Act of Parliament · As enacted
Provincial Councils Pensions Act 1993
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s 1Short title and date of operation
This Act may be cited as the Provincial Councils
Pensions Act, No. 17 of 1993, and shall-come into operation
. , / on such date (hereinafter referred to as the “appointed date”) as the Minister may appoint by Order published in
The Minister, may, with the concurrence of the
Minister-in-charge of the subject of Provincial Councils, declare any post in the Provincial Public Service of a
Province or in the Secretarial Staff of a Provincial Council, as the case may be, to be a pensionable post with effect from such date as may be specified in the declaration. (The date so specified may be a date prior to the appointed date)
and accordingly, service in any such post, whether such service was before or after the appointed date, shall be deemed, for the purposes of the Minutes on Pensions, to be service in a pensionable post.
. Ordinance,
The Minutes on Pensions, the Widows’ and Orphans’
Pensions Fund Ordinance and the Widowers’ and Orphans’
Pensions Fund Act, No. 24 of 1983,
Provisions of this Act, apply to, and in relation to, the holder of any post declared under subsection (1) to be a shall subject to the pensionable post, as if the holder of such post were a public servant or a public officer, within the meaning of such
Minutes or Ordinance or Act, as the case may be.
Widowers’ and Orphans’ Pensions
Where the holder of the post in the Provincial Public
Service of a Province or in the Secretarial Staff of a
Provincial Council, which is declared under subsection (1)
to be pensionable post was prior to his appointment
'to that post—
the holder of a post under the Government which was declared under the Minutes on Pensions to be pensionable
; or
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the holder of a post in the Local Government Service which was declared to be pensionable under the
Local Government Pension Fund Regulations made under the Local Government Service Act, No. 16 of 1974, and his service in such post or posts and his service in the
Provincial Public Service of a province or in the Secretarial
Staff of a Provincial Council are continuous, then the service of such holder in each such post shall subject to the provisions of subsection (4), be deemed to be service in a pensionable post for the purposes of the Minutes on Pen-sions, and those Minutes shall apply accordingly.
Where any person is entitled to a pension under this
Act by virtue of his or his spouse or parent, having held a post in the Local Government Service and in the Provincial
Public Service of a province or the Secretarial Staff of a
Provincial Council, he shall not be paid any pension from the Local Government Service Pension Fund or the Local
Government Service Widows’ and Orphans’ Pension Fund or the Local Government Service Widowers’ and Orphans’
Pensions. Fund, in respect of his, or his spouses, or parents, service in Local (Government Service.
Where any post in the Provincial Public Service of a province or in the Secretarial Staff of a Provincial Council has been declared under subsectioh (1) to be a pensionable post, the provisions of subsections (2), (3) and (4) of this
‘section shall apply to every person who held that post notwithstanding the fact that he is retired from that post before the appointed date.
s 3Inter-pretation, ©
In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires—
“Local Government Service Pension Fund” means the
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Local Government Service Pension Fund estab-lished by section 16 of the Local Government
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Service Law, No. 16 of 1974;
¥ Local Government Service Widows’ and Orphans’.
Pension Fund” means the Local
Government
Service Widows’ .and Orphans’ Pension fund established by section 16 of the Local Government
Service Law, No. 16 of 1974;
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“Local Government Service Widowers’ and Orphans’
pension Fund ” means the Loca! Government Service
Widowers’ and Orphans’ Pension Fund established by section 16A of the Local Government Service
Law, No. 16 of 1974;
“Province” means a province set out in the Eighth
Schedule to the Constitution
;
“Provincial Council” means a Provincial Council estab-lished under Chapter XVIIA of the Constitution.
s 4Sinhala text to prevail in case of
In the event of any inconsistency between the
Sinhala and Tamil texts of this Act, the Sinhala text shall prevail.
inconsistency.