided that in the case of compensation payable under paragraph 10 of this Schedule the period during which interest accrues shall begin at the date upon which the first payment of compensation becomes payable under paragraph 10(4)(a) of this Schedule or the date on which the officer was given permission to retire under that paragraph, whichever is the later.
and
14. (1) When disciplinary proceedings are taken, or are about to Disciplinary be taken, against any person who is serving as an entitled officer and proceedings those proceedings might lead to his dismissal, the payment of com- dismissal. pensation under this Schedule and interest thereon shall be withheld pending the determination of those proceedings.
(2) Where any person who is serving as an entitled officer is dis- missed, any compensation that he has not already received may, with the approval of the appropriate Service Commission, be withheld.
15. Any compensation, gratuity, disturbance grant or interest pay- Place of able under this Schedule to an officer or to his personal representatives payment or dependants shall be paid, in accordance with any request made and rate of from time to time by such officer, his personal representatives or his dependants, as the case may be, in any of the following countries-
(a) in the United Kingdom;
(b) in Zambia ;
(c) in the country from which the officer was recruited or where
he intends to reside;
(d) in the case of payment to the personal representatives of an officer or his dependants, in the country in which the personal representatives or the dependants, as the case may be, reside; or (e) in such other country as the officer or his personal representa- tives or dependants may, with the concurrence of the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Finance, select,
in the currency of the country in which payment is to be made; and, where payment is to be made in a country other than Zambia, the amount of the payment shall be such as would produce, at the official
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