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examination required by the regulations in force at the time of his first appointment, within the period prescribed by such regulations. If he fails so to pass, the period by which the date of his passing the examination is overdue will be deducted from his term of service when his claims to pansion are considered.
4. Acting service in an office carrying claim to pension will, when continuous with permanent em- ployment, be allowed to reckon as service for pen- sion, provided no other officer was earning pension for the same period in respect of the same office. And Public Servant who has been transferred from a non-pensionable to a pensionable office will be entitled to reckon his service in the former if it has been continuous with his subsequent service in the latter capacity. The service of a Public Servant under 16 years of does not count for pension.
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5. Any Public Servant of the Colony who may be appointed Governor of Ceylon shall, on relinquishing that appointment, if under the age of 55 years, be entitled to the same pension which he would have received had he continued to hold the office vacated by him when appointed Governor, and had he been obliged to retire on account of ill-health.
But if any such officer be offered other employ- ment under the Crown which he may be reasonably expected to accept, the payment of his pension shall be suspended during the period of such employment, if he nocept such offer. And if he decline the appointment offered to him, the payment of his pension shall be suspended until he attains the age of 55 years.
6. In case of abolition of office the following additions may be made to the pensions or gratuities grantable under sections 2 and 24 of this Minute. Provided always that the officer who is thus retired shall be liable to be re-called to the Public Service for re-employment :---
(i.) In computing the pension of a person who shall have served for 20 years and upwards, a period of 10 years may be added to his actual
service.
(H.) Where the actual service amounts to less than 20 years and not less than 15 years, a period of seven years may be added.
(iii.) Where the actual service amounts to less than 15 years and not less than 10 years, a period of five years may be added.
iv.) Whare the period of service amounts to less than 10 years and not less than five years, a gratuity shall be awarded, calculated at the rate of one month's salary for each year's service, with the addition of three months' salary.
(v.) Where the period of service amounts to less than five years, a gratuity shall be awarded, calculated at the rate of one month's salary for cash year's service, plus half a month's salary for the fraction of a year over six months, with the addition of one month's salary,
But these rules shall not apply to the case of any officer whose age would exceed 55 years if he served for the number of years thereby directed to be added to his actual service. In any such case the number of years to be added to the actual service shall not exceed that which, if added to the age of the retiring officer, would bring that age up to 60 years.
7. The pension or gratuity awarded to a Public Servant shall be computed upon the salary of the permanent office or offices held by him at the time of his retirement, provided he shall have held such office or offices for at least three years; otherwise, the pension shall be osloulated upon the average of the salaries attached to the permanent offices "bold by such person during the three years next pre- oeding the commencement of such pension. In the case of native sergeants of the police foros, pension will be calculated on the salary drawn at the time of retirement, even if such salary was not drawn throughout the preceding three year, if the offloer has served in the class in which he is serving at the time of his retirement for such three years.
8. For the purpose of the last preceding section salary includes personal allowango, rations, and any other unquestionable remuneration for personal ser- vice in connection with the officer's permament appointment, which other officers have to meet out of their salaries.
9. A Public Servant is entitled to reckon as service for pension the whole period of absence on vacation leave and half the period of absenos on leave with half malary. Absence without salary will not
count as service for pension.
10. As a general rule, it is indispensable sa a qualification for pension that the whole time of the retiring ooer during his employment shall have been given to the Public Servise. But offeses of the Attorney-General's Department, subordinate officers of the Civil Medical Department, and Native Head- men, shall not be affected by this provision.
11. The rates of pension above set forth will only be granted in cases of faithful and meritorious service. Where the testimony as to good conduct is in any way defective, a deduction will be made from the pansion; and where the misconduct of a Public Servant has been of a serious nature, he shall forfeit all claim to pension,
12. Where servios of peculiar and extraordinary merit has been rendered by a Publis Barrant dis- tinctly outside the duties in respect of which his salary is paid, a special rate of pension may be recommended for momotion, but in ordinary cases the maacimum pension or retiring allowanos grantable to an allser under this Minute, or to an officer entitled to passion also in respsos of servios not under the Ceylon Government from all services combined, shall not exceed two-thirds of the highest enlary drawn by moh officer at any time in the soures of his service.
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