Gratuity to Estate where
officer dies in service of the Colony.
Gratuity to women officers
retiring on or after marriage.
Pension to widow, etc., of officer
killed,
etc., in discharge of duty.
Application of Ordin-
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such company in this Colony, as the case may be, to give directions for the restoration of such pension or allowance, with retrospective effect if he shall see fit, to such date as he specifies, and such pension or allowance shall be restored accordingly.
16. Where an officer holding a pensionable office, who is not serving on probation or agreement, dies while in service of this Colony, and during the five years preceding his death has continuously held pensionable office in this Colony or offices in other public service which were, when he held them, pensionable under the law or regulations in force relating to such service, it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to grant to his legal personal representative, or in case the gratuity does not exceed $1,000 to such person
as the Governor in Council shall name as the recipient, a gratuity of an amount not exceeding one year's pensionable emoluments of the officer so dying.
17. Where an officer, being a woman and holding a pensionable office in this Colony, has completed not less than five years' service in this Colony, and resigns such office on, or with a view to marriage, or is required to retire from the public service under the provisions of section 10 (d), she may be granted a gratuity calculated at the rate of one-twelfth of a month's pensionable emoluments for each completed month of service provided that such gratuity shall not exceed one year's pensionable emoluments.
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18.--(1) It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to award to the widow and orphans of an officer who has been killed in the discharge of his duty, or who dies as a direct result of injuries received while on duty, or who dies of illness the contraction of which was specifically attributable to the nature of his duties, a pension not exceeding ten-sixtieths of the deceased officer's emoluments or $100 a year, whichever sum is greater Provided that this maximum may be exceeded in exceptional cases.
(2) If the widow of any such officer marries again her pension under the provisions of this section shall cease on the remarriage: Provided that the pension may in the discretion of the Governor in Council, be revived upon re-widowhood.
(3) The pension of an orphan under the provisions of this section shall cease in the case of a male at the age of eighteen years, and in the case of a female on marriage or at the age of twenty-one years.
(4) Any grant made under the provisions of this section shall be in addition to any grant made under the provisons of section 16.
19. Subject to the provisions of section 7, the provisions of this Ordinance shall apply to all officers in the service of this Colony at or after the commencement of this Ordinance and to all those who having served in this Colony have before the commencement of this Ordinance been transferred to other public service and are still in other public service at the com- mencement of this Ordinance: Provided that nothing herein contained shall be deemed to diminish the rights acquired by any person under any enactment hereby repealed or rules or minutes made thereunder. But this proviso shall not be so construed as to entitle any officer, who shall have exercised any option or made any election under any regulations made under this Ordinance, to treat his decision or election as revocable.
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