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,GUYANA No.

2 of 1978 BY-LAWS �f·· i Made Undef •• THE DRAINAGE AND IRRIGATION ACT • ' .

(Cap.

64:03) ' .'

' IN EXERCISE OF THE POWERS CONFERRED BY SECTION 77 OF THE DRAINAGE AND IRRI6NI'ION ACT, THE FOLLOWING BY-LAWS BOARD HAVE BEE!

( )!ADE BY THE DRAINAGE AND IRRIGATION .

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AND APP!iOVED BY T.f#E MINISTER:- may be cit.ed as the Drainage and Irri-c1tat1on anq.

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These By-laws gation (Superannuation ed to have eotne into operation on 1st Januarjr, lenetits) By-laws 1978, and shall be deem-:=.ence- .. .... 1972, · pretaUon.

2.

In these By-laws - "approved appointment" fied in the Schedule; means an appointment and speci- "salary" means the salary attached to an office.

benefit.s shall be granted to any Se"lce not 3.

No superannuation employee in respect of any service while under the age of eigh-� teen years.

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No superannuation .


employee except on his retirement from the service in any one of the following cases - to an emi.a- benefits shall be granted Of the Board � 1.p.

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(a)on or aft.er attaining the age of sixty years or, :i::.
with the approval of the Board, fifty-five or years; benetlw -" (b)on the abolition of bis office; or ann: · .... ..... ==:er:- 2 (c) on medical evidence to t.he satisfaction Board that he is incapable infirmity of duties likely mind or body of discharging o f his office and that such infinnity to be permanent; or (d)on termination of employment in the interest of the by reason of some t.he is of the Board; or (e)on retrenchment.

....., allow-anc"3 to wbo111 .... " •hat rate "' .. """"'· Cap.

27:02 5.
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(1) An employee an appl'Qved appomtment years immediately of the Board, who, at the date of and who, for at least twenty that date, has been his retirement, holds c ontinuous in the service preceding shall be granted an annual allowance.

(2)An annual allowance shall be calculated in accordance with those provisions ment of annual allowances to persons years in a non-pensionable of t.he Pensions Act office.

which govern the pay· who have served twenty to whom an annual allowance 6.
(1) An employee may, at his option in lieu of such annulal allowance fourths of such allowance twelve and one-'half times the amount by which such allowance reduced.
as hereinafter an allowance provided, at t.he rate of t.hree· is granted be paid equal to together with a gratuity exercisable is (2)An option exercisable in accordance wit.h this section­ (a) shall be exercised or revoked by notice in writing alddressed to t.he Minister; and (b) shall be deemed to have been exercised or re­ voked on the date on which .such notice and received; is (c) shall be exercisable and, if exercised, may be on or before the date of retirement or, with t.he permission revoked, of the employee, Minister, t.he date of t.he final award of the annual allow­ to him under these By-laws.
ance granted oft.he at any time between that date and =t;i" i,11t1 7.

An :employee o1 sarY'i:: an approved :=.ryn°i<,r date, has been in the service of the Board for seven continuous a.n annua,1 years, or more, but not exceeding twenty years, who, at t.he date of his retirement,.

·holds preceding and who, imm�iately appointment shall be granted that :imlllffla.nce.

a gratuity pay for each complete month of service.

calculated at the rate of one-eighteenth of a month's .3 9.
For the "111)0Se of computing the amount of the an-���� nual allowance or gratuity.
to be.,grantN to an ,employee, the fol-11.m1ullldlon lowing periotls shall be taken into a,:rount - .... .,,.. (a) any period during which he has been on duty; and (b) any period during which he has been absent from duty on leave with foll salary or on com­ muted leave or on leave on half salAry: Provided that any period during which an em, ploy,ee has been absent on leave on half salary in the next paragraplh of this By.Jaw shall he reckoned afthe.-...t<, of one month for every two months ot such period; and save as provided (c)any period during which he has heen absent from duty on leave either or half salary �r without salary granted on grounds of policy with ffie approval of the Board.
aod during which he has not qualified for pension ln re- spect of other """"""; and any periods during which he l$s heen on leave, other than above, shall be deduct.d from the total servioe those spoolJled of the employee.

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(1) Where an employee is paid at daily, nightly rates, the nntnber of working days in any calendar rear:1 ;1i:;_ to constitute one .v,,ar's service shall be taken as two.

hundred= " and days on J)lald.....;,, « days, inclndini!

public holidays and twlmty-five leave or side leave.
but n-0t Sundays: �pu,.

weekly or fQrt-c�putata,.11;\ Provided that where the serviA;e of an employee is i..s than two hundred and twenty-five secutive calendar yea� such service shall constitute one year's ""'1ce if agg,,,ga!ing two hundred and ·twenty4M> <lays or more.
days in each of any con­ (2) Where there is no official record of any part of the service of an employee, the Board may, on being satisfied beyond all reasonable doubt service being admitted nuation benefits., of such approve superan­ of calculating that sueh service was given, for the purposes 4 s;ttte� na 11.

The Board shall have full power and a,uthority � est " decide all questions that may arise in respect of or in connection :;..� -.

the with the administration of these By-laws.


to SCHEDULE APPROVED APPOINTMENTS Checker Gridman Mechanic/Operator Mecllanic operator-in-charge Open vote clerk Ranger Sluice attendant Watchman Made by the Drainage and Irrigation Board on the 21st day of De­ cember, 1977.

Drainage & Irrigation Board Drainage Board & Irrigation L G. Charles.

Chairman, G. G. A.uanah, Secretary, Approved by the Minister or Agriculture on the 16th day of January, 1978.

G. B. Kennard, Minister of Agriculture.