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| (1) At the request of the Board any officer of the public service or the Local Government Service Commission may, with the consent of the officer and the Secretary to the Treasury or the Local Government Service Commission, as the case may be, be temporarily appointed to the staff of the Board for such period as may be determined by the Board with like consent or be permanently appointed to such staff. |
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| (2) The provisions of subsection (2) of section 9 of the Motor Transport Act, No. 48 of 1957, shall mutatis mutandis apply in relation to any officer in the public service who is temporarily appointed to the staff of the Board, and the provisions of subsection (3) of the aforesaid section 9 shall mutatis mutandis apply in relation to any officer in the public service who is permanently appointed to such staff. |
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| (3) Where an officer in the Local Government Service is temporarily appointed to the staff of the Board,-
| | (a) he shall be subject to the same disciplinary control as any other member of such staff; | | |
| | (b) if, at the time of his temporary appointment to the staff of the Board his substantive post in the Local Government Service was a post declared to be pensionable by the Local Government Service Commission,-
| | | (i) he shall, while in the employ of the Board, be deemed to be temporarily released by the Local Government Service Commission for temporary employment under a local authority in a post other than a scheduled post and accordingly regulation 22 of the Local Government Service Pension Scheme Regulations, 1952, shall apply to him; and |
| (ii) in respect of him the Board shall pay to the Local Government Service Commission for every complete month during which he is in the employ of the Board such sum not exceeding twenty-five per centum of the salary payable to him in his substantive post in the Local Government Service as may be agreed upon by the Board and that Commission. |
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| (4) Where an officer in the Local Government Service is permanently appointed to the staff of the Board,-
| | (a) he shall be deemed to have left the Local Government Service; | | |
| | (b) if, at the time of his permanent appointment to the Board his substantive post in the Local Government Service was a post declared to be pensionable by the Local Government Service Commission,-
| | | (i) he shall be eligible for such an award under the rules and regulations of that Commission as might have been made to him if he had been retired from the Local Government Service on the ground of ill health on the date of his permanent appointment to the staff of the Board; |
| (ii) the amount of any such award made under those rules and regulations shall not be paid to him unless his employment in the staff of the Board is terminated by retirement on account of age, ill health or by the abolition of the post held by him in such staff or on any other ground approved by the Commission; and |
| (iii) in the event of his death while in the employ of the Board, such an award as might have been made in respect of him under those rules and regulations if he had died immediately before his permanent appointment to the staff of the Board may be made in respect of him. |
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| (5) Where an officer of the Local Government Ser vice Commission is temporarily appointed to the staff of the Board or permanently appointed to that staff, the appointment shall be on such terms and conditions, including those relating to pension or provident fund rights, as may be agreed upon by the Board and that Commission. |
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| (6) Where an officer of the Local Government Ser vice Commission is temporarily appointed to the staff of the Board he shall be subject to the same disciplinary control as any other member of such staff. |
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| (7) Where the Board employs any person who has entered into a contract with the Government by which he has agreed to serve the Government for a specified period, any period of service to the Board by that person shall be regarded as service to the Government for the purpose of discharging the obligations of such contract. |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts