Section 33, **The Sierra Leone Housing Corporation Act, 1982** [Margin: Short title.]

(1) The provisions of this section shall apply to officers who on the Vesting Day— [Margin: Employment or Secondment of established officers.] (a) are within the provisions of any enactment or Government General Order relating to pension or gratuities, and A 96 No. 5 Sierra Leone Housing Corporation 1982 (b) have either— (i) accepted employment with the Corporation; or (ii) been selected by the Corporation with the agreement of Government for secondment to the service of the Corporation: Provided that nothing in this section shall be construed so as to preclude an officer to whom it applies from applying at any time within any period of secondment to be posted to a Government department in accordance with the terms and conditions of service attaching to the appointment held by such officer at the Vesting Day, and, upon any such application being made, the same consideration shall be given thereto as though the applicant had not been seconded. (2) Within the period of one year from the commencement of his secondment the Corporation shall offer to each officer seconded to the service of the Corporation permanent employment with the Corporation, upon terms and conditions generally not less favourable then those attaching to the appointment under the Government held by such officer at the Vesting Day. (3) Every officer to whom the provisions of this section apply who has accepted or who accepts permanent employment with the Corporation shall, for all purposes other than contribution under any Widows' and Orphans' Pension Scheme as hereinafter mentioned, be deemed to have ceased to be in the service of the Government on the Vesting Day: Provided that such officer shall not become entitled to receive any pension or gratuity under the Pensions Act merely because he is deemed to have ceased to be in the service of the Government under this section. [Margin: Cap. 173.] (4) For the purposes of such permanent employment the Corporation shall establish in respect of all officers to whom this section applies a scheme or schemes of pensions, retiring allowances or gratuities not less favourable than the scheme or schemes of pensions, retiring allowances or gratuities, applicable to such officers under any Act or Government General Orders in force at the date of the Vesting Day. For the purpose of this sub-section a scheme of pensions does not include widows' and orphans' pensions schemes. (5) Upon the expiration of the period of one year specified in subsection (2) any seconded officer who has not accepted permanent employment with the Corporation under the provisions of this section, and who cannot continue to be employed by the No. 5 Sierra Leone Housing Corporation 1982 A 97 Government in any suitable capacity shall be deemed to have retired from the service of the Government in consequence of the abolition of his office, or, if such officer is, at that date, entitled to any period of leave, on such later date as will enable him to take such leave and the provisions of any Act relating to pensions or of any Government General Orders relating to retiring allowances or gratuities applicable to such officer shall apply accordingly: Provided that the Corporation may, with the consent of the officer, at any time before the expiration of such period of one year terminate the secondment of any officer who does not desire to accept permanent employment with the Corporation and, in such case, the provisions of this sub-section shall apply as if the said period of one year had expired on the date of such termination. (6) The Corporation shall pay, in respect of any period of secondment of any officer to whom the provisions of this section apply who does not accept permanent employment with the Corporation under the provisions of this section, such contributions to the cost of the pension, retiring allowance or gratuity of such officer as shall be agreed between the Government and Corporation.