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Right to continue contributions in full on reduced income.
Right on retirement to elect to contribute on former dollar salary.
Widows and Orphans Pension.
pensionable cease to contribute and to have any rights under this Ordinance.
(5) An officer, with children pensionable under this Ordinance at the time when he leaves the public service, who subsequently becomes a widower shall thereupon, or upon the last of such children ceasing to be pensionable (whichever event last happens), cease to contribute and to have any rights under this Ordinance.
(6) If an officer, who is a widower without children entitled to pension, dies while in the public service, one-half of the contributions made by him as aforesaid since the death of his last wife or, if at the death of such wife any child continued to be pensionable, after the time when such child ceased to be pensionable, shall be repaid without interest to his legal representative.
[9]
11. (1) Whenever the salary of an officer becomes reduced by abatement of his emoluments or by retirement on pension, he may elect to continue to contribute upon the higher salary which he was receiving previous to such reduction, and subject to the same terms and conditions as if he had continued to draw the higher salary: Provided that such officer shall notify his decision to the Accountant General within one month after the date of the abatement or within four months after the date of his retirement: Provided also that if such officer fails to notify his decision to the Accountant General within one month or four months, as the case may be, or if he dies before he has notified his decision, he shall be deemed to have elected to contribute on the lower salary or pension.
(2) If such officer does not elect so to continue to contribute upon the higher salary, and contributes on the lower salary or pension, any pension to his widow or children shall be diminished by the amount by which it would have been increased had such officer's salary been increased and not diminished.
[10]
12. In the case of an officer retiring whose pension is paid on a dollar basis and who elects to contribute on the basis of his former dollar salary, such pension shall be reduced by the amount of the abatement at four per cent of his former dollar salary, and the balance shall be payable.
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