Widows and Orphans Pension Act 1915 s 4

s 4 Abatement from salaries to be made

(1) A monthly abatement shall be made from the *salary or pension of every public servant, and all such abatements shall be paid to the credit of the Federal Consolidated Fund: Provided that, where an officer is serving on probation or on agreement in a pensionable office, he may, within six months from the date of the commencement of such service or within such extended period as the Directors may in any particular case allow, by giving notice in writing to the Directors of his desire to do so, elect not to become or to cease to be a contributor, as the case may be, and in such case this Act shall cease to apply to such officer, and there shall be repayable to him the total amount of any contributions which he may have made. (2) The abatement referred to in subsection (1) shall be calculated at the rate of four per centum of the monthly salary of the contributor: Provided that unless and until notice has been given as provided in subsection 6(1), the abatement to be made in the case of a contributor who has retired on pension or who has suffered reduction of salary shall be calculated upon the salary drawn by such contributor immediately prior to such retirement or reduction, as the case may be. (3) In the case of an officer holding or having held a post, the salary of which is on a sterling basis, the abatement shall be made in ringgit at four per centum of such salary converted into ringgit Malaysia at the rate from time to time fixed by the Federal Government for the payment of such salaries or pensions. (4) Contributions shall continue to be made on the full salary whenever an officer is on leave of absence with half salary or without salary. (5) An officer who held a non-pensionable office in the service of the Government and had been appointed to a pensionable office * NOTE—Definition of “salary”: section 12 of F.M. Ord. No. 75 of 1950. before 15 June 1970, shall be deemed to have entered into the service of the Government on the date of such appointment: Provided that the Minister may from time to time by notification in the Gazette declare any officer, or category or categories of officers to be excluded from this subsection. (6) A depositor in the Federated Malay States Railways Provident Fund shall be deemed to enter the service of the Government on the date upon which he completes 10 years satisfactory service. (7) On the retirement of a public servant who is a depositor in the Federated Malay States Railways Provident Fund the abatements to be made under this Act shall be calculated upon the sum to which he would have been entitled as pension if he had been eligible for a pension under the *Pensions Enactment [Cap. 23].