Second Schedule SECOND SCHEDULESupplementary
[Section 2] * Pensions (Entitled Officers) Ordinance 1956 Section 4 [Ord. 17 of 1956] *Entitled Officers (Gratuities) Ordinance 1956 Section 4 [Ord. 21 of 1956] The Federation of Malaya Agreement 1948 Tenth Schedule [F.M.G.N. 6 of 1948] Part 1, paragraphs 3 and 5 Retirement from the Public Service (Compensation) Section 3 Ordinance 1956 [Colony of Singapore Ord. 43 of 1956] or the corresponding provisions of any law in force in the Colony which may be substituted therefor. * NOTE—Pensions (Entitled Officers) Ordinance 1956 and Entitled Officer (Gratuities) Ordinance 1956 has been repealed by Ordinance 28/1957. APPENDIX [Sections 11, 12 and 13 of the Widows’ and Orphans’ Pensions (Amendment and Extended Application) Ordinance 1950 [No. 75 of 1950] are reproduced below for the purpose of convenience] Extension, repeal and transitory provisions 11. (1) Subject as hereinafter provided, the Enactment* as amended by the foregoing provisions of this Ordinance shall be deemed to have had effect throughout the territories now comprised in the Federation as from 1 April 1946. (2) The Widows’ and Orphans’ Pension Ordinance [S.S. Cap. 79] is hereby repealed with effect from 1 April 1946. (3) No public servant, to whom the Enactment applies and who at any time before the date of publication in the Gazette of this Ordinance, was in the service of the Government of any of the territories now comprised in the Federation where no provision was made by law for the granting of pensions to widows and orphans or was an officer serving on probation or on agreement, shall be liable, by reason only this section, to make contributions in respect of the period from 1 April 1946, to the aforementioned date or have any rights under the Enactment: Provided that every such public servant may, by notice in writing to be given to the Directors (appointed under section 2 of the Enactment) not later than three months from the date of publication in the Gazette of this Ordinance, or such further period as the Directors may in any particular case allow elect to become a contributor under the Enactment with effect from 1 April 1946, or, if, on that date he was not in the service of the Government, from the date on which he entered such service, and, if, within a period of one year, he makes a lump sum payment to the Directors equal to the monthly abatements which would have been made from his salary had the Enactment, as extended by this Ordinance, been in force, he shall deemed to have become a contributor as from 1 April 1946, or the date on which he entered the service of the Government, as the case may be, and, as from such date, he shall be deemed to have enjoyed all the rights and to have been subject to all the liabilities under the Enactment, as extended by this Ordinance. (4) All monthly abatements made from the salary or pension of any public servant under the Enactment or under the Widows’ and Orphans’ Pension Ordinance in respect of the period between 1 April 1946, and the date on which this Ordinance is published in the Gazette, shall be deemed to have been made under and for the purposes of the Enactment as extended by this Ordinance. * NOTE—Refers to Widow’s and Orphans’ Pension Act (see s. 2 of Widows and Orphans Pensions (Amendment and Extended Application) Ordinance 1950 [No. 75 of 1950]. (5) Officers who immediately before 1 April 1946, were— (a) in the service of the Colony of the Straits Settlements; (b) serving in the Settlement of Penang or Malacca; and (c) contributors under the Widows’ and Orphans’ Pension Ordinance of the said Colony, shall, as from the aforementioned date be deemed to have been transferred to the Government of the Malayan Union under and in accordance with the provisions of the Enactment as extended by this Ordinance. (6) Where in the Enactment, as extended by this Ordinance, any period of time is specified for the doing of any act by a contributor or by any other person, such period shall begin to run from the date of the event mentioned in the Enactment for the running of such period or from the date on which this Ordinance is published in the Gazette, whichever is the later. (7) Where at any time before the date on which this Ordinance is published in the Gazette, a contributor whose official income became reduced, whether by reduction of salary or by his retirement on pension, has given notice under section 6 of the Enactment, of his desire to continue his rate of contribution according to the full amount of contribution paid by him at the date of such reduction or retirement, then notwithstanding the provisions of the Enactment— (a) such contributor may revoke the option so exercised; or (b) if he has revoked such option before the date on which this Ordinance is published in the Gazette, such revocation shall be deemed to have been validly and legally made and accepted by the Directors (as defined in section 2 of the Enactment). Interpretation of “salary” 12. For the avoidance of doubt it is hereby declared and enacted that in the Enactment and in the Widows’ and Orphans’ Pension Ordinance the word “salary” shall mean and be deemed at all times to have meant the salary attached to a pensionable office, or, in the case of an officer serving in a pensionable class, the salary payable to such officer as an officer in such class, as the case may be, together in either case with any personal pensionable allowance and expatriation pay (if any) but exclusive of acting pay or other allowance. SPECIAL PROVISIONS REGARDING OFFICERS TRANSFERRED FROM PALESTINE Special provisions regarding lump sum payment of contributions by officers transferred from Palestine to the Federation 13. Notwithstanding anything contained in the Enactment, an officer who was a contributor under the Palestine Widows’ and Orphans’ Pensions Ordinance 1944, immediately before 15 May 1948, and who is transferred to the service of the Government of the Federation may, not later than three months after such transfer or after the commencement of this Ordinance, whichever is the later, make a lump sum payment to the Directors, appointed under the Enactment, equal to the accumulated contributions paid by him and by the Government of Palestine on his behalf under the aforesaid Palestine Ordinance. LAWS OF MALAYSIA WIDOWS AND ORPHANS PENSION ACT 1915