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         LAWS OF GOLD COAST

       GOLD COAST

PENSIONS (SPECIAL PROVISIONS) ACT, 1959 (NO. 69 OF 1959)

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

Section

1. Short Title

PART I—AMENDMENT TO PENSIONS ORDINANCE

2. Service with United Nations Organisation to be public service.

PART II—SPECIAL PROVISIONS

3. Pension to cease where deportation order made.

4. Pension suspended where preventive detention order made.

5. Pension rights of D. A. Chapman.

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Assented to in Her Majesty's Name and on Her Majesty's behalf this 27th day of November, 1959.

LISTOWEL

Governor-General

AN ACT to amend the Pensions Ordinance and to make special provision as to payment of pensions in certain cases.

Date of Commencement: 2nd December, 1959.

BE IT ENACTED by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the National Assembly of Ghana in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same as follows:—

Section 1—Short Title.

This Act may be cited as the Pensions (Special Provisions) Act, 1959.

PART I—AMENDMENT TO PENSIONS ORDINANCE

Section 2—Service with United Nations Organisation to be Public Service.

Cap. 30

(1) This section shall be read together with, and form part of the Pensions Ordinance.

(2) Section 2 of the Pensions Ordinance is amended by the insertion after subsection (1) of the following new subsection,—

“(1A.) Service with the United Nations Organisation shall be deemed to be public service for the purposes of this Ordinance, and paragraph 8 of the Schedule shall be read and construed so as to include the United Nations Organisation as a Scheduled Government in respect of any officer appointed to service with that Organisation on or after the commencement of the year 1946.”

PART II—SPECIAL PROVISIONS

Section 3—Pension to Cease where Deportation Order Made.

1957 No. 14.

(1) Where before or after the coming into operation of this Act any person is the subject of an order made under the Deportation Act 1957,—

(a) contributions made by him or on his behalf to a pension fund or scheme and any earned retiring award or allowance accruing due to him or to any dependant of such person under the provisions of any Act shall be forfeited and paid into the Consolidated Fund;

(b) any pension or allowance granted or awarded under the provisions of any Act shall, on the publication of the order, cease to be paid to that person or his dependants, as the case may be;

(c) nothing in any Act which confers a right to continue to rank for any benefit if as an officer he is dismissed from service with the Government of Ghana shall apply to any person affected by this section, and any such right if accrued due shall cease and determine, and any moneys shall be retained in or paid into the Consolidated Fund as the case may require.

Section 4—Pension Suspended where Preventive Detention Order Made.

17 of 1958 Cap. 30.

(1) If any person is detained under the Preventive Detention Act, 1958, or where not detained is the subject of an order made under that Act, any pension or allowance granted or awarded under the Pensions Ordinance before the making of the order shall, during the currency of that order, cease to be payable to that person or his dependants as the case may be. Where an order made under the provisions of the Preventive Detention Act, 1958 ceases to have effect, any pension or allowance suspended under this Act shall be restored; but no restoration shall have retrospective effect, and the pension or allowance shall be payable as if it had been granted or made when the order ceased to have effect.

(2) This section shall be deemed to have come into operation on the 1st day of April, 1959 and shall apply in relation to any order made under the Preventive Detention Act 1958 before the coming into operation of this Act as well as to any later order.

Section 5—Pension Right of D. A. Chapman.

Cap. 30.

Whereas Daniel Ahmling Chapman being a person to whom the provisions of a pension scheme under the Pensions Ordinance applied, duly resigned from service with the Achimota School Council in the then Gold Coast, and for reasons connected with his appointment to service with the United Nations Organisation it is expedient and necessary to make provision for the continuance of his entitlement as if the resignation never had effect: Be It Therefore Enacted as follows:—

For the purpose of determining the rights of the said Daniel Ahmling Chapman to a superannuation benefit or other pension on his retirement from service with or on behalf of the Government of Ghana after the passing of this Act, the period during which he ceased to be a person to whom the provisions of a pension scheme applied shall, upon the refund by him to the Government of Ghana of the total sum of seven hundred and fifty pounds, be treated for all the purposes of the Pensions Ordinance as if he were a person to whom such provisions as aforesaid had never ceased to apply, and the Pensions Ordinance shall have effect accordingly.

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

K. B. AYENSU

Clerk of the National Assembly.

 

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