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Regulation 3

of Merchant Shipping (Staff Transfer) Rules

Regulation 3

Rights of transferred staff

Subregulation 1

Every transferred officer who immediately before his transfer held a post which was a pensionable office under the Pensions Act [Cap. 225] shall be deemed for the purposes of that Act to continue to hold such office so long as he is in the employment of the Authority and shall be eligible for the grant of a pension or gratuity as though his service under the Authority was service under the Government.

Subregulation 2

Every transferred officer who immediately before his transfer held a post in which he would in the ordinary course by effluxion of time have become pensionable under the Pensions Act shall be deemed for the purpose of that Act to hold the said post so long as he is in the employment of the Authority and shall be eligible for the grant of a pension or gratuity as though his service under the Authority was service under the Government.

Subregulation 3

Where a transferred officer dies during his service with the Authority, there shall be paid to such of his dependants or if there are no dependants to his legal personal representatives a gratuity in accordance with section 16 of the Pensions Act.