Pensions (Amendment) Bill

by deleting subsection (4) thereof and substituting therefor the following: —“(4) The President may direct that any pension, gratuity or other allowance granted to an officer retired under paragraph (e) or (j) of subsection (2) of this section be suspended until and take effect from such date, not being later than the date the officer attains the minimum age, as the President may determine:Provided that —

where an officer becomes physically or mentally incapacitated to such an extent that he is incapable of continuing in any employment before he has attained the minimum age, he may be paid the pension, gratuity or other allowance granted to him with effect from the date he is deemed to be so physically or mentally incapacitated;

where an officer dies before he has attained the minimum age, his dependants or legal personal representatives may be paid a gratuity in accordance with the provisions of section 16 of this Act;

no right shall accrue in respect of any pension, gratuity or other allowance during the period such pension, gratuity or other allowance has been suspended.(5) For the purposes of subsection (4) of this section “minimum age” means forty-five years in the case of an officer who is entitled to retire at that age, and fifty years in all other cases.”; and

by renumbering the existing subsection (5) thereof as subsection (6).