Local Authorities Pensions (Special Provisions)

Local Authorities Pensions (Special Provisions)

AN ACT TO MAKE PROVISION FOR THE PAYMENT, WITH RETROSPECTIVE EFFECT, OF INCREASED PENSIONS TO CERTAIN EMPLOYEES OF LOCAL AUTHORITIES AND PROVINCIAL AND DISTRICT COMMITTEES WHO HAVE RETIRED FROM SERVICE.

[9^th January
, 1964 ]

Short title.

1. This Act may be cited as the Local Authorities Pensions (Special Provisions) Act, No. 4 of 1964.

Pensions paid to certain persons to be increased.

2. Where any monthly pension is being paid under any written law to any person (hereinafter referred to as a ” pensioner “) who-

(a) has been an officer or servant of any local authority and has retired from the service of that authority and who, at the date of such retirement, was-

(i) in receipt of a salary on a rupee scale, and

(ii) not a member of the Local Government Service; or

(b) has been an employee of any Provincial Committee or District Committee and has retired from the service of such Committee before its dissolution,

such monthly pension shall, with effect from October 1, 1957, be increased in accordance with the following provisions: –

(1) Where such pensioner has retired from service on or before January 1, 1946, the pension which is being paid to him shall be increased in the manner set out in Schedule A hereto.

(2) Where such pensioner has retired from service after January 1, 1946, and before April 2, 1955, the pension which is being paid to him shall be increased in the manner set out in Schedule B hereto.

Increase in pension deemed to be paid under the written law under which the pension is being paid.

3. The amount of any increase in pension payable in pursuance of the provisions of section 2, shall be-

(a) paid by the same authority as that by which the pension is being paid, and

(b) deemed for all purposes to be paid under the written law under which the pension is being paid, notwithstanding anything in such written law.

Interpretation.

4. In this Act-

“local authority” means any Municipal Council, Urban Council, Town Council or Village Council;

Cap. 194.

” Provincial Committee ” and ” District Committee ” means a Provincial Committee and a District Committee, respectively, constituted under the Thoroughfares Ordinance and later dissolved under the Roads (Transfer of Control) Act.

SCHEDULE A

(a) Where the basic monthly pension (unreduced) is less than Rs. 50, such pension shall be increased by an amount equal to such pension, subject to maximum increase of Rs. 12.50.

(b) Where the basic monthly pension (unreduced) is not less than Rs. 50, but is less than Rs. 100, such pension shall be increased by an amount equal to 20 per centum of such pension.

(c) Where the basic monthly pension (unreduced) is not less than Rs. 100, but is less than Rs. 300, such pension shall be increased by an amount equal to 10 per centum of such pension.

(d) Where the basic monthly pension (unreduced) is not less than Rs. 300, but is less than Rs. 500, such pension shall be increased by an amount equal to 7 per centum of such pension.

(e) Where the basic monthly pension (unreduced) is not less than Rs. 500, such pension shall be increased by an amount equal to 5 per centum of such pension, subject to a maximum increase of Rs. 50.

2. Where the amount to which a pension may be increased in accordance with the provisions of paragraph 1 is less than the amount to which that pension might have been increased if it had been smaller, that pension shall be increased to the last-mentioned amount.

SCHEDULE B

(a) Where the basic monthly pension (unreduced) is less than Rs. 50, such pension shall be increased by an amount equal to such pension, subject to a maximum increase of Rs. 2.50.

(b) Where the basic monthly pension (unreduced) is not less than Rs. 50, but is less than Rs. 100, such pension shall be increased by an amount equal to 5 per centum of such pension.

(c) Where the basic monthly pension (unreduced) is not less than Rs. 100, but is less than Rs. 300, such pension shall be increased by an amount equal to 3 per centum of such pension.

(d) Where the basic monthly pension (unreduced) is not less than Rs. 300, but is less than Rs. 500, such pension shall be increased by an amount equal to 2 per centum of such pension.

(e) Where the basic monthly pension (unreduced) is not less than Rs. 500, such pension shall be increased by an amount equal to 1 per centum of such pension, subject to a maximum increase of Rs. 12.50.