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Interpretation.
Pension for service wholly
within the Group.
Pensions.
8. (1) In this Part and Part IV— "Scheduled Government" means the Government of any territory, or any authority, mentioned in the Schedule to these regulations and includes the Government of Ceylon, in respect of any officer appointed to the service of that Government prior to the 4th February, 1948, and the Government of Palestine, in respect of any officer appointed to the service of that Government prior to the 15th May, 1948;
"service in the Group" means service under the Government of this Colony and under a Scheduled Government or Scheduled Governments.
(2) Where an officer, to whom this Part applies, is, on his retirement from the public service, not granted a pension or gratuity in respect of his employment in the service in which he is last employed, solely by reason of the fact that he has not held office or pensionable office therein for a specified period he shall nevertheless be deemed for the purpose of this Part to have retired in circumstances in which he is permitted by the law or regulations of the service in which he is last employed to retire on pension or gratuity.
9. (1) Where the other public service of an officer to whom this Part applies has been wholly under one or more Scheduled Governments, and his aggregate service would have qualified him had it been wholly in this Colony for a pension under the Ordinance, he may, on his retirement from the public service in circumstances in which he is permitted by the law or regulations of the service in which he is last employed to retire on pension or gratuity be granted in respect of his service in this Colony a pension of such an amount as shall bear the same proportion to the amount of pension for which he would have been eligible had his service been wholly in this Colony, as the aggregate amounts of his pensionable emoluments during his service in this Colony shall bear to the aggregate amounts of his pensionable emoluments throughout his service in the Group.
(2) In determining for the purposes of this regulation the pension for which an officer would have been eligible if his service had been wholly in this Colony—