ACT No. V of 1996 AN ACT to amend Ihe Members of Parliamem Pensions Act. Cap.

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Uco M IFSUD B ONNIeI

President

16th February, 1996

ACT No. V of 1996

AN ACT to amend Ihe Members of Parliamem Pensions Act. Cap.

280. BE IT ENACTED by the President. by and wit h the adv ice and

consent of the House o f Representatives in this present Parliame nt

assembled, and by the authority of the same as follows

This Act may oc cited as the MembcrsofParliamcnt PensiOIl~

(Amendment) Act. 1996, and shall be read aild construed as one with

th e Me mbers o f Parliament Pensions Act . hereinafter referred to as

"the principal Act",

Subsection' (1) of section 4 of the principal Act, shall be

su bstiluted by the following

"( I) Subject to the provisions oflhis Act. a member who

has had a lenn of service in at least two legislatures nOI being in

the aggrcg.ite less than sixty five months.shall , on his retiremen t,

receive a pension at the rate of one tw o hundred and seventieth

of his pensionable e moluments for each completed month of

oy

service up to th e limit established

subsect ion (4) o f this

section,",

3 . Immediate ly after section 4A of the principal Act there shall

be added the following new section

48. (I) A person appointed to the office of President

of Malta shall,on retiri ng from office, be entitled to a pension

at the fatc of one ninetieth of the salary payable to him on

the date of his retirement for each completed month of service

as President.

(2) The provisions of subsections (2) to (5) of

seclion 4 of this Act shall apply in respect of the pension

payable under subsections (1) an d (4) of this section subject

10 the following modifications

(a) any refe rence t herein" 10 pen s ionable

emoluments shall be construed as a reference 10 the

salary payable to the President on the date of his

retirement;

(b)

current pensionable emoluments shall be

construed as the salary currently payable to the Presi dent

of M alta.

(3) In the case of the person appoin ted as

President of Malta in virtue of subsection (4) of section 49

of the Constitution as in foree on the 13th December, 1974,

service as President of Malta shall for the purposes o f

subsection (I) of this section include also service asGovemor

Ge neral.

(4) The surviving widow or widower of a person

appointed to the office of President shall on the death of the

person SO appointed, be entitled to a pension, to be called a

widow's pe,.sion, equivalent to five sixths of the penSion

payable in accordance wi th the previous provisions o f this

section to his or her spouse if he had been alive, and if the

person appointed dies during his tcOll of office to five sixths

of the pension to which he would have been entitled had he

retired on the date of his or her death

Provided that a person entitled to a pension under

this subsection who is also ent itled to a pension under any

other provisions o f this Act shall only be entitled to receive

the higher of such pensions.";

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4B . ( I) Persuna Ii tinl'latar fiI -kariga la' President ta '

MalIa ghandha, meta (inira mill-kariga, tkun intitolata ghaJ

pensjoni bir· rata la ' parti wahda minn di sghin parti tas-salarju

Ii jkun qed jinghlllalha rid-<lala ta' I-irtir taghha ghal kull xahar

komplut la' serv izz bhala President.

(2)

Id-dispoi iujonijiet tas-subartikoli (2) sa (5)

ta'l-anikolu 4 ta' dan I-au ghandhom ikunu japplikaw ghnr-

rigward taJ -pensjoni Ii tithallas taht is-subartiko li ( I) u (4) ta'

dan l-anikolu bla hsarn ghat dawn it-tibdiliet Ii gejjin

(a) !cull rderenza fdawk is-suban ikoli ghat hlas

pensjonabbl i ghandh a tinftiehem bhala referenza ghas-

salarju Ii jithaJlas liII-President fid-data 13 ' j·inir lieghu;

(b) hl as pensjonabbii kurtenti gha ndu jinftie hem

bhaJa s-saJarju Ii jkun qieghed korrentement jithallas lill-

President [a ' Malta .

(3) Fil-kiti. lal -persuna mahtura bhala Presiden[

ta' Mal [a bis-sahha tas-subartikolu (4) ta' I-artikolu 49 tal-

Koslituzzjoni kiffis-sehh fit -1 3 ta' Dieembru, 1974 , is-servin

bhala President la' Ma lta ghandu ghall -g hanijic[ [as-

subartikol u ( I) taO dan I-artikol u jinkludi wko U se rvizz bhala

Gvemnl ur Generali.

L-armla jew annel sopravivenli la' persuna

(4)

mahlura fil -kari ga la' Presiden[ ghandh a mal- mewt ta' dik it-

persuna hekk mahtum, tkun intilolata ghal pensjoni, Ii lissc:jjah

pensjoni [a' armla, Ii [Imn ekwivalenti ghal hames panijiel

minn silt panijie[ tal - pensjoni Ii [ithal las s kond id-

dispoii~1.jonijie[ ta ' qabel ta' dan J-anikoJu tin -kon jugi tieghu

jew laghha Ii ki eku kienel hajja, u jekk il-persuna mahtura

Imut waqt Ii Ikun qed to!d::upa I-kariga ghal hames partijiet

minn si t! partijie t ta l-pensjoni Ii kienel tkun intilolata gha liha

Ii kieku Ik un irti rat fid-data ta ' I-inir laghha

lida persuna Ii tkun intitolata ghal pensjoni Inhl dan

is-subartikolu Ii Ikun ukoll imitolala ghal pensjoni lahl kull

dispozizzjoni ohra ta ' dan I-All Ikun biss intilOlllla tiri:icvi 1-

og hla pensjoni minn dawk. it-lnejn.".

Section 7 of the principal Act shall be amended as follow s

(a) in subsection (I) thereof for the word "widow" there

shall be su bs titu ted the words "w idow or widower" a nd

immediately at the end thereof there shall be added the following

proviso

"Provided that a person entitled to a pension under

this seClion who is also entitled 10 a pension under any other

provision of this Act shall only be entitled to receive the

higher o f suc h pensions.";

subsection (2) shall be deleted and replaced by the

(b)

following

"(2) The provisions of subsection (I) of this section

shall also apply to a widow or widower of a member who

(a) has nOI yet attained the age of sixty one years

at the time of his death but who, before such death,

satisfied the requirements of subsec tion (1) of seclion

4 of this Act: or

(b) but for the fact that he continued to be a

me mber afler attaining the age o f sixty one years,

would have been entitled 10 a pension unde r this Act.";

and

(e) in subsection (3) thereof. for the words "two-thirds"

there shall be substituted the words "five-sixths".

No arrears shall be payable under the provisions of this Ac t

for any period before the 1st of January, 1995.

Passed by the House of Representatives at Silting No. 507 of the 12th February,

1996. LAWRENCE GoNZI

Speaker

Clerk to the House of Representatives.

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