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person, whose salary did not suffer abatement before the first day of January, 1930, and has suffered abate- ment since that date, by reason of his receipt of a salary of not less than four hundred and twenty dollars per annum but less than four hundred and eighty dollas per annum, shall receive a refund of his contri- butions, unless he claims the right to participate as a contributor within three months after the commence- ment of this Ordinance.
5. The following deletions are made in the Widows' Deletion of and Orphans' Pension Ordinance, 1908.
references to the Widows'
Pension Fund.
() the words "the transfer to the Government and Orphans'
of the Widows and Orphans' Pension Fund and of the management and control of” from the long title
(ii) the preamble;
(in) paragraph (b) of section 2 ;
(i) the words to the Fund" at the end of
section 3 (1);
(e) the words "to the Fund" in line 3 and in
line 7 of section 3 (3);
(i) the words "to the Fund" at the end of
section 3 (4) ;
(ei) the words "to the Fund" in the first line of
section 29.
Objects and Reasons.
In view of the recent revision of salaries it has been considered desirable that the minimum annual salary rendering an officer liable or eligible for contribution to the Widows' and Orphans' Pension Scheme should be raised from four hundred and twenty to four hun- dred and eighty dollars, without prejudice to contri- butors prior to the revision whose revised salary bas not reached the latter amount. Officers who are con- tributing to another approved scheme can claim exemp- tion under section 3A of the principal Ordinance (No. 15 of 1908) which was introduced by the amending Ordinance No. 9 of 1929. It is considered that such officers should be permitted to claim exemption if they have completed their contributions to an approved scheme and obtained what amounts to a fully paid policy thereunder. The provisoes added to section 3 (1) of the principal Ordinance by section 2 (2) of this Ordinance' are derived from the Uganda Ordinance. These provisoes exclude Governors, their Private Secretaries and Aides de-Camp and persons who have attained the age of forty-nine from being required to commence contributing under the principal Ordinance. Section 5 deletes the references to the Fund constituted under the Ordinance of 1900 and the transfer thereof to the Government. As the Ordinance stands in the 1924 Revision the long title and preamble are incor-
rect.
November, 1980.
C. G. ALABASTER,
Attorney General.