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| PUBLIC AND JUDICIAL OFFICERS (RETIREMENT) |
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AN ORDINANCE TO PROVIDE FOR THE COMPULSORY RETIREMENT OF PUBLIC OFFICERS AND JUDICIAL OFFICERS.
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| Ordinance Nos, |
| 11 of 1910 |
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| 21 of 1917 |
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[12th August
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Short title.
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1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Public and Judicial Officers (Retirement) Ordinance.
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Power to make rules for compulsory retirement of public or judicial officers.
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(1) The President may make, and when made may revoke, vary, or amend, rules regulating the age at which, the reasons for which, and the conditions subject to which, public or judicial officers shall be required to retire from the public or judicial service.
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(2) In particular and without prejudice to the generality of the power conferred by the preceding subsection, such rules may-
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(a) prescribe the age at which the retirement of public or judicial officers or of any particular class of public or judicial officers shall be compulsory;
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(b) provide, in such cases and subject to such conditions as may be prescribed, for the extension of the employment of public or judicial officers beyond the age prescribed by rule for compulsory retirement, and for the exemption of any particular class of public or Judicial officers from the operation of any rule relating to the compulsory retirement of public or judicial officers;
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(c) prescribe an age earlier than the age at which retirement from the public or judicial service is compulsory at which the authority competent to make the respective appointments may, subject to such conditions as to notice and otherwise as may be prescribed, require public or judicial officers to retire from the public or judicial service.
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3. In this Ordinance, “judicial officer” has the same meaning as in Article 114 of the Constitution, and ” public officer ” has the same meaning as in Article 170 of the Constitution.
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