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22. Where an officer who is in the receipt of a pension from the Ceylon Government is resident in a foreign country or another colony, the currency of which is based on a gold standard, such officer may draw his pension in London through the Crown agents at the same rate of exchange as that at which he would be entitled to draw it if he were living in England. But where auch officer is resi- dent in a place of which the currency is based on a silver standard, he shall only be entitled to be paid his pension in London through the Crown agents at the current rate of exchange.
23. Pensions to Judges of the Supreme Court are granted in accordance with the following regula tions, but subject also to the provisions of such of the foregoing sections (6.g., s. 1, 5, 7, 9, 11, 14, 15, 17) as are not inconsistent with the follow- ing, vis. :-
(i.) A Judge of the Supreme Court after not less than seven years' service in that capacity who is compelled to retire on account of ill-health, or who has attained the age of 55 years, may be awarded a pension of 1-30th of his salary for each year of his service as such Judge, until the maximum rate of 15-30ths or half salary is attained after 15 years' service. (li.) A Judge of the Supreme Court who before his elevation to the Bench has served the Crown in Ceylon in other capacities, and who has not less than 10 years' service in Ceylon in all, in- cluding the time spent on the Supreme Court Bench, may be allowed to claim either a pension at the rate of 1-80th of his salary as Judge of the Supreme Court for each year of his service in that capacity, together with 1-60th of his pensionable salary previous to his ele- vation to the Bench for each pensionable year of his previons public service, including an addition of years equivalent to that provided in section 20; or a pension at ordinary pension rates, in accordance with section 2, for the whole of his service. Provided that in no case shall such combined pension exceed the maxi- mum pension attainable under sub-section (i.), namely, half the Judge's salary.
(iii.) Every Judge of the Supreme Court who is transferred to or from the servios of Ceylon from or to other service under the Crown, and is not entitled to a pension under the foregoing sub-sections (i.) and (ii.), may, if his aggregate service under the Crown in Ceylon and elsewhere would have entitled him to a pension according to the principles laid down in these regulations, be awarded on his ultimate retirement a pension at the rate of 1-30th of his salary as such judge for each year of his service in that capacity.
24. The oflors of the Survey and Public Works and Forest Departments, specided in the Schedule hereto annezać, may receive 5-60ths of the salary on which their pension is computed, in addition to the rates laid down in section 2, provided they retire on medical certifiontes.
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25. Officers transferred from or to other branches of the public service to or from the Survey or Public Work or Forest Departments may receive an addition that shall bear to 5-60ths of their salary
in such Department the same proportion that their service therein bears to their total service in the Colony.
26. Mounted orderlies and members of the police force shall be entitled to pension on the scale laid down in section 2, whether their salary at the time of retirement amounts to, or is less than, Rs. 250 per annum. Men who served in the late Ceylon Rifle Regiment, and enlisted in the Mounted Orderly Corps or the police during the months of July and August 1878, and who are not in the receipt of a military pension, will be allowed to count towards pension one-third of their military service.
27. Any officer of the police force who served as sergeant or constable previously to the re-organisa- tion of the Department in 1866, and who re-enlisted into the police force, shall count towards pension one half of his service prior to re-enlistment.
In the case of men admitted into the forse sub- sequently to October 7, 1874, pensions will only be granted to those whose ages on admission were under 80 years. In the case of men whose age on enlistment arceeded 80 years, no claim to pension will be admitted, but the Government will be pre- pared to consider any recommendation which may be made by the head of the Department for the grant of gratuities to them on their retirement, in proportion to their length of service, viz., at the rate of one month's salary for each year of service. Special cases may, however, arise, which should be submitted by the Inspector General of Police to the Government for consideration, with a view to the grant of a pension.
28. Telegraph masters and signallers who were employed in Ceylon under the Indian Government, who qualified for pension under the Indian Civil Code, and whose services were engaged by this Government on the transfer of the Telegraph Department, will, on their retirement, be entitled to receive a pension, at the rates fixed by section 2, from the Indian and Ceylon Governments calculated in the proportion which the aggregate salary drawn by them under the Indian and Ceylon Governments respectively bears to the aggregate salary received by them during the whole of their qualifying
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29. Public Servants whose service has been entirely in a non-pensionable office may be awarded a retiring allowance not exceeding three-fourths of the amount payable under section 2. vided, that to become eligible for an allowance under this section an officer shall have been reported by a medical board, nominated by the Governor, to be permanently unfit for further active survios, or shall be retired on abolition of office after serving continuously for a period of not less than 15 years. Provided further, that this privilege shall not be held in any way to interfere with the power of the
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