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- (b) notwithstanding that he may not have completed at the date of his retirement the period of qualifying service required by the appropriate law to render him eligible for the grant of a pension.
- (4) Where an officer to whom this paragraph applies retires by reason of ill-health in circumstances in which he could under the appropriate law be granted an additional pension the provisions of this paragraph shall have effect in relation to that officer as if references to the pension that may be granted under the appropriate law included references to that additional pension.
- (5) Where an officer to whom this paragraph applies retires by reason of injury or in consequence of the abolition of his office or for the purpose of facilitating improvements in the organisation of the part of the public service to which he belongs by which greater economy or efficiency may be effected in circumstances in which he could under the appropriate law be granted an additional pension, the provisions of this paragraph shall have effect in relation to that officer as if references to the pension that may be granted under the appropriate law did not include references to that additional pension.
- (6) For the purposes of this paragraph the amount of the pension that an officer who is required to retire under paragraph 4(4)(b) or (c) or paragraph 5, 6 or 7 of this Schedule may be granted under the appropriate law shall be calculated as if his annual pensionable emoluments on the date by reference to which his compensation is finally assessed under paragraph 2 of this Schedule were the emoluments to be taken for computing his pension under the appropriate law.
- (7) If an officer has not exercised the option conferred upon him by sub-paragraph (2) of this paragraph within the period in which it is required to be exercised he shall be deemed to have opted for the grant of a pension of such amount as may be granted under the appropriate law.
(8) In this paragraph—
"the appropriate factor" in relation to an officer means the factor obtained from Table III of the Annex to this Schedule that is appropriate to the age of that officer at his retirement reckoned in completed years and completed months;
"the permitted fraction"—
- (a) in relation to an officer who retires within one year of the operative date, means three-quarters; and
- (b) in relation to an officer who retires within not less than one year of the operative date, means such fraction as is obtained by subtracting one-sixteenth for each complete year of his pensionable service after the operative date from three quarters:
Provided that in reckoning for the purposes of this sub-paragraph the years of pensionable service of an officer who is granted leave of absence pending his retirement, leave of absence granted in respect of service prior to the operative date enjoyment of which had on the operative date been deferred shall not be taken into account.
Special gratuity for certain officers.
9. (1) Subject to the provisions of paragraphs 16 and 17 of this Schedule, where any entitled officer to whom Part III of the Schedule to the Pensions Ordinance of North Borneo applies retires under this Schedule and is granted by any government or other authority that is a scheduled government for the purposes of that Part both a pension and a gratuity, having elected to receive that pension and that gratuity in lieu of a pension of greater amount, he may be granted (in addition to any gratuity that may be granted to him under paragraph 8 of this Schedule) a gratuity equal to the amount (if any) by which the amount produced by—- No. 10760
