s 2 Interpretation
In this Act— “contributor” means and includes every person from whose salary or pension deductions are made in accordance with this Act; “entitled officer” means an entitled officer as defined in any of the laws specified in the first column of the Second Schedule who retires under the provisions of such law specified in the second column of the said Schedule; “of a pensionable age” as applied to children means in the case of a male that he is under the age of twenty-one years and in the case of a female that she is under the age of twenty-one years and has not been married; * NOTE—This Act applies to Peninsular Malaysia only. * “public servant” means a person holding a pensionable office, an officer serving on probation or on agreement in a pensionable office in the service of the Government or a depositor in the Federated Malay States Railways Provident Fund who has completed 10 years’ satisfactory service with the Government, but does not include any person whose salary is less than twenty ringgit a month or who is not restricted by law to one wife at a time or who is appointed to a pensionable office on probation or on agreement in a pensionable office or becomes holder of a pensionable office on or after 15 June 1970; “the Directors” means such persons not less than three in number as may be appointed from time to time by the Yang di- Pertuan Agong to carry out the provisions of this Act subject to the control of and to Rules for their guidance made by the Yang di- Pertuan Agong; “the Government” means the Government of the Federation or the Government of any State or Settlement and in respect of the period from 1 April 1946 to 31 January 1948, means the Government of the Malayan Union.