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 4. Eligibility for Pension

(i) The effect of the Scheme on pensions (in view of the provisions & the Pensions Laws and Schemes in North Borneo/ Sarawak and in other territories) is as follows.

(ii) Any entitled officer who (a) elects to retire from the pensionable service under this Scheme (whether he accepts an offer of a contract appointment or not) or (b) retires from the service on medical grounds or (c) is regnited to retire from the service either in accordance with the provisions of paragraph 12 or 13 below or to facilitate the reorganisation of the Public Service or on the grounds of public interest or because of the abolition of his office or on grounds of age will be eligible to receive such pension from the Government of North Bornco/Sarawak as he has earned by his pensionable service in North Boruco/Sarawak irrespective of whether his length of service in North Borneo/Sarawak is less than ten years and of whether he has attained the minimum retiring age at the date of his retirement of has served the minimum period under the Scheme applicable to him.

(iii) Where an entitled officer has other scheduled service, his eligibility for pension in respect of that other service will depend on the pensions law relating to it, An entilled officer who elects to retire before he has completed ten years total pensionable service (including qualifying service which is not in itself reckonable for the computation of pension) will be eligible only for a gratuity in respect of that part of his scheduled pensionable service which was not served in North Borneo Sarawak; provided that reciprocal arrangements will so far as possible be made by the Governments of the Federation of Malaya, Singapore, Sarawak, Brunei and North Borneo so that an officer who retires under this Scheme with less than 10 years total pensionable service which includes other scheduled pensionable service in Malaysia will receive pension in respect of his pensionable service under those Governments notwithstanding that his length of pensionable service is less than 10 years.

(iv) The pension of any entitled officer who is called upon to retire under this Scheme (either for constitutional reasons or to facilitate the localisation of the Public Service or to facilitate the reorganisation of the Public Service or because of the abolition of his office or on grounds of age) (paragraphs 6 (vi) to (vi), 12 and 13 below refer) will be calculated on the basis of the pensionable emoluments which he is drawing at the date on which his leave prior to retirement expires, and the averaging provisions of the Pensions Ordinance will not apply to such officers.

5. Calculation of Compensation

(i) An entitled officer will be eligible for compensation to be calculated and paid as setout below.

(ii) Compensation shall be calculated as a lump sum in accordance with the tables (Appendices I and II) which have been drawn up by the Goverment Actuary in the United Kingdom. These tables take account of length of pensionable service up to ten years. The maximum amount of compensation payable under this Scheme shall be £12,000.

(iii) Compensation shall be calculated by multiplying the officer's annual pensionable emoluments at the date taken for calculation by the factor appropriate to his age and length of service at that date.

(iv) The dates taken for calculation shall be— (a) in the case of the initial instalment, the operative date, or for an officer serving on probation, the date of confirmation,

(b) in the case of subsequent instalments each anniversary of the operative date, or, for an officer serving on probation, each anniversary of the date of his confirmation;

(c) the date of retirement, when an officer's compensation will be finally fixed:

Provided that at each date taken for calculation after the operative date, the point in time in relation to which the calculation is made shall be the point most favourable to the officer between the operative date and that date.