Section 2, **The Pensions and Retiring Benefits of Presidents and Vice-Presidents Act, 1986** [Margin: Short title.]

(1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires— "child" includes an illegitimate child and an adopted child, being below the age of twenty-one years and unmarried; "the Constitution", means the constitution of Sierra Leone, 1978 (Act No. 12 of 1978); and "retired President" or "retired Vice-President" means any person who has held the office of President of Sierra Leone or Vice-President and who retires from that office on or after the 1st day of March, 1985; "widow" includes a "widower". (2) Any reference to retirement in this Act shall, in the case of a President, be deemed to include a reference to a person who ceases to hold the office of President by effluxion of time and is not re-elected to that office and also a person who ceases to hold that office under section 30 of the Constitution: Provided that any such person who ceases to hold that office under section 30 of the Constitution shall only be entitled to enjoy such retiring benefits prescribed in relation to the office of President in Part III of this Act or part thereof as may be determined by the Cabinet. (3) Any reference to retirement under this Act does not include a reference to a person ceasing to hold office as President under section 31 of the Constitution. (4) Any reference in this Act to retirement in the case of a person holding the office of Vice-President, shall be deemed to apply only to a person who ceases to hold that office by resignation of his office or by the dissolution of Parliament or by reason of his being incapacitated by illness from performing the functions of that office: No. 2 *Pensions and Retiring Benefits of Presidents and Vice-Presidents* 1986 A5 Provided that any person who ceases to hold that office by reason of his being incapacitated by such illness shall only be entitled to enjoy such of the retiring benefits prescribed in relation to the office of Vice-President in Part III of this Act or part thereof as may be determined by the Cabinet. PART II—PENSION AND GRATUITY [Margin: Pension for retired President and Vice-President.]