3. Section 32 of the principal Act is hereby repealed and the following new section substituted therefor:-
32. The following provisions shall apply to and in relation to any employee of the Board who became such an employee on the transfer date by virtue of the operation of the provisions of section 31c:-
| | (1) Such employee shall be employed by the Board on such terms and conditions as may be agreed upon by such employee and the Board: | | |
| | (2) If on the transfer date, such employee was a public officer of the Department holding a post declared to be pensionable and who had less than ten and not less than eight years' pensionable service, then,-
| | | (a) he shall be deemed, for the purposes only of the Minutes on Pensions, to be holding the post in the Department that he held on the transfer date until such period of time as, when added to his pensionable service under the Government, makes an aggregate of ten years' pensionable service (service under the Board being counted as pensionable service under the Government for the computation of such aggregate); |
| (b) in respect of him the Board shall pay out of the funds of the Board to the Deputy Secretary to the Treasury to be credited to the Consolidated Fund of Ceylon for every complete month of the period of service during which he is deemed for the purposes only of the Minutes on Pensions to be holding the post in the Department that he held on the transfer date such sum as may be determined by the Minister of Finance; and |
| (c) at the end of such period he shall be deemed to have retired from the public service and shall be eligible for such a pension under the Minutes on Pensions as would have been awarded to him had he retired from the public service on the ground of abolition of office on the termination of such period. |
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| | (3) Notwithstanding-
| | | (a) the provisions of section 31c and the preceding provisions of this section; and |
| (b) anything to the contrary in any other written law, |
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