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| (1)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. |
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| (2) The Minutes on Pensions, the Widows' and Orphans' Pensions Fund Ordinance and the Widowers' and Orphans' Pensions Fund Act, No. 24 of 1983, shall subject to the Provisions of this Act, apply to, and in relation to, the holder of any post declared under subsection (1) to be a 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. |
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| (3) 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
| | (a) the holder of a post under the Government which was declared under the Minutes on Pensions to be pensionable; or | | |
| | (b) 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, | | |
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| (4) Where any person is entitled to a pension under this Act by virtue of his or his spouse or parent &c 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. |
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| (5)Where any post in the Provincial Public Service of a province or in the Secretarial Staff of a Provincial Council has been declared under subsection (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. |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts