Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2023)

PART 2
OFFICERS WITHOUT OTHER PUBLIC SERVICE

3.   Application of Part 2

Save when the Governor General in any special case otherwise directs, this Part does not apply in the case of any officer transferred to or from the public service under the Government of Saint Lucia from or to other public service except for the purpose of determining whether such officer would have been eligible for pension or gratuity, and the amount of pension or gratuity, for which the officer would have been eligible, if the service of the officer had been wholly service in public service under the Government of Saint Lucia.

4.   Pension to whom and at what rates to be granted

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   (1)   Subject to the provisions of the Act and of these Regulations, every public officer holding a pensionable office under the Government of Saint Lucia who has been in public service under the Government of Saint Lucia for 10 years or more may be granted on his or her retirement a pension at the annual rate of one four-hundred eightieth of his or her pensionable emoluments in respect of each completed month of his or her pensionable service.

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   (2)   Where an officer retires from public service under the Government of Saint Lucia in the circumstances described in section 6(1)(a)(iv), and at the time of his or her retirement his or her pensionable service was 10 years or more but less than 20 years he or she may be granted in addition to the pension granted under paragraph (1) of this regulation an additional pension at the annual rate of one four hundred eightieth of his or her pensionable emoluments in respect of each month—

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      (a)     by which his or her pensionable service falls short of 20 years; or

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      (b)     if his or her pensionable service would have been for a shorter period than 20 years had he or she continued to hold the same office which he or she held at the date of his or her retirement and retired on attaining the age of 55 years, of such shorter period.

(Amended by S.I. 14/1976)

5.   Gratuities where length of service does not qualify for pension

Every officer, otherwise qualified for a pension who has not completed the minimum period of service qualifying for a pension, may be granted on retirement a gratuity not exceeding 5 times the annual amount of the pension which, if there had been no qualifying period, might have been granted to the officer under regulation 4(1).

6.   Marriage gratuities

(Amended by Act 19 of 2003 and S.I. 14/1976)