5. The following new sections are hereby inserted immediately after section 159 of the principal enactment and shall have effect as sections 159A and 159B of that enactment: -
| 159A.
| | (1) An Urban Council may, with the approval of the Minister given after consultation with the Minister of Finance, grant, out of the local fund established by that Council, to any person-
| | | (a) who retires or has retired from service as an officer or servant of that Council, or |
| (b) who is or was transferred from such service to, and retires or has retired from, the service of the Government, |
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| | (2) Where no pension, annuity, or gratuity, or no adequate pension, annuity, or gratuity is payable to the widow, children, next of kin or dependants of any deceased officer or servant of an Urban Council under any by-laws or rules of that Council or under any scheme or fund established under the Local Government Service Ordinance, that Council may, with the approval of the Minister given after consultation with the Minister of Finance, grant to such widow, children, next of kin or dependants a pension, an annuity or a gratuity out of the local fund established by that Council. | | |
| | (3) Nothing in subsection (1) or subsection (2) of this section shall be construed to confer on any person any right to any pension, annuity, gratuity or retiring allowance under either of those subsections. | | |
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| 159B.
| | (1) An Urban Council may, with the approval of the Minister given with the concurrence of the Minister of Finance, make by-laws providing for the establishment of, and may establish in accordance with such by-laws, a scheme for the payment of gratuities to temporary officers and servants of that Council upon their discontinuance from the service of that Council. | | |
| | (2) By-laws made under subsection (1) may be so made by an Urban Council as to be applicable to temporary officers and servants of that Council who have been discontinued from the service of that Council before the coming into operation of the by-laws.". | | |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts