9. Section 8 of the principal Ordinance is amended by Amendment the deletion of the word "successive" in the fourth line of Ordinance thereof.
No. 15 of 1908, s. 8.
10. Section 9 of the principal Ordinance is repealed and Amendment the following section is substituted therefor :-
Contribu- tions of officers
leaving
the ser-
vice, and
of certain officers dying in the
service.
9.-(1) In this section references to leaving the public service shall apply whatever the cause of the officer's leaving the public service of the Colony may be, and whether the officer leaves the public service with or without a pension,
(2) An officer who leaves the public service as
a bachelor shall upon so leaving have the option of continuing to contribute, and if he elects not to continue to contribute he shall be entitled to receive back one half of the contributions made by him.
(3) An officer who leaves the public service as a widower without any child of pensionable age shall upon so leaving have the option of continuing to contribute, and if be elects not to continue to contribute he shall be entitled to receive back one half of the contributions made by him after the death of his last wife, or, if at the death of such wife any child continued to be pensionable, then after the time when the last child ceased to be pensionable.
(4) An officer who leaves the public service as a widower with a child or children of pensionable age shall upon the last of such children ceasing to be pensionable have the option of continuing to contribute, but he shall not be entitled to any refund in any event.
(5) An officer who leaves the public service married, with or without a child or children of pen. sionable age, shall be entitled to continue to contri- Imte after the death of his wife, or after the death of any subsequent wife married to him while he was contributing, or after the last of any pensionable children shall have ceased to be peusionable, whichever event shall last happen, but he shall not be entitled to any refund in any event.
(6) If an officer who leaves the public service without a pension elects upon so leaving to con- tinue to contribute, his contribution shall be at the rate of four per cent per annum on the salary which be was drawing immediately before leaving the service, and upon such election he shall become liable to continue to make snch contri- bution until he has either attained the age of sixty-five years or has contributed for thirty-five years, whichever event shall first happen; Pro- vided that if the salary of such officer was, in consequence of his being interdicted from the exercise of the powers and functions of his office, reduced before his leaving the public service, his contributions shall be at the rate of four per cent per annum on the salary which he was drawing immediately before such reduction.
of Ordinance No. 15 of
1908, s. 9.
(7) The contribution of an officer who leaves the public service without a pension but who elects to continue to contribute shall be payable to the Colonial Treasurer on the 31st day of December and the 30th day of June in each year, aud if any instalment due fails to reach the Colonial Treasurer within three months after such que inte the officer shall be deemed to have censed to contribute.
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(8) If an officer who leaves the public service without a pension does not continue to contribute upon leaving the public service, or does so con- tinue on leaving the public service but afterwards ceases to contribute before the termination of his liability to contribute, his widow and children, or his widow, or his children, as the case may be, shall be entitled on his death only to a pension computed on the basis of the interest acquired by bim at the date of his ceasing to contribute, cul- culated in accordance with the Tables attached to this Ordinance.
(9) If any officer or ex-officer to whom this section gives an option to continue to contribute fails to give to the Directors, within three months of the event upon which the option arises, notice in writing signed by him of his desire to continue to contribute, he shall be deemed to have elected not to continue to contribute.
(10) In no case shall any officer or ex-officer be entitled to continue to contribute after he has attained the age of sixty-five or after he has con- tributed for thirty-five years.
(11) If an officer who is a bachelor dies while
in the public service one half of the contributions made by bim shall be refunded to his legal per- sonal representative.
(12) If an officer who is a widower without any chill of pensionable age dies while in the public service one half of the contributions made by him after the death of his last wife, or, if at the death of such wife any child continued to be pensionable, then after the time when the last child ceased to be pensionable, shall be refunded to the legal personal representative of such officer.
(18) All refunds uuder this section shall be without interest.
11. Section 11 of the principal Ordinance is repealed, Repeal of and section 10 of the principal Ordinance is re-numbered Ordinance
as section 11.
No. 15 of
and re-uum-
1908, §. 11.
bering of 8 10A.
12. Sub-section (1) of section 15 of the principal Ordi- Amendment nance is amended by the addition of the following proviso of Ordinance at the end thereof :-
No. 15 of 1908, s. 15.
Provided that this sub-section shall not apply where the officer or ex-officer ceased to contribute because he had reached the age of sixty-five years or because he had contributed for thirty-five years.
13. Section 16 of the principal Ordinance is amended Amendment
by the substitution of the word "twenty-one" for the of Ordinance word "eighteen" in the second line thereof.
No. 15 of 1908, s. 16.
14. Section 17 of the principal Ordinance is repealed Amendment and the following section is substituted therefor :-
Calcula-
tion of
of Ordinance No. 15 of
17. Every pension which shall begin to be 1908. s. 17. payable after the commencement of this Ordi- peusions.
nance shall be calculated according to the Schedule. Rules and Tables contained in the Schedule to this Ordinance, and every pension which began to be payable before the commencement of this Ordinance shall be re-calculated according to the Rules and Tables contained in the Schedule to this Ordinance, in both cases as if the said Rules and Tubles bad been in force throughout the whole period of contribution upon which the pension in question shall be or is based,
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