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Auditor-General (Extension of Prescribed Age) BELIZE: AUDITOR-GENERAL (EXTENSION OF PRESCRIBED AGE) BILL, 2022 ARRANGEMENT OF CLAUSES 1.

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Interpretation.

Extension of prescribed age.

Constitutional provisions to apply.

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Commencement.

Auditor-General (Extension of Prescribed Age) BELIZE: Short title.

Interpretation.

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Extension of prescribed age.

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BILL for AN ACT to extend the prescribed age of a person to hold office as Auditor-General or to act as Auditor-General; and to provide for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.

(Gazetted ................................., 2022) BE IT ENACTED, by and with the advice and consent of the House of Representatives and the Senate of Belize and by the authority of the same, as follows: 1.
This Act may be cited as the, AUDITOR-GENERAL (EXTENSION OF PRESCRIBED AGE) ACT, 2022.

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In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, “Auditor-General" means the Auditor-General appointed under section 109 of the Belize Constitution.

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In accordance with section 109(4) of the Belize Constitution providing that the Auditor-General shall vacate his office upon attaining the age of sixty-years or such other age as the National Assembly prescribes, a person appointed to hold office, or to act, as Auditor-General under section 109 of the Belize Constitution may hold office until that person attains the age of 65 years.

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All other provisions of the Belize Constitution in relation to the Auditor-General appointed thereunder, shall apply to a person whose appointment is extended under this Act.

5.–(1) Notwithstanding section 3, the commencement of this Act, to hold office, or to act, as Auditor-General under section 3, shall remain and be eligible for pension at the age of 60 years notwithstanding the appointment to hold office, or to act as, Auditor-General until the age of 65 years.
the person appointed, on Auditor-General (Extension of Prescribed Age) (2) A person appointed, immediately on the commencement of this Act, under section 3, shall not be eligible for additional pension benefits on account of the further appointment to office.

This Act shall be deemed to have come into force on September 1, Commencement.

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