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AN ACT TO MAKE SPECIAL PROVISION TO ENABLE: EMPLOYEES OF THE COLOMBO PORT COMMISSION WHO WERE ABSORBED BY THE SRI LANKA PORTS AUTHORITY AND WHO DID NOT QUALIFY FOR THE GRANT OF A PENSION, TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR THE GRANT OF A PENSION ; AND TO PROVIDE FOR MATTERS CONNECTED THEREWITH OR INCIDENTAL THERETO.
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BE it enacted by the Parliament of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka as follows: “
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[26th September
, 1990 ]
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Short title.
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1. This Act may be cited as the Sri Lanka Ports Authority (Special Provisions) Act, No. 36 of 1990.
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Grant of pension to employees of Colombo Port Commission absorbed by the Ports Authority and not eligible for pension under section 17 of the Sri Lanka Ports Authority Act
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2. Every officer or servant of the Sri Lanka Ports Authority (hereinafter referred to as the “Ports Authority”), whose service when added to the period of service in the Colombo Port Commission amounts to ten years or more, not being a person who is in receipt of a pension under section 17 of the Sri Lanka Ports Authority Act, No. 51 of 1979, whose substantive post in the Colombo Port Commission is declared to be pensionable under the Minutes on Pensions, shall be deemed to have held such post for the relevant period of service and shall be eligible for the grant of a pension under the Minutes on Pensions at the end of such period.
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” Relevant period of service ” in relation to a person to whom this section applies, means the period for which such person would have had to serve in the Colombo Port Commission to complete ten year pensionable service therein had he remained therein after the date of his appointment to a post on the Staff of the Ports Authority.
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Condition to be satisfied before award is made.
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3. Every person who becomes eligible for the grant of a pension under section 2 shall receive such pension subject to a refund”
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(a) which shall be made by him or his heirs, to the De-rector of Pensions, of any gratuity paid to him upon his accepting permanent employment with the Ports Authority;
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(b) which shall be made to the Treasury by the Commissioner of Labour, or, where such person has received his contribution to the Employees’ Provident Fund, by that person or his heirs of all contributions to the Employees’ Provident Fund made by the Ports Authority in respect of such person for the period commencing on the date on which such person was employed by the Ports Authority and ending on the date on which he became or becomes eligible for the grant of a pension under section 2 of this Act.
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Sinhala text to prevail in case of inconsistency.
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4. In the event of any inconsistency between the Sinhala and Tamil texts of this Act, the Sinhala text shall prevail.
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