Prisons Pensions (Amendment) Regulations, 2008

L.N. 5 of 2008

PRISONS ACT

(CAP. 260)

Prisons Pensions (Amendment) Regulations, 2008

IN exercise of the powers conferred by article 12 of the Prisons

Act, the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Justice and Home

Affairs, with the concurrence of the Prime Minister and Minister of

Finance, has made the following regulations>–

The title of these regulations is the Prisons Pensions

(Amendment) Regulations, 2008 and they shall be read and construed

as one with the Prisons Pensions Regulations, 2001 hereinafter referred

to as “the principal regulations”.

In paragraph (a) of regulation 3 of the principal regulations,

immediately after the words “Department of Correctional Services” there

shall be added the words “after he attains the age of fifty years”.

Immediately after regulation 5 of the principal regulations there

regulation 5A to the

shall be added the following new regulation 5A>–

Subject to the provisions of regulation 5

“Saving as to

correctional

determining

the maximum pension grantable to a correctional

services

services officer, where a person has been appointed a

officers.

correctional services officer, any period previous to that

appointment during which that person has served as a prisons

officer or as a member of a disciplined force as defined in

article 47(1) of the Constitution shall be deemed as service as

a correctional services officer for the purpose of any pension

that may be granted under these regulations.”.

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