Grant of pension to employees of Colombo Port Commission absorbed by the Ports Authority and not eligible for pension under section 17 of the Sri Lanka Ports Authority Act
2. Every officer or servant of the Sri Lanka Ports Authority (hereinafter referred to as the "Ports Authority"), whose service when added to the period of service in the Colombo Port Commission amounts to ten years or more, not being a person who is in receipt of a pension under section 17 of the Sri Lanka Ports Authority Act, No. 51 of 1979, whose substantive post in the Colombo Port Commission is declared to be pensionable under the Minutes on Pensions, shall be deemed to have held such post for the relevant period of service and shall be eligible for the grant of a pension under the Minutes on Pensions at the end of such period. " Relevant period of service " in relation to a person to whom this section applies, means the period for which such person would have had to serve in the Colombo Port Commission to complete ten year pensionable service therein had he remained therein after the date of his appointment to a post on the Staff of the Ports Authority. |