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(3) The option referred to in subsection (1) shall

(a) be in writing addressed to the Director of Accounting Services;

and

(b) state the rate of the reduced pension, in accordance with that subsection, in the annual pension or aggregate of the annual pension,

and the date of the exercise of the option shall be deemed to be the date on which the Director of Accounting Services receives the option.

(4) Subject to the provisions of subsection (2) as regards the revoca- tion of an option, an option exercised under that subsection shall be irrevocable.

(5) An officer who dies before exercising an option under subsec- tion (1) but after he has retired shall be deemed to have exercised the option to reduce his pension or aggregate pensions by 50 per cent and the commuted pension gratuity and reduced pension shall be paid in accordance with subsection (1).

(6) Subject to subsection (7), a commuted pension gratuity shall be payable to an officer—

(a) in the case of a deferred pension, when that pension is payable

under section 7(a) for the first time; and

(b) in all other cases, when the reduced pension is payable for the first

time.

(7) Where an officer retires in accordance with any compensation scheme, the reduced pension and the commuted pension gratuity shall be computed, and shall be payable, in accordance with the compensation scheme applicable to the officer.

25. No pension benefits or moneys related thereto shall accrue to a husband of a female officer under sections 19(1)(i) and 28(3), nor shall he be a beneficiary and be entitled to exercise the option conferred by section 17, unless satisfactory evidence is produced by him to the Secretary for the Civil Service to show that he is wholly or mainly dependent upon his wife for support by reason of his infirmity of mind or body, illness or old age.

26. (1) If an officer who is eligible for a pension or to whom a pension has been granted is re-appointed to the public service, or appointed to service in any subvented organization which is determined to be public service for the purposes of this section by the Governor by notice in the Gazette, the payment of the pension may be suspended during the period of his service after his re-appointment or appointment, as the case may be.

(2) A pension that is suspended under subsection (1) shall be payable with effect from the date on which the service of the officer after his re-appointment or appointment ceases.

Husband entitled to pension benefits only if dependant.

Suspension of pension on re-appointment to the service.

27. (1) After taking into consideration the advice of the Public Power not to Service Commission, the Governor may--

grant, or to cancel or

(a) refuse to grant a pension to an officer if it be shown to the reduce,

Governor that the officer wilfully suppressed facts that are pension. material to the grant of a pension; or