Section 17

The Minister shall make rules to provide for the payment to every person mentioned in section 15(b) of benefits not less in value than the amount of any pension, gratuity or allowance for which such person or his dependants would have been eligible under the Pensions Act [Cap. 225] and the regulations made thereunder, had he continued to be in the service of the Government. Nothing in such rules shall adversely affect any conditions that would have been applicable to such pension, gratuity or allowance under that Act or those regulations.[18