The Pensions (Amendment) Act, Short title (1964)

Assented June, 1964. LS No. 24 to in Her Majesty's name this 22nd day of 1964. M S. A. BENKA-COKER, Acting (overnor-General REEDONCE Sierra Leone An Act to Amend the Pensions Act BE IT ENACTED by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and withthe advice and consent of the House of Representatives in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: A 181 Cap. 173 [25th June, 1964.1 Date ofcommence ment. 1, This Act may be cited as the Pensions (Amendment) Act, Short title. AI82 Amend mentof sCtion 8 of Cap 173, Third Schedule. P.N. 78 of 1961. Addition of new Sche. dule to Cap. 173. No. 24 Pensions (Amendmen) with:

Scction & of the Pensions Act is hercby amended by tlhcrenumbering oftheexisting scctionassubscction () and the additionthereto of the following ncw subscctions- (2) The power to remove an officer from lis office, to diseharge clicicntlythe duties thercof shall be vested in the otherws deal with such officer, on the ground of his inability Public Sece Commission, which power shall be exercised in acordane withtherules contained inthe Third Schedule. (3) The Public Service Commission. with the prior aappioval of thec Ministerto whomthe responsibilityfor the public service is for the time beingassigncd, may, by Public Notice published in the Gazette, amend, vary, add to or revoke any of the rules contained in the Third Schedule. (4) For the purposes of tlhis section and the rules containod in the Third Schedule the expression the public service : shall b:ar the meaning assigned to it in subsection (1) of section 107 of the Constitution.".

The Pensions Act is hereby amended by the additionthereto of the following new Schedule

REMOVAL OF A PUBLIC OFFICER ON THE GROUNDS OF GENERAL INEFFICIENCY-RULES 1. Notwithstanding the provisions of any enactment cr Government General Order, if a Head of Department (which expression shall bear the meaning assigned to it in any Regulations made by the Public Service Commission under section 102 of the Constitution) considers that an oficer in the public service should be removed from his office on the ground of his inability to discharge efficiently the duties thereof he shall report the facts to theEstablishment Secretary who shall obtain from the Heads of any Departmentsin which the officer concerned has served statements as to his general standardsof efficiency and shall allow that officer an opportunity of considering all suchstatements and of showing cause why he should not be removed from theservice or otherwise be dealt with for general inefficiency.2. If the Establishment Secretary, after considering the statement (1f any)of the officer concerned, is of opinion that he should be 1emoved fi om the serViceor otheiwise dealt with for general ineficiency he shall forwardto the Secretary of the Public Service Commission the statements of the Heads of Departmens and of the officer concerned with his own recommendation.3. The Public Service Commission, after consideration of the statementsand recomme nendation, referred to in Rule 2., and of any other matter which it Provided that no decision of the Commission affecting the pension rights of such an oficer shall be put into effect until the Same has beenconfirmed by the Governor-Generai." deems desirable having regard to the circumstances, shall decide as to whether the officer concerned should be removed from the service or otherwise dealt No. 24 Pensions (Amendmen) be Passed in the House of Representatives this /3th day of May. in thevear cf our Lord one housand nine hundred and sixty-four. MP. OPM. 558/5 A 183 [HIS PR NIED IRESs ON has been carefully compared by me wilhhe Bill which has passed the House of Representatives and found by me toa true and correctly pin'ed copy of the said Bil!. S. V. WRIGHT, Clerk of the HoUse of Representatives S. V. WRIGHT, Clerk of the House of Representatives.