PRISONS SERVICE (PENSIONS) LAW - 1987 (PNDCL 168)

• Section - 1 - Disapplication Of SMCD 8 To Prisons Service.

  • On the coming into force of this Law, the provisions of the Pensions and Social Security (Amendment) Decree, 1975 (SMCD 8), other than those provisions relating to the Pensions Ordinance (Cap 30), shall cease to be applicable to the members of the Prisons Service and any member of the Prisons Service who before the commencement of this Law is required by virtue of the Pensions and Social Security (Amendment) Decree, 1975 (SMCD 8) to contribute towards his pension or to the social security fund as a member of that fund shall, on the coming into force of this Law, cease to make such contribution towards his pension or to the social security fund.
    

• Section - 2 - Refund Of Accumulated Contributions.

  • (1) Subject to subsection (2) of this section, all amounts paid by or on behalf of any member of the Prisons Service as contributions towards that member's pension or social security fund before the commencement of this Law shall be refunded to him-
    
    (a) when he retires from the Prisons Service on attaining the retirement age prescribed under the Prisons Service Decree, 1972 (NRCD 46);
    
    (b) where he resigns or is dismissed from the Prisons Service, upon attaining the age of superannuation in accordance with the provisions of the Social Security Decree, 1972 (NRCD 127).
    
    (2) Any amount payable to any member of the Prisons Service under subsection (1) of this section shall be paid to his estate if that member dies before he is due to retire from the Prisons Service or his retiring awards are paid to him or before attaining the age of superannuation.

• Section - 3 - Prisons Service Members Eligible For Pension.

  • Subject to section 1 of this Law, any member of the Prisons Service shall on the commencement of this Law be eligible for pension, and any enactment relating to pensions for the time being in force shall apply to him.
    

• Section - 4 - Pensionable Service To Include Period Of Contributing To Social Security Fund.

  • Any period of service in the Prisons Service in respect of which any member of the Service has contributed to the social security fund by virtue of section 1 of the Pensions and Social Security (Amendment) Decree, 1975 (SMCD 8) shall, for the purposes of computing his pension, be deemed to be pensionable service.
    

• Section - 5 - Commencement.

  • This Law shall be deemed to have come into force on the 1st day of August, 1986.