Schedule., The Retirement Benefits Short title

CHAPTER 292. RETIREMENT BENEFITS FOR PUBLIC OFFICERS. An Ordinance to Provide for the Earlier Retirement of certain 42 of 1959. Public Officers and for the Grant of Pensions to such Officers on their Retirement. [31ST DECEMBER, 1959.] 1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Retirement Benefits Short title. for Public Officers Ordinance. 2. The provisions contained in the Schedule to this Ordinance shall have effect in relation to the public service of Sierra Leone. Provisions of Schedule to have effect in relation to public service of Sierra Leone. 3. (1) Subject to the provisions of this Ordinance, any Afplica:tion pensions law enacted in Sierra Leone that applied immediately fa!s~nswns before the commencement of this Ordinance in relation to any person in respect of his service in the public service of Sierra Leone or in relation to the dependants of any such person in respect of any such service shall continue to apply in relation to that person or to those dependants as the case may be. (2) Subject to the provisions of this Ordinance, any pension, gratuity or other like benefit that may be granted to any person who is appointed to the public service of Sierra Leone after the commencement of this Ordinance or to the dependants of any such person shall be governed by the law in force on the Sec. 2. Interpretation. Cap. 292] Retirement Benefits for Public Officers date on which that person is first appointed to a pensionable office in that public service or by any law made thereafter that is not less favourable to that person or his dependants, as the case may be, and is applicable in his or their case. (3) Where any person is entitled to exercise an option whether one of two or more laws shall apply in his case, the law specified by him in exercising the option shall, for the purposes of this section, be deemed to be more favourable than the other laws. (4) In this section- " pensions law" means a law that governs the grant of pensions, gratuities and other like benefits; "dependants" in relation to any person means the widow, children, dependants and personal representatives of that person.