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11• December, 1955.

BRITISH GU.IAN.A.

ORDINANCE NO.

52 OF 1955.

AN ORDINANCE fµrther Enacted by to amend the Pensions Ordinance, 1933.

- of British Guiana: the Legislature A.D. 1955. may be cited as the Pensions 1955, and shall be construed (Amend­ 1.This Ordinance ment No.
3) Ordinance, one with the the Principal 2.Section Pensions Ordinance, nineteen and any Ordinance of the Principal amending two of the Pensions by section 1936, and amended from time to time fa, hereby repealed and the following substituted therefor- Ordinance (Death Gratuities) Ordinance, 1933, hereinafter No.

20 of 1933. and read as to as referred the same.

as substituted Repeal and Ordinance, re-enact­ ment of sec­ tion 19 of the Princi­ pal Ordin­ ance.

No.

14 ot 1936.

Short title.


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52] THE LAWS OF BRITISH GUIANA [A.D. 1955 2 ---------- 'a pensionable .

a non-pensionable ratuity 19.

(1) (a) Where an officer holding 1 "G w 1ere an officer dies office who 1s not on probat10n in the 9er- ficer holding vice or after retirement.
been trans erre rom a pens10na has been confirmed, Colony, his legal personal amount not exceeding emoluments, or his commuted whichever is the greater.
f d f or agreement, or an of- office to which he has e o ce m w 1c e bl ffi · h" h h dies while in the service it shall be lawful for the Governor representative 1 of/ the to grant to a gratuity of an gratuity pension if any, · either his annual pensionable (b) For the purposes (i)"annual pensionable of this sub-section- - means emoluments" which would be taken for of computing or granted to the officer if he had the emoluments the purpose gratuity at the date of his death in the circum­ retired stances ( d) of section in paragraph described eight of this Ordinance; any pension means the pension gratuity" (ii)"commuted if any, which might have been gratuity, to the officer under section twelve granted of this Ordinance had if his public service been wholly in the Colony and if he had re­ tired at the date of his death in the circum­ stances tion eight of this Ordinance and reduced receive (d) of sec­ had elected pension.
(2) Where any such officer to whom a pension, in paragraph described a gratuity to under this has been grant£d from the service or other allowance the sums paid or payable dies after retirement gratuity Ordinance the Colony, and on account in respect amount of the annual pensionable joyed by him at the date of his retirement, it shall be lawful for the Governor representative at his death or other allowance are less than the en­ to grant to his legal personal equal to the deficiency."
of any pension, of any public service emoluments a gratuity gratuity of Passed by the Legislative Council hundred and fifty-five.

this twenty-fourth day of November, nineteen (M.P.

101/7 /14).

(Leg.

Bill No.

54/1955).

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