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,� 'if'= December, 1951.

A BRITISH GUL--\N ORDINANCE No.

42 OF 1951.

AN ORDINANCE further to amend the Teachers Pensions ... with respect Ordinance Pension Register.

BE IT ENACTED by the Governor of British , to the rate of pension and the Teachers advice and consent of the Legislative follows:- 1.This Ordinance may be cited as the Teachers Ordinance, 1951, and shall be constrned Ordinance, hereinafter Cap.

197 Short Title.
197 Short Title.

Pensions .�nd read referred (Amendment) as one with the Teachers to as the Principal Pensions Ordinance.

Gui&nn, with the A.D. 1951. as Council thereof, ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- No.

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J THE LAWS OF BRITISH GUIANA.

[ A.D. 1951.

2 of Insertion new· section 3B in the Princip,al Ordinance.
- 2.The Principal Ordinance as amended from time to time three A, after section everv teacher ·to the provisions amended by the insertion, new section is hereby further of the following "New rate 3B.

(1) Subject of pension and fifteen of this Ordinai-i'ce to whom in respect th' t· 1· of certain 1s sec �on a�p 1es may, on 1s renrE:i:nen .. a� a Leac er · -" t _._ h of the teachers.

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each month at the rate of or on his retirement Colony, be granted a pension, of his service for pension one seven nundred and twentiet!i of the annual avera.ge amount of his salary as a teacher ('luring the three years immediately retires entered the public service may be.
_ the d9-te upon which he as a teache1,1,1_,gr ,,the date upon which he from· the public service in respect as a teacher, of the Colony as the case preceding h - i of sections four means se1 vice or as an uncertificated of subsection {l) of this (2)For the purposes service Pension Register.
section,· whether as a certificated teacher, for pe�sion as a teacher teacher in the Teachers as entered (3)A pension granted under subsection not exceed one-half of the salary of this section shall of the teacher at the date of his retirement or the date preceding that upon which service of the Colony as the case may be.
( <Ji) A teacher may at his option exercisable provided, be paid, in lieu of a pension under subsection (1) i·,f this section, of such pension together equal to ten times the amount a pension at the rate of three fourths with a gratuity so made.

he entered the public' as hereinafter of the reduction (1},.
of this section notice in writing (5)The option referred shall be exercised to the Director to in �ubsection (4) by such teacher giving of Education not later to whom this section applies Option to take reduced pension with grotuity.

,L than the date of his retiremen1(that he desires to receive a reduced pension with gratt1ity."

3.Section four of the Principal Ordinance is hereby amended Amend­ ment of section 4 of the Principal Ordinance.
(a) (b) (c) (d) the section (1) of the words in subsection years of age or upwards"; for the words "fifty-five (b) and for the words ''sixty as subsection (1); for the words "sixty years of by re-numbering by the substitution age or upwards" "fifty-five by the substitution years" in paragraph years" in par.agraph (c') of the proviso to subsection (1) of the words "fifty years" ancl ·'fifty-five ye;;irs" respectively; by the addition " (2) The Governor certificated teacher of fifty�five in Council may require any teacher to retire from service as a at any time after he has attained of the follo,l'ing subsection - years."
the age and A.D. ·Igs1JTEACHERS PENSIONS (AMENDMENT) [ No.

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3 (1) of as inserted Ordinance, 4.

Subsection by section ° 942, is hereby amended - 1 (a)by the substitution two of the Teachers section five (Amendment) me A of the Principal Pensions Ordinance Amend- c!)

it the tA for the words "sixty years" in Prin_cipal a��e.
and ��di;3 of a colon for the full stop at 1942. and the addition thereto years"; f.t 0 paragraph (a) of the words "fifty-five (b)by the substitution the end of the subsection, of the following - proviso "Provided that the Governor in Council may teacher 5.

(1) Section require service attained any uncertificatecl to rE:tire from as a teacher at any time aftef he has the age of fifty-five seven of the Principal years."
Ordinance (Amendment) of the Teachers by section four 1947, is hereby further '·thirty for the words t) years" in subsection (1) of the wo;,-ds "thirty-five (2) This section shall as amended Amend­ men_t of Ordinan:::e, tion � years".

friifiiaf be deemed to have had d'l'ect from Ordinance.

of amended by the substitution Pensions the first day of January, nineteen and including forty-four .

6.The provisions .

