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(6) A re-employed officer or pensioner shall be deemed to have exercised, or not to have exercised, in respect of his service subsequent to re-employment, the said option, according as he exercised, or did not exercise, such option in respect of his previous service even if, in respect of such previous service, the option was not available to him.
PART V.
NON-PENSIONable OfficeRS,
24. This Part of these Regulations shall apply only to non- of Part V. pensionable officers and shall have effect from the date of enactment
Interpreta- tion.
Annual
and gratuity
hereof.
25. In this Part of these Regulations-
"salary" and "pay" mean remuneration exclusive of cost of living allowance or other allowance or extra pay for work done in hours which are beyond the normal working period;
"non-pensionable officer" stall include-
(«) a person paid at daily rates of FELY, hereinafter referred to as a daily paid employee;
(b) an officer other than a daily paid employee who does not hold a pensionable office or who holding a pensionable office is serving on probation, but not including an officer who is serving under an agreement expressly providing for the payment of a gratuity dependent upon the length of service of such officer; such officers are hereinafter referred to as monthly paid officers:
Provided that an officer holding a pensionable office whilst on probation who is confirmed without break of service to a pension- able office shall not be eligible for benefit under this Part of these Regulations in respect of service in a pensionable office whilst on probation.
For the purpose of this provision any break of service which may be disregarded under the provisions of Regulation 15 of these Regulations may likewise be disregarded in determining whether an officer is confirmed in a pensionable office without break of service.
26. (1) Every monthly paid non-pensionable officer serving allowance in this Colony in respect of whom the conditions set forth herein are fulfilled may on retirement be granted by the Governor an for monthly annual allowance which, if his length of service does not exceed paid officers. 25 years, shall be calculated at the rate of 1/8ooth of his annual
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salary for every complete month of service in the Colony and if his service exceeds 25 years, shall be calculated at 300/Booth of such annual salary with an addition thereto of 1/600th of such annual salary for every completed month of service in the Colony in excess of 25 years. Such annual salary shall be computed in accordance with paragraph (1) of Regulation 18, subject to the modification that for the words "annual pensionable emoluments" wherever they occur in such Regulation shall be substituted the words "annual salary": Provided that where the officer at the date of retirement is employed in a post the minimum of the scale of salary of which amounts to $634 per annum or less and who prior to the commencement of this Regulation was not in the service of this Colony no annual allowance may be granted but ir shall be lawful for the Governor to award a gratuity to such officer not exceeding five times the amount of the annual allowance which might have been granted to him under this Regulation but for this proviso,
(2) Annual salary in respect of an officer who, having held a non-pensionable post is serving on probation in a pension- able office, shall be the annual pensionable emoluments of the pensionable office or the annual pay last received in respect of his service in a non-pensionable office, whichever shall be greater.
(3) The conditions upon which an annual allowance or gruluity may be granted under this Regulation are-
(4) such service must have been continuous for a period of not less than ten years: Provided that such interruptions in service which may be disregarded under Regulation 15 for the purpose of qualifying for and computing a pension may be dis- regarded for the purpose of qualifying for and computing an annual allowance under this Regulation; and either
five; or
(b) the officer must have attained the age of fifty-
(e) the Governor must be satisfied on medical evidence that he is incapable by reason of infirmity of mind or body of discharging the duties of his office and that such infirmity is likely to be permanent; or
(d) the officer's retirement must be necessitated by the reorganization of the department to which he belongs in order to effect greater economy or efficiency.
(4) Any officer to whom an annual allowance may be granted under this Regulation may, in lieu of such allowance, on application to the Governor not later than the date of retirement