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Definitions

Draft Pensions Ordinance (suggested for Bermuda, Cyprus, Falklands, Gibraltar, Malta, St. Helena, South African Protectorates, Weihaiwei, and West Indian Colonies not included under B).

Whereas it is expedient to make provision by law for the granting of pensions, gratuities or other allowances to persons in the service of this Colony; be it therefore enacted by the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof :-

"The

1. This Ordinance may be cited as Pensions Ordinance, 19 " and shall come into operation on the first day of January; nineteen bandred and fifteen, which date is hereinafter called the commencement of the Ordinance.

2. In this Ordinance and the Regulations made thereunder the term "pensionable office"

means an office which has been declared by the Governor in Council, with the sanction of the Secretary of State, by a notification published in the Government Gazette, to be pensionable; provided that any office declared to be pensionable under this section may be declared at any time by the Governor in Council, with the sanction of the Secretary of State, by a notification published in the Government Gazette, to be-

no longer pensionable, due regard being had to existing rights.

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The term "pensionable emoluments (a) in respect of service in the Colony includes:

(1) salary;

(2) personal allowance ;

(3) house allowance ;[*]

but does not include duty allowance or any other emoluments whatever.

(b) in respect of other public service means emoluments which count for pension in accordance with the law or Regulations in force in such service.

The term

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salary means the salary

attached to an office.

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The term "personal allowance means a. special addition to such salary granted personally to the holder for the time being of the office.

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The term "house allowance means the estimated value of free quarters or the amount allowed in lieu thereof, not exceed ing in any case one-sixth of salary.

The term "other public service" includes [means] service in a civil capacity under the Imperial Government or the Government of India, or in a British Colony or Protectorate, and any such other service as the Secretary For proposed addition in case of the Eastern Colonies see Committee's supplementary minute.]

B

Draft Pensions Ordinance (suggested for Ceylon, Federated Malay States, Hong Kong, Mauritius, Seychelles, Straits Settlements, British Guiana, British Honduras, Leeward Islands, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos, Windward Islands, Fiji, and Western Pacific Protectorates.) Whereas it is expedient to make provision by law for the granting of pensions, gratuities or other allowances to persons in the service of this Colony; be it therefore enacted by the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof :-

1. This Ordinance may be cited as

"The Pensions Ordinance, 19 " and shall come into operation on the first day of January, nineteen-handred-and-fifteen, which date is hereinafter called the commencement of the Ordinance.

2. In this Ordinance and the Regulations made thereunder the term pensionable office" means an office which has been declared by the Governor in Council, with the sanction of the Secretary of State, by a notification published in the Government Gazette, to be pensionable; provided that any office declared to be pensionable under this section may

be declared at any time by the Governor in Council, with the sanction of the Secretary of State, by a notification published in the Government Gazette, to be no longer pensionable, due regard being had to existing rights.

The term "pensionable emoluments" (a) in respect of service in the Colony includes:

(1) salary;

(2) personal allowance; (3) house allowance ;[*]

but does not include duty allowance or any other emoluments whatever.

(b) in respect of other public service means emoluments which count for pension in accordance with the law or Regulations in force in such service.

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The term "salary means the salary attached to an office.

The term "personal allowance" means a special addition to such salary granted personally to the holder for the time being of the office.

The term "house allowance" means the estimated value of free quarters or the amount allowed in lieu thereof, not exceed ing in any case one-sixth of salary.

The term "other public service" includes [means] service in a civil capacity under the Imperial Government or the Government of India, or in a British Colony or Protectorate, and any such other service as the Secretary

[For proposed addition in case of the Eastern Colorries see Committee's supplementary minute.]

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C

Draft Pensions Ordinance

(suggested for West African and East African Colonies and Protectorates).

Whereas it is expedient to make provision by law for the granting of pensions, gratuities or other allowances to persons in the service of this Colony; be it therefore enacted by the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof :—

1. This Ordinance may be cited as "The Pensions Ordinance, 19," and shall come into operation on the first day of Jonary, nineteen baadred and fifteen, which date is hereinafter called the commencement of the Ordinance.

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2. In this Ordinance and the Regulations made thereunder the term "pensionable office means an office which has been declared by the Governor in Council, with the sanction of the Secretary of State, by a notification published in the Government Gazette, to be pensionable; provided that any office declared to be pensionable under this section may be declared at any time by the Governor in Council, with the sanction of the Secretary of State, by a notification published in the Government Gazette, to be no longer pensionable, due regard being had to existing rights.

The term

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"pensionable emoluments (a) in respect of service in the Colony includes:

(1) salary;

(2) personal allowance; (3) house allowance ;[*]

but does not include duty allowance or any other emoluments whatever.

(b) in respect of other public service means emoluments which count for pension in accordance with the law or Regulations in force in such service.

The term

salary' means the salary attached to an office.

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The term "personal allowance" ineans a special addition to such salary granted personally to the holder for the time being of the office.

The term "house allowance

means the estimated value of free quarters or the amount allowed in lieu thereof, not ex- ceerling in any case one-sixth of salary.

includes

The term "other public service [means] service in a civil capacity under the Imperial Government or the Government of India, or in a British Colony or Protectorate, and any such other service as the Secretary

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[* For proposed addition in case of the Eastern Colonies see Committee's supplementary minute.]

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