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Fiji National Provident Fund (Amendment) Act 1985

FIJI


FIJI NATIONAL PROVIDENT FUND (AMENDMENT) ACT 1985


ACT No. 11 OF 1985


I assent.


[L.S.]


P. K. GANILAU
Governor-General


4th July 1985


AN ACT


TO AMEND THE FIJI NATIONAL PROVIDENT FUND ACT


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ENACTED by the Parliament of Fiji-


Short title, commencement


1.-(1) This Act may be cited as the Fiji National Provident Fund (Amendment) Act, 1985.


(2) This Act shall come into force on a date to be notified by the Minister in the Gazette.


New section 26B


2. The Fiji National Provident Fund Act is amended by inserting the following section after section 26A-


"Payment to the Fund under 51(ii) of Pensions Act


26B. Where a gratuity is to be paid pursuant to paragraph 51(ii) of the Pensions Act, 1983, then the gratuity shall be paid by the Permanent Secretary for Finance to the Board, and the Board shall accept that amount and place to the account of the beneficiary in the Fund that amount less one seventh of that part thereof which bears to the whole thereof the same proportion as the period of the officer's public service from 1 January 1975, to the date of his resignation bears to the whole of his public service from the date of his first appointment to the date of his resignation, and the provisions of this Act shall apply to the amount so placed to the credit of such beneficiary in the Fund, as if it were so placed to his credit pursuant to section 26.".


Passed by the House of Representatives this twenty-second day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand, nine hundred and eighty-five.


Passed by the Senate this twenty-fourth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand, nine hundred and eighty-five.


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