Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2022C00288:section:38
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2022C00288
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 38
Character Range: 21061–22653

38  Pension on retirement after 20 years' service for pension—officers
 (1) This section applies to an officer who:
 (a) is a contributor;
 (b) has completed 20 years' service for pension; and
 (c) is not entitled to invalidity benefit.
 (2) An officer to whom this section applies is entitled, on his retirement on or after attaining the retiring age for the rank held by him, to pension in accordance with the succeeding provisions of this section.
 (3) Subject to this Act, the rate at which pension is payable under this section to an officer whose age on the date of his retirement is 60 years or more is an amount per annum ascertained by multiplying the amount of $91 by the number that is his category number on that date.
 (3A) Subject to this Act, the rate at which pension is payable under this section to an officer whose age on the date of his retirement is less than 60 years is the amount per annum that would be the rate applicable to him under subsection (3) if he had attained the age of 60 years on that date multiplied by the factor set out in the third column of the Second Schedule opposite to the age set out in the first column of that Schedule that is his age on that date.
 (4) Where an officer has completed more than 2 years' service after attaining the retiring age for the rank held by him, the pension payable to him under this section shall be the pension that would have been so payable if he had retired upon completing 2 years' service after attaining that retiring age.
 (5) This section does not apply to a person who retires on or after 1 October 1972.