Section 23

The terms and conditions to be drawn up by the Office must take into account the salaries and terms and conditions of service, including any accrued rights to leave, enjoyed by the persons transferred to the service of the Office under section 22 while in the employment of the Government.

Any term or condition relating to the length of service with the Office must provide for the recognition of service under the Government by the persons transferred under section 22 to be service by them under the Office.

Nothing in the terms and conditions of service to be drawn up by the Office adversely affects the conditions that would have been applicable to persons transferred to the service of the Office as regards any pension, gratuity or allowance payable under the Pensions Act 1956.

Where a person has been transferred to the service of the Office under section 22, the Government is liable to pay to the Office such portion of any pension, gratuity or allowance payable to the person on the person’s retirement as the same bears to the proportion which the aggregate amount of the person’s pensionable emoluments during the person’s service with the Government bears to the aggregate amount of the person’s pensionable emoluments during the person’s service under both the Government and the Office.

Where any person in the service of the Office, whose case does not fall within the scope of any pension or other scheme established under this section, retires or dies in the service of the Office or is discharged from that service, the Office may grant to the person or to such other person or persons wholly or partly dependent on that person, as the Office thinks fit, such allowance or gratuity as the Office may determine.