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AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE PAYMENT OF PENSIONS, GRATUITIES, AND RETIRING ALLOWANCES TO CERTAIN LOCAL GOVERNMENT SERVICE EMPLOYEES WHO HAVE RETIRED FROM SERVICE AND FOR MATTERS CONNECTED THEREWITH.
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BE It enacted by the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and the House of Representatives of Ceylon in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: –
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[1st June
, 1969 ]
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Short title.
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1. This Act may be cited as the Local Government Service Employees (Special Pension Provisions) Act, No. 13 of 1969.
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Payment of pension, &c., to certain transferred members of the Local Government Service.
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(1) Every member of the Local. Government Service who was a transferred member to whom the Local Government Service Pension Scheme Regulations, 1952, published in Gazette Extraordinary No. 10,429 of July 30, 1952, as subsequently amended did not apply, and who had on or before June 30, 1964, retired from such service on the ground of his inability to work, in the Sinhala language, shall notwithstanding anything in the Local Government Service Ordinance or in any other written law, be deemed to have retired from such service on the ground of ill health under the by-laws, or rules of the local authority in whose employ he was on the day immediately preceding the day he became a transferred member; and accordingly, may be awarded by the Local Government Service Commission a pension, gratuity or retiring allowance in accordance with the provisions of section 58 of the Local Government Service Ordinance,
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(2) The provisions of sections 59 and 60 of the Local Government Service Ordinance shall apply to every pension, gratuity or retiring allowance awarded under subsection (1) of this section.
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The date from which a pension or retiring allowance is payable.
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3. The pension or retiring allowance awarded to any person under section 2 of this Act shall be pay able from the date on which such person retired from the Local Government Service,
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Interpretation.
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4. In this Act-
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” local authority ” has the same meaning as in the Local Government Service Ordinance;
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” Local Government Service ” means the Local Government Service constituted under section 15 of the Local Government Service Ordinance;
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” Local Government Service Commission mean; the Local Government Service Commission established under section 2 of the Local Government Service Ordinance; and
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” transferred member ” means a person who has been transferred to the Local Government Service under section 55 or section 63 of the Local Government Service Ordinance.
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