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of the Principal two to five inclusive of this Ordinance Ordit1ance, shall apply -- hundred ,.=mid ii4/ Application and of sections of .
0rdinance (a)to every teacher whose name is entered in the Teachers Pension Register and of this Ordinance; subsequent to the coming into effect (b)to every teacher whose name was in the Teachers nir;.eteen in writing on the first day of January, unless he intimates Pension Register hundred and forty-four, to the Director thirtieth that he desires three A, five or five A o( the Principal the case may be, shall continue that the provisions day of June, nineteen of Education as to apply to him; and on or before t!-ie Ordinance, hundred and fifty-two (c)to every teacher whose name was :i.n the Teachers oE sections 1.hree, and who retired day of December, on the thirty-first hundred and forty-three, or from the public service Pension Register nineteen a teacher or after the first clay of January, nineteen hundred and forty-four, of Education nineteen the provisions Ord(nance shall apply to him.
to the Director day of June, • t]1at that he desires Ordinance and of this on or before the thirtieth hundred and fifty-two, and who.intimates of the Principal of the Colony in writing as on ;, 7.Section fifteen from time to time is hereby further (a)by the substitution of the Principal amended - for the words "the names" wherever Ordinance as amended Amend- ment of section 15 (a) and (b) of subsection iti��1pal Ordinance.
with particulars they appear in paragraphs (2), of the words "the names, together for pension"; of their service (b:) by the substitution under this section" in paragraph (b) of subsection (2), for the words "regulations made ,No.

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4 THE LAWS OF BRITISH GUIANA.
[A.D. 1951 of the words "regulations this Ordinance"· (c)by re-numbering as subsection (2B), subsection (2A) as set out in the schEdule to •' I enacted by section five of the Teachers Ordinance, (Amendment) (d)by the insertion - subsection 1947; after subsection (2) of the following Pensions " (2A) Where the name of° a teacher is entered in the Teachers shall forthwith accordingly"; Pension Register thereafter the Director notify the teacher of Education in writing (e)by the repeal tion (4) and by the substitu and of subsection - therefor of the following " ( 4) The qualifications which entries Register section, schedule and conditions may be made in the Teachers (b) of subsection subject to Pension under pai,agraph shall be as set out in the Regulations to this Ordinance."
(2) of this in the is hereby further amended by 8.The Principal Ordinance 15 (4) Schedule - Section thereto of the following as to the qualifications may be made in the Teachers Addition of Schedule the addition to _th"; "SCHEDULE 1 ��:1�� fiJe.

Regulations ject to which entries Register.

Pension Register 1.The Teachers two parts, namely, Part I relating and Part II relating 2.
(1) The name of every certificated teacher who has been examined by a Medical Board and certified physically in a school or schools cated teacher, Register.

as a teacher for 3 consecutiv shall be entered in the Teachers shall be divided into to certificated and who has served e years as a certifi­ Pension and conditions sub- Pension to uncertificated fit for service teachers.
to be teachers, (2)The name of every uncertificated teacher for 10 consecutive who has years to the of the Director, shall be entered in the Teachers served in a school or schools satisfaction Pension Register.

his name shall forthwith thereafter teacher whose name is (3)Where an uncerhficated as such in the Teachers teacher, Pension Register teacher in the Teachers entered a certificated entered as a certificated Register.
3.The Director - Register (a)the name of any teacher wJ10 has died; _(b) the name of any teacher who;,e certificate has been · cancelled; (c)the name of an.1/ teac!1er becomes be Pension shall remove from the Teachers for a period of more than 5 years, to be employed as a teacher schools who has ceased, of the Colo!

"1V: Pension in Provided removed under this paragraph that the i1ame of a teacher shall not be has where such teacher AD.

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42. been appointed section 2 of the Pensions to a pensionabl e office 1933.

Ordinance, has been removed from as defined in to the date of such :cemoval, under paragraph in the Register 3 (c) hereof, until he complied ·with 2 (2) hereof 2 (1) or paragraph refuses Register ns of paragraph from the decision 4.Where the name of a teacher Pension the Teachers his name shall not be re-entered has, subsequent the provisio as the case may be.
5.Where the Director name of a teacher in the Teachers where he removed the name of a teacher Pension Register, such teacher in Council of the Governor 6.The names of all teachers Pension Register subject shall, 5 hereof, 7.There shall be entered the period teacher schools or periods.

8.These Regulations Regulations, Passed by the Legislative to the provisions remain therein.

in Council or periods Council 1951."


to enter or re-ent�r the Pension Register, from the Teachers or may appeal to the Governor of the-Director., shall r.:,e final.
and the decision entered in the Teachers on the date this schedule of Pctragraphs Z comes into force (3), 3, ,1 ;md in the Teachers Pension Register for pension of every whose name i� n1tered therein, and the school or in which the teacher served for any such period of the service may be cited as the Teachers Pension this 9th day o_f November, 1951.

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