5. Section 8 of the principal enactment is hereby amended as follows :
| (1) by the repeal of subsection (1) of that section and the substitution therefor, of the following subsection :
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| | | (a) From and after the commencement of this Ordinance up to March 31, 1975, a monthly abatement of four per centum shall be made from the full salary or pension, as the case may be, of every public officer, notwithstanding that for any month he may receive as salary or pension an amount less than the full salary or pension or may not receive as salary or pension any amount whatsoever.
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| (b) From and after April 1,1975. a monthly abatement at such percentage as may be determined, from time to time, by the Minister shall be made from the consolidated salary of every public officer notwithstanding that for any month he may receive as salary an amount less than his full salary or may not receive as salary any amount whatsoever.
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| (c) During the period commencing on April I, 1975, and ending on the relevant date, a monthly abatement equal to the amount of the abatement made in respect of the month in which any public officer retired from the public service shall be made, or where a public officer opts to contribute from his pension an abatement of four per centum of the unreduced pension shall be made from such pension. "; |
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| (2) by the insertion, immediately after subsection (1), of the following new subsection:
| | "(1A). Notwithstanding anything in subsection (1) a monthly abatement referred to in that subsection shall not be made from the pension payable to a public officer in respect of any period commencing on or after the relevant date. "; | | |
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| (3) by the repeal of subsection (2) of that section and the substitution therefor of the following subsection:
| | ' (2) The abatement referred to in subsection (1) shall be made by the Deputy Secretary to the Treasury from the salaries and pensions of contributors, or, in the case of payments made by the Crown Agents by such Crown Agents upon each occasion of payment of salary or pension, and shall be placed to the credit of " The Widows' and Orphans' Pension Fund ": | | |
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| (4) in subsection (3) of that section by the substitution, for all the words from |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts