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gratuity for certain officers.
an additional pension the provisions of this paragraph shall have effect in relation to that officer as if references to the pension that may be granted under the appropriate law included references to that additional pension.
(4) Where an officer to whom this paragraph applies retires in con- sequence of the abolition of his office or for the purpose of facilitating improvements in the organisation of the part of the public service to which he belongs by which greater economy or efficiency may be effected in circumstances in which he could under the appropriate law be granted an additional pension, the provisions of this paragraph shall have effect in relation to that officer as if references to the pen- sion that may be granted under the appropriate law did not include references to that additional pension.
(5) For the purposes of this paragraph the amount of the pension or gratuity that an officer who is required to retire in the circum- stances described in paragraph 4(4)(c) or (e) or paragraph 9 of this Schedule or on the grounds of age before attaining the age of fifty-five years or in the case of a judge or the Court of Appeal or the High Court, sixty-two years may be granted under the appropriate law shall be calculated by reference to the full annual pensionable emoluments enjoyed by him on the date immediately prior to his retirement.
(6) If an officer has not exercised the option conferred upon him by sub-paragraph (1) of this paragraph within the period in which it is required to be exercised he shall be deemed to have opted for the grant of a pension of such amount as may be granted under the appropriate law.
(7) In this paragraph-
the appropriate factor" in relation to an officer means the factor obtained from Table IV of the Annex to this Schedule that is appropriate to the age of that officer on the date immediately prior to his retirement reckoned in completed years and completed months;
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the permitted fraction
(a) in relation to an officer who retires within one year of the
operative date, means three-quarters;
(b) in relation to an additional pension granted on account of injury under regulation 11(1) of the European Officers' Pensions Regulations of Zambia, means three-quarters; and
(c) subject to head (b) of this definition, in relation to an officer who retires within not less than one and not more than twelve years of the operative date, means such fraction as is obtained by subtracting one-sixteenth for each complete year of his pensionable service after the operative date from three-quarters: Provided that in reckoning for the purposes of this sub-paragraph the years of pensionable service of an officer who is granted leave of absence pending his retirement, leave of absence granted in respect of service prior to the operative date the enjoyment of which had on the operative date been deferred shall not be taken into account.
12 (1) Subject to the provisions of paragraphs 16 and 17 of this Schedule, where any entitled officer to whom Part II of the European
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