ACT No. XX of 2019 AN ACT to amend the Pensions Ordinance, Cap. 93.

I assent.

(L.S.)

GEORGE VELLA

President

12th July, 2019

ACT No. XX of 2019

AN ACT to amend the Pensions Ordinance, Cap. 93.

BE IT ENACTED by the President, by and with the advice and

consent of the House of Representatives, in this present Parliament

assembled, and by the authority of the same as follows:-

The short title of this Act is the Pensions Ordinance Short title.

(Amendment) Act, 2019, and it shall be read and construed as one with

the Pensions Ordinance, hereinafter referred to as "the principal Act". Cap. 93.

Sub-article (2) of article 8E of the principal Act shall be Amendment of

article 8E of the

amended as follows

principal Act.

(a) paragraphs (b), (c) and (d) thereof shall be

renumbered as paragraphs (c), (d) and (e) respectively; and

(b) immediately after paragraph (a) thereof there shall

be added the following new paragraph

"(b) Principal Permanent Secretary;".

Article 9 of the principal Act shall be amended as follows

(a) in sub-article (1) thereof for the words "provided

that retirement shall be compulsory for every officer on

attaining the age of sixty-five years:" there shall be substituted

the words "provided that retirement shall be regulated by the

provisions of the Social Security Act concerning pensionable

age:"; and

(b) immediately after sub-article (2) thereof there shall

be added the following new sub-article

"(3) Without prejudice to the provisions of sub-article

(1), any officer may be allowed to remain in service beyond

pensionable age.".

In sub-regulation (1) of regulation 4 of the Schedule of the

principal Act, for the words "so made in the pension:" there shall be

substituted the words "so made in the pension." and the proviso thereto

shall be deleted.

Passed by the House of Representatives at Sitting No. 246 of the 8th

July, 2019.

ANĠLU FARRUGIA

Speaker

RAYMOND SCICLUNA

Clerk of the House of Representatives

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