17. Every public officer referred to in section 15 (3), 15 (4), 16 (2) and 16 (4) who retires or is deemed to have left the Public Service under the provisions of those sections shall-
| (a) if, on the day immediately preceding the appointed date, his substantive post in the Colombo Port Commission was a post declared to be pensionable under the Minutes on Pensions, be granted such an award under those Minutes as might have been granted to him if he had been retired from the Public Service on the ground of abolition of office ; or |
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| (b) if, on the day immediately preceding the appointed date, he was a contributor to the Public Services Provident Fund established under the Public Ser vice Provident Fund Ordinance he shall, for the purposes of that Ordinance, be deemed to have left the service of the Government upon the determination of the contract with the consent of the Government, otherwise than by dismissal and may be granted an award under that Ordinance on that ground |
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