28. Notwithstanding the previsions contained in the State Industrial Corporations Act, No. 49 of 1957, the following provisions shall, apply in relation to the employment in the Corporation of public officers of the Department of Telecommunications"
(a) every public officer of the Department of Telecommunications not being any such officer in a transferable service of the Government, other than an officer in the Sri Lanka Engineering Service shall, before the transfer date, give notice in writing to the Director of Telecommunications that such officer intends, on the transfer date,
| | (i) to continue in office as a public officer of the Department ; | | |
| | (ii) to retire from the public service and become an employee of the Corporation if, being a pensionable officer of the Department of Telecommunications he would on that date have had not less than ten years' pensionable service ; or | | |
| | (iii) to leave the public service and become an employee of the Corporation if, being a pensionable officer of the Department of Telecommunication he would on that date have less than years pensionable service; or | | |
| | (iv) to leave the public service and become an employee of the Corporation if he is a contributor to the Public Service Provident Fund established under the Public Service Provident Fund Ordinance ; or | | |
| | (v) to both retire or leave the public service and not become an employee of the Corporation; | | |
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(b) a notice given to the Director of Telecommunications before the transfer date by a public officer of the department under paragraph (a), shall be final. |
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