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Section 36, **The Sierra Leone Housing Corporation Act, 1982** [Margin: Short title.]
Status not yet checked**The Sierra Leone Housing Corporation Act, 1982** [Margin: Short title.], Sierra Leone
(1) The Corporation shall establish a scheme or schemes for the payment of superannuation allowances, pensions or gratuities to officers and servants of the Corporation, who retire from the service of the Corporation, or otherwise cease to hold office, in such circumstances as may be set out in any such scheme or schemes. [Margin: Superannuation and pension schemes, etc.]
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(2) The following provisions shall apply to any scheme established under subsection (1)—
(a) no assurance on the life of any contributor under any such scheme and no moneys or other benefits payable under any such assurance, and no pension, gratuity or other allowance granted under any such scheme shall be assignable or transferable, or liable to be garnished, attached, sequestered or levied upon for or in respect of any debt or claim whatsoever, other than a debt due to the Corporation or to the Government;
(b) no donation or contribution to a fund established under any such scheme or interest therein shall be liable to be attached, sequestered or levied upon for or in respect of any debt or claim whatsoever other than a debt due to the Corporation or the Government;
(c) no such donation or contribution or interest shall be subject to the debts of the contributor, nor shall such donation, contribution or interest pass to a receiver on the bankruptcy of such contributor, but if such contributor is adjudicated a bankrupt or is declared insolvent by a court, such donation or contribution or interest shall, subject to the provisions of this Act, be deemed to be impressed with a trust in favour of the dependants or the contributor or any other person entitled thereto under the provisions of the scheme;
(d) the bankruptcy of a contributor shall not affect the making of deductions from the salary of the contributor in accordance with any such scheme, but such deduction shall continue to be made notwithstanding the provisions of any Act, and the portion of salary so deducted shall not be deemed to form part of his after acquired property;
(e) subject to the provisions of any such scheme, all moneys paid or payable out of any fund established under any such scheme on the death of a contributor shall be deemed to be impressed with a trust in favour of the persons entitled thereto and shall not be deemed to form part of his estate or be subject to the payment of his debts.
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(3) The Corporation may establish a scheme or schemes for the payment of allowances, pensions or gratuities to the dependants of any officer or servant of the Corporation who dies while in the service of the Corporation or after leaving such service in any of the circumstances which may be set out in such scheme or schemes, and the provisions of subsection (2) shall apply to any scheme as though such scheme were a scheme established under subsection (1) and any scheme established under this subsection may be incorporated within a scheme established under subsection (1).
PART X—PROVISIONS RELATING TO LAND
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