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Amendment of section 9.
Addition of
new section
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(b) by inserting the following new proviso-
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"Provided that this subsection shall have no effect and shall be deemed never to have had effect în relation to an approved scheme which has been declared by the Secretary of State to be a List I scheme.".
Section 9 of the principal Ordinance is amended by delet ing "The abatement aforesaid" and substituting the following-
"Except as otherwise provided or permitted in this Ordin- ance, the abatement aforesaid".
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The principal Ordinance is amended by adding the fol lowing new section after section 9-
"Right after retirement
to crase coD- tributions.
472 of 1967.3
9A. (1) Notwithstanding anything in this Ordin- ance to the contrary, an officer who from any cause whatever ceases to belong to the public service and retires on pension or has ceased to belong to the public service and retired on pension may at any time, in lieu of being subject to any further abatement from either salary or pension, elect by notice in writing to the Accountant General to discontinue being a con- tributor under this Ordinance whereupon he shall not be required to make any further contribution and any pension to his widow or children (if any) shall be com- puted on the basis of the potential benefit acquired by such contributor at the date of his ceasing to contribute.
(2) An election under subsection (1) shall be irrevocable, and shall be effective—
(a) in the case of an officer who ceases to belong to the public service on or after the date of enactment of the Widows and Orphans Pension (Amendment) (No. 2) Ordinance 1967 and whose notice of election is received by the Accountant General not later than four months after the date on which he ceased to belong to the public service, from the date notified in the notice of election, not being a date earlier than the date on which he ceased to belong to the public service; and
(6) in all other cases, from the date of receipt by the Accountant Gederal of the notice of election.".
6. Section 10 of the principal Ordinance is amended- (a) in subsection (1), by inserting the following after "and
retires on pension"-
"and who is required to continue to make contribu- tions under this Ordinance";
(b) in subsection (2), by inserting the following after "rights
under this Ordinance"-
"unless, before the last of such children ceases to be pensionable, he re-marries"; and
(c) in subsection (3), by inserting the following after "rights
under this Ordinance”-
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"unless, in the case of an officer with children pen- sionable ouder this Ordinance at the time when he becomes a widower, he re-marries prior to the last of such children ceasing to be pensionable".
7. Section 12 of the principal Ordinance is amended in subsection (1) by inserting the following after "on pension,”
"then, if he is an officer who is required to continue to make contributions under this Ordinance,”.
#. Sections 14 and 15 of the principal Ordinance are amended-
(a) by deleting "interest" where it occurs in each section
and substituting the following-
"potential benefit"; and
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(8) by deleting in accordance with the Tables to this
Ordinance" where it occurs in each section.
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Section 16 of the principal Ordinance is repealed and replaced by the following new section-
~loforma-
tion to be furnished by officers and others.
16. (1) Every officer who becomes liable to contribute under this Ordinance shall, within three months from the date of his becoming liable to con- tribute, forward to the Accountant General a declara- tion setting forth--
(a) the date of his becoming so liable, his own name in full, and the date of his birth; and
(b) if he is married, the date of bis marriage and the maiden name in full and the date of birth of his wife; and
Amendment of section 10,
Amendment of section 12.
Amendment of sections 14 and
15.
Repeal and replacement of section 16.