2. Insertion of Sections 5a and

Official English translation. Where it differs from the Sinhala or Tamil text, the Act itself says which text prevails.

The School Teachers Pension Act,(Chapter 432)

(hereinafter referred to as “the principal enactment" is hereby amended by the insertion of the following new sections immediately after section 5 of that enactment which shall have effect as sections 5a and 5p of that enactment :—

“Establishinent

5a.

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(1)

There may be established and of the regulated in accordance with regulations made

WWE under this Act, a Widowers and Orphans Pension and Orphans)

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Fund (hereinafter referred to as "the Widowers

Fund.

and Orphans Pension Fund") for the grant of pensions to the widowers and children of female school teachers in the manner set Gut below.

(2)

Regulations may be made under this Act providing for the establishment, regulation, administration and management of the

Widowers and Orphans Pension Fund, the conditions and circumstances in which and the restrictions subject to which the widowers and children of female school teachers will be eligible for the grant of pensions, fixing the contributions, if any, to be made thereto by the

Government, fixing the contributions to be made thereto by female school teachers, authorizing the contributions of female school teachers to be deducted from their salaries, prescribing the procedure for making such 5p in Chapter

School Teachers Pension (Amendment)

Section 5a not to apply to certain categories.

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deductions, authorizing the payment of all such contributions in to the Widowers and

Orphans Pension Fund and all matters incidental to or connected with the said Fund for which no express provision is made in this

Act:

Provided that the Minister shall in making regulations under this section, as far as possible make provision similar to that made in respect of the same matter under the Widowers and

Orphans Pension Act, No. 24 of 1983.

5B. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 5a.—

(a)

the widowers and orphans of female public officers who are eligible to the payment of a pension under the Pension Scheme established under the Widowers and

Orphans Pension Act, No. 24 of 1983; and

(b)

the widowers and orphans of the female members of the Local Government Service who are eligible to a pension under the

Local Government Service Widowers and

Orphans Pension Fund established under the Local Government Service Law,

No. 16 of 1974.

shall not be entitled to a grant of pension under the provisions of this Act:

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