LEEWARD 2
ISLANDS,

Insertion of

«
Por sans (Ain ndinenés No, 4 of L955,

(c) by the insertion after subsection (3)
of the following subseetion—

“(4) The power vested in the
Governor in Council under subsection (1)
of this section to make an Order declaring
an Office to be a pensionable office may, in
the case of an office which is wholly
under the Government of a Presidency,
be exercised by the officer for the time
being adiministering the Government. of
that Presidency with the advice of the
Executive Council of sueh Presidency.”.

Go. After section 9 of the Prineipal Act the

new section following section shall be inserted:—

in the Prin-
cipal Act.

“ Tnerease in
pension in
cases of retire-
ment for ill
health with
more than ten
but less than
twenty years’
service,

Substitution

9A. Subject to the provisions of this
Act and of the Regulations contained in the
First Schedule thereto, every officer holding a
pensionable office in the Colony who has been
in the service of the Colony in a civil capacity
for more than ten but less than twenty years,
and who retires from the said service in the
circumstances mentioned in paragraph (e) of
section 6 of this Act may, on retirement, be
granted a pension as if his pensionable service
had been twenty years,”’.

4. The following sections are hereby sub-

of sections 16 stituted for sections 16 and 17 of the Principal

and 17 of the

Principal Act. Act:—

“Gratuity

where officer

dies in the

service or

after retire-
* ment,

16. (1) (a) Where an officer holding «
pensionable office who is not on probation or
agreement, or an officer holding a non-
pensionable office to which he has been
transferred from a pensionable office in which
he has been confirmed, dies while in the
service of the Colony, it shall be lawful for
the Governor to grant to his legal personal
representative a gratuity of an amount not
exceeding either his annual pensionable emol-
uments, or his commuted pension gratuity, if
any, whichever is the greater.