CAP. 401]
Pension Benefits (Judicial Officers)
[1988 Ed.
(c) service which is pensionable-
(i) under the Oversea Superannuation Scheme;
(ii) under any Acts relating to the superannuation of teachers in the United Kingdom;
(iii) under a local authority in the United Kingdom; or
(iv) under the National Health Service of the United Kingdom;
(d) any other service that the Governor has determined to be public service for the purposes of this Ordinance;
(e) except for the purposes of computation of a pension or gratuity and of section 22, service in respect of which a pension may be granted under the Governors' Pensions Act 1957 (1957 c. 62 U.K.) or the Governors' Pensions Scheme 1979 or any Act or Scheme amending or replacing that Act or Scheme;
(f) service as the holder of the office of President, Vice-President, Justice of Appeal, Registrar, officer or servant of the Court of Appeal for Eastern Africa or the Court of Appeal for East Africa;
(g) service in a civil capacity in the service of the Interim Commission for the West Indies;
(h) pensionable service with the British Telecommunication and the Post Office, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland;
"qualifying service" means the period of service calculated as qualifying service in accordance with the regulations;
"reduced pension" means the reduced pension referred to in section 26(1);
"the regulations" means regulations made under this Ordinance;
"retirement" means retirement from the public service;
"salary" means the substantive salary attached to any established or non-established office in the service;
"short service gratuity" means a short service gratuity granted to an officer under section 36;
"spouse" means the person to whom an officer is, by reason of the form of marriage contracted, lawfully married;
"wife", in relation to an officer, means-
(a) the lawful wife of the officer married to him by a Christian marriage or its civil equivalent;
(b) where there is no such wife and the officer is Chinese the kit fat or tin fong wife; or
(c) where there is no wife under paragraph (a) or (b) and polygamy lawfully subsists, the principal wife recognized as such by the personal law of the officer,
and "widow" shall be construed accordingly.
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