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(1) The provisions of this section shall apply to every public officer, other than any public officer in a transferable service of the Government, who was employed in the Department of Marketing and Export Promotion of Handicrafts or the relevant sections of the Department of Small Industries on the day immediately before the date of the coming into operation of this Part and the functions of whose office have been vested in or taken over by the Board. |
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(2) Every public officer to whom subsection (1) applies and who holds a post declared to be pensionable under the Minutes on Pensions, shall, not more than three months after the date on which the Order is made under section 48, give notice in writing to the Board that such officer intends with effect from such date
| | (a) to continue in office as a public officer and perform so long as he so continues work for and on behalf of the Board in his capacity as such officer ; or | | |
| | (b) to retire from the public service and become an employee of the Board if being a pensionable officer, he would, on that date, have had not less than ten years' pensionable service ; or | | |
| | (c) to leave the public service and become an employee of the Board, if being a pensionable officer, he would, on that date, have less than ten years' pensionable service; or | | |
| | (d) to leave the public service to become an employee of the Board, if he is a contributor to the Public Service Provident Fund established under the Public Service Provident Fund Ordinance ; or | | |
| | (e) to both leave the public service and not become an employee of the Board. | | |
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(3) A notice given under subsection (2) shall be final |
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