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13. All pensions will be subject to the approval of the Secretary of State, to whom certificates of age, service, good conduct, and of the ground of retire- ment must be submitted in each case when such approval is sought.

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14. A pension will not be granted to a Public Servant who shall be under 55 years of upon a certificate from the Head of his Depart- unless ment, and from a Medical Board nominated by the Governor, or, if he is absent on leave, from such medical adviser or advisers as the Secretary of State may name, that he is unfit to discharge the duties of his office owing to infirmity, either of mind or body, and unless he shall have theretofore discharged such duties to the satisfaction of the Head of his Department. When the Public Servant claiming pension is himself the Head of a Department, a pension will be granted only upon medical certi- ficate, as prescribed above, and if he shall have discharged the duties of his office to the satis- faction of the Governor, who shall notify the same to the Secretary of State. But in the case of Mounted Orderlies the limit of age under which a pension will not be granted without the medical certificate re- quired above is 45 years.

15. Should a Public Servant to whom a pension has been awarded take salaried employment in any Public Department, either in this Colony or in any other part of Her Majesty's dominions, his pension shall cease to be paid whilst he is so employed, if the official income of his new office is equal to the salary of the appointment from which he retired. But if such official income is less than the salary of his last former office, then so much of his pension shall be paid as shall make up his income to the amount of the salary last drawn by him previously to his retirement.

16. When a pensioner has qualified himself, by re-employment, for a second pension, a distinct pension shall be grantable for the second period of service, less climate bonus already computed in the first pension,

17. Every Public Servant appointed to, or pro- moted in, any branch of the public service in the Colony subsequently to August 3, 1882, may be required to retire from the public service on or after attaining the age of 55 years, upon being given 12 months' notice to that effect.

It shall be competent to the Governor in execu- tive council, subject to the approval of the Secretary of State, to require any public officer who shall have attained the age of 60 years to retire, and such retirement shall be compulsory on such officer.

18. If any person in the receipt of a pension or compassionate allowance shall be convicted of any offence for which he shall be sentenced to death, or to any term of rigorous imprisonment or analogous punishment exceeding 12 months, the payment of such pension or allowance shall be forthwith dis continued, unless the Governor in executive council otherwise direct.

19. The services in respect of which pensions are granted should be continuous. But when the services of a Public Servant have been discontinued in the circumstances stated in section 6, and he is afterwards re-employed, his service previous to such discontinuance will be allowed to count as ser- vice for pension. Also service prior to a break of service may be regarded as continuous with sub- sequent service if the whole intervening period has, with the previous sanction of the Government, been spent in some other employment under the Crown or of a quasi-public character, including employ- ment under a municipality, or road committee, or other local public body in Ceylon, and public em- ployment in any country where for the time being Her Majesty exercises & protectorate, or jurisdiction and power under the authority of the Foreign Juris- diction Act, 1890, or any Act passed to amend or in substitution of that Act.

20. An officer who has been transferred with the approval of the Government of this Colony, or of the Secretary of State, to some other employment under the Crown or to employment of a quasi- public character (as defined in foregoing section) shall retain a claim to ultimate pension for his service in Ceylon, provided that he retires under circumstances which would entitle him to a colonial pension, and provided further that, if his appoint- ment be abolished or his employment of such quasi- public character terminated for any other reason than that of ill-health, before attaining the pen- sionable age of 55 years, he shall have no claim on the Colony for pension until he attains that age, or is certified to be permanently incapacitated for further service in the Colonies. In all such cases the Ceylon pension will only be based upon the, salary drawn in Ceylon and upon the length of service in Ceylon, and will be at the rate of one- sixtieth for each year's service in Ceylon, together with an addition to such actual service which shall bear a like proportion to five years as his service in Ceylon bears to the whole period of his employ- ment in tropical climates, provided that no such addition shall be made to his sotual service in Ceylon, in cases where such officer has not been employed for 10 years in all in tropical climates, and further, provided thas the addition shall in no case be greater than would make his total public employment 40 years.

21. An officer who has been transferred to the service of this Colony from some other employment under the Crown or of a quasi-public character may, if he shall have completed 10 years' public service in all, but retire before completing 10 years' service in Ceylon, be awarded, in lieu of the gratuity mentioned in section 2, (iv.) an annuity which shall bear the same proportion to fifteen- sixtieths of his salary in this Colony, or to twenty- sixtieths in the case of the officers referred to in section 24, as his service in Ceylon bears to kirivial publi-semise, svrgeters.

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