16 APR '92 10:08 OVERSEAS DEV ADMIN Ø355 84 4099
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overseas officer' means an officer in the public service of Sierra Leone who is, either individually or as a member of a class, declared by the Governor, acting in his discretion, to be an overseas officer;
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'pensionable emoluments means emolumnents that may be taken into account in computing the pension of an officer under the appropriate law;
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66 pensionable service means the aggregate amount of service that may be taken into account for the purpose of computing the pension of an omncer under the appropriate law;
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substantive holder in relation to any office includes a person serving in that office on probation but does not include a person (other than a person serving under a probationary agreement) serving in that office for a specified term under a contract.
(2) Where a person has been gazetted as the substantive holder of any office with effect from a date earlier than the date of the Gazette, he shall for the purposes of this Schedule be deemed to have become the substantive holder of that office on that earlier date.
(3) Where an officer in the public service of the United Kingdom was on any date appointed or selected for appointment as the holder of an office in the public service of Sierra Leone and for any period thereafter was entitled to revert to the public service of the United Kingdom he shall not for the purposes of this Schedule be regarded as having been appointed or, as the case may be, selected for appointment as the substantive holder of an office in the public service of Sierra Leone, but shall for those purposes be regarded as having been so appointed or selected on the date on which he ceased to be entitled so to revert if on that date he was the holder of an office in the public service of Sierra Leone.
(4) Where under the appropriate law an officer in the public service of Sierra Leone may be granted two or more pensions, references in this Schedule to the pension that may under the appropriate law be granted to that officer shall include references to both or all of those pensions.
(5) Any question concerning the interpretation of this Schedule may be referred to and determined by a Secretary of State, whose decision thereon shall be final.
2.-41) Subject to the provisions of sub-paragraph (3) of this paragraph, Retirement of an entitled officer may, after giving six months' notice in writing to the entitled officers. Governe- or such shorter notice as the Governor, acting on the recom- mendation of the Public Service Commission or, as the case may be, the Judicial Service Commission, may allow, retire at any time.
(2) An officer who has given notice of his intention to retire under this paragraph on any date may, with the permission of the Governor, acting on the recommendation of the Public Service Commission or, as the case may be, the Judicial Service Commission, withdraw the notice at any time before that date.
(3) No officer shall retire under this paragraph without the permission of the Governor, acting in his discretion;
Provided that the Governor shall not withhold his permission unless proceedings for the officer's dismissal are being taken or about to be taken.
(4) An entitled officer who retires with the permission of the Governor, acting in his discretion, by reason of injury or ill-health or who is required to retire under subsection (1) of section 9 of the Pensions Ordinance, 1950, of Sierra Leone or any corresponding provision shall be deemed to have retired under sub-paragraph (1) of this paragraph.
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