LAWS OF GOLD COAST

          PENSIONS (OLD CONDITIONS OF SERVICE) (EXTENSION OF RIGHTS) ORDINANCE,            1955 (NO. 27 OF 1955)

GOLD COAST

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

Section

1. Short Title.

2. Addition of New Section 20 to the Pensions Ordinance Cap. 30.

3. Extension of Pension Rights of Certain Public Officers. Cap. 30 Cap. 29 of 1936 Edition of The Laws.

4. Provision for Future Extension of Pension Rights Under Repealed Ordinance. Cap. 30. Schedule. Cap. 29 and Cap. 30 of 1936 Edition of the Laws.

Assented to in Her Majesty’s Name and on Her Majesty’s behalf this 1st day of December, 1955.

C. N. ARDEN-CLARKE

Governor.

AN ORDINANCE to amend the Pensions Ordinance by the insertion of a provision declaring the pension rights of public officers to whom the conditions of service in force prior to the commencement of the Pensions Ordinance apply, and to provide for the extension of such rights.

Date of Commencement: 3rd December, 1955.

BE IT ENACTED by the Legislature of the Gold Coast, as follows:—

Section 1—Short Title.

This Ordinance may be cited as the Pensions (Old Conditions of Service) (Extension of Rights) Ordinance, 1955.

Section 2—Addition of New Section 20 to the Pensions Ordinance Cap. 30.

Immediately after section 19 of the Pension Ordinance there shall be added the following new section—

20. "Saving of Rights. Cap. 29 and Cap. 30 of 1936 Edition of the Laws. No. 36 of 1940 No. 37 of 1940.

For the avoidance of doubts it is hereby declared that the repeal of the Pensions (European Officers) Ordinance, the Pensions (Non-European Officers) Ordinance, the Pensions (European Officers’ War Service) Ordinance, 1940, and the Pensions (Non-European Officers’ War Service) Ordinance, 1940, has not affected the application of such Ordinances and the Regulations thereunder to those officers who, by the provisions of section 18 of this Ordinance, are excluded from the application of this Ordinance, and nothing herein contained shall be deemed to affect the existing rights of any such officers.”

Section 3—Extension of Pension Rights of Certain Public Officers. Cap. 30 Cap. 29 of 1936 Edition of The Laws.

Where by reason of the provisions of section 18 of the Pensions Ordinance a public officer is excluded from the application of that Ordinance and in consequence his rights under the provisions of the Pensions (European Officers) Ordinance are preserved, the Regulations contained in Schedule 1 to the Pensions (European Officers) Ordinance prior to its repeal shall be construed as if —

(a) for the word “ten”, where it occurs in regulations 19, 30 and 31, there were substituted. with effect from 20th day of May, 1954, the words “twelve and a half”;

(b) there were included in the Schedule to those Regulations all such additional territories or authorities as are for the time being included in the Schedule to the Pension Regulations, with effect in each case from the date when such territory or authority was or hereafter shall be included in the Schedule to the Pensions Regulations.

Section 4—Provision for Future Extension of Pension Rights Under Repealed Ordinance. Cap. 30. Schedule. Cap. 29 and Cap. 30 of 1936 Edition of the Laws.

Where after the commencement of this Ordinance the Pensions Regulations are amended, the Governor may, by Order, provide that the Regulations in the First Schedule to the Pensions (European Officers) Ordinance and in the Schedule to the Pensions (Non European) Officers Ordinance, or either of them, shall, in so far as they continue to have effect, be construed as if an amendment to effect a corresponding alteration therein were included, in such terms as may be specified in the Order, in such Regulations or in either of them, as the case may be; and an amendment affected by any such Order may, for the purpose of conferring a benefit upon or removing a disability attaching to any person, be given retrospective effect to any date not earlier than the date of commencement of the corresponding amendment to the Pensions Regulations.

This printed impression has been carefully compared by me with the Bill which has passed the Legislative Assembly, and found by me to be a true and correctly printed copy of the said Bill.

K. B. AYENSU

Clerk to the Legislative Assembly.