Clause 2

Section 3 of the Pensions Ordinance, 1956, is hereby amended by inserting immediately after subsection (4) thereof the following new subsection: —“(5) The regulations made under this section may provide that where a person has rendered full-time national service pursuant to section 10 of the Enlistment Act, 1970 (Act of 1970), or pursuant to the provisions of any written law repealed by that Act (whether such service was rendered before or after that person became the holder of a pensionable office) the period of his entire full-time national service may be treated, to such extent and on such conditions as may be specified in the regulations, as pensionable service and that that service shall be deemed to be “public service” and that person shall be deemed to have been or to have continued to be, as the case may be, an officer in the public service for the period of that full-time national service for the purposes of this Ordinance.”.