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Bill No.

22 of 1968 PUBLISHED 26TH OCTOBER, 1963 Bill No.

22 of 1968.

PENSIONS (CONSOLIDATION) (AMENDMENT) BILL, 1968.

Section Arrangement of Sections 1.

Short title 2.

Insertion and commencement.

of section 6A in the Principal Ordinance.

A BILL Intituled AN ACT to amend the Pensions (Consolidation) 1957.

Ordinance, Enacted by the Parliament of Guyana:- A.O.

1968 1.
1968 1.

(1) This Act may be cited as the Pensions (Amendment) Act, the PensioJ1Js Principal 1968, and shall be constru Ordinance, (Corn,olidation) Ordinance, and all amendments thereto.

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(Consolidati ed and read as one with :e��i:-nt.

referred hereinafter to as the on) Short t!Ue Ni 38f 0 (2)This Act shall be deemed to have come into operation on 26th May, 1966: 2.
The following as section Ordinance 6A - section is hereby inserted in the Principal Insertion of section 6A in the Principal Ordinance.

··Sccvke a.s Ombuds­ man to be pensionable service.
in circumst provisions office for all intents d to the office of Ombudsman, 6A(l) Where an officer serving in a pensionable of which shall not be prejudiced office pur­ his service in shall be deemed to be service the and purposes, in by anything and, upon his of this section; is appointe suant to such appointment, a pensionable generality the following retirement ingly be granted to him under this Ordinanc.e, so granted retirement otherwise he shall be granted the pension visions o'f this Ordinance, such adaptations purpose.
but for any failure mentioned conform in accordance which shall be construed with as are necessary of the circumstances of his to may accord­ or might be to the requirements ances in which a pension and modifications (2) of this section in subsection with the pro­ for the of this Ordinanc.e, (2)In subsectio n (1) of this section, ment" "retire includes relinquishment circumstances where the officer appoin�d as aforesaid of the office of Ombudsman in - to bis attainment of his term of office as Om- of the age of 65 (a) is not, :lt th,: expiratio.i budsman, prior years, re-appointed public a whole are no less favourable to the office of Ombudsman, by rea:;un qualified or either to that office or appointed of which taken as than those appertaining althoug h he is not dis­ of infirmity of body or mind for or other office the conditions such appointment; to any 2 (b) of this Ordinance, apart from of his term of office an age at which he may by attained has on or before the expiration as Ombudsman, virtue o1 the provisions this section, service General Ombudsman he wishes office of Ombudsman ment to any public to retire and he intimates in writing that on the expiration be permitted neither of his term of office as to be reappointed to the for appoint­ ,ivi to :, � considered or other office but to so retire, from the public to the Governor­ for the purposes of sub­ be deemed to have retired imme­ the office the date on which he so relinquished or on which any period of leave taken by is mentioned relinquishment expired, he shall, in which circumstances section (1) of this section, diately after of Ombudsman him upon such later, graph (a) of this subsection, of service ing to him of a maximum pension section in pensionable (1) of section for the grant­ consistently with sub­ whichever in para­ snch length and, in the case of circumstances 11 of this Ordinance."
office as is required after completing EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM This Bill seeks to provide that when an officer in the public service is appointed as Ombudsman of the Pensions (Consolidation) to the office of Ombudsman as pensionable will be treated Ordinance, service 1957. his period of service for the purpose 2.Under article of office of the Ombudsman provisions which will apply to a public term of office as Ombudsman expires.

52 of the Constitution of Guyana, the term is four years.
This Bill also contains officer so appointed when his P.A.

REID Minister of Finance.