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                                              PENSIONS (SPECIAL PROVISIONS) ACT, 
                                              1959 (NO. 69 OF 1959)</span></b></p>
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                                              ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS</span></p>
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                                              Section</span></p>
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                                              1. Short Title</span></p>
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                                              PART I&#8212;AMENDMENT TO PENSIONS 
                                              ORDINANCE</span></p>
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                                              2. Service with United Nations 
                                              Organisation to be public service.</span></p>
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                                              PART II&#8212;SPECIAL PROVISIONS</span></p>
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                                              3. Pension to cease where 
                                              deportation order made.</span></p>
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                                              4. Pension suspended where 
                                              preventive detention order made.</span></p>
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                                              5. Pension rights of D. A. 
                                              Chapman.</span></p>
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                                              GHANA</span></p>
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                                              Assented to in Her Majesty's Name 
                                              and on Her Majesty's behalf this 
                                              27th day of November, 1959.</span></p>
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                                              LISTOWEL</span></p>
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                                              Governor-General</span></p>
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                                              AN ACT to amend the Pensions 
                                              Ordinance and to make special 
                                              provision as to payment of 
                                              pensions in certain cases.</span></p>
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                                              Date of Commencement: 2nd 
                                              December, 1959.</span></p>
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                                              BE IT ENACTED by the Queen's Most 
                                              Excellent Majesty, by and with the 
                                              advice and consent of the National 
                                              Assembly of Ghana in this present 
                                              Parliament assembled, and by the 
                                              authority of the same as follows:&#8212;</span></p>
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                                              Section 1&#8212;Short Title.</span></b></p>
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                                              This Act may be cited as the 
                                              Pensions (Special Provisions) Act, 
                                              1959.</span></p>
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                                              PART I&#8212;AMENDMENT TO PENSIONS 
                                              ORDINANCE</span></p>
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                                              Section 2&#8212;Service with United 
                                              Nations Organisation to be Public 
                                              Service.</span></b></p>
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                                              Cap. 30</span></p>
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                                              (1) This section shall be read 
                                              together with, and form part of 
                                              the Pensions Ordinance.</span></p>
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                                              (2) Section 2 of the Pensions 
                                              Ordinance is amended by the 
                                              insertion after subsection (1) of 
                                              the following new subsection,&#8212;</span></p>
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                                              &#8220;(1A.) Service with the United 
                                              Nations Organisation shall be 
                                              deemed to be public service for 
                                              the purposes of this Ordinance, 
                                              and paragraph 8 of the Schedule 
                                              shall be read and construed so as 
                                              to include the United Nations 
                                              Organisation as a Scheduled 
                                              Government in respect of any 
                                              officer appointed to service with 
                                              that Organisation on or after the 
                                              commencement of the year 1946.&#8221;</span></p>
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                                              PART II&#8212;SPECIAL PROVISIONS</span></p>
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                                              Section 3&#8212;Pension to Cease where 
                                              Deportation Order Made.</span></b></p>
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                                              1957 No. 14.</span></p>
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                                              (1) Where before or after the 
                                              coming into operation of this Act 
                                              any person is the subject of an 
                                              order made under the Deportation 
                                              Act 1957,&#8212;</span></p>
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                                              (a) contributions made by him or 
                                              on his behalf to a pension fund or 
                                              scheme and any earned retiring 
                                              award or allowance accruing due to 
                                              him or to any dependant of such 
                                              person under the provisions of any 
                                              Act shall be forfeited and paid 
                                              into the Consolidated Fund;</span></p>
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                                              (b) any pension or allowance 
                                              granted or awarded under the 
                                              provisions of any Act shall, on 
                                              the publication of the order, 
                                              cease to be paid to that person or 
                                              his dependants, as the case may 
                                              be;</span></p>
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                                              (c) nothing in any Act which 
                                              confers a right to continue to 
                                              rank for any benefit if as an 
                                              officer he is dismissed from 
                                              service with the Government of 
                                              Ghana shall apply to any person 
                                              affected by this section, and any 
                                              such right if accrued due shall 
                                              cease and determine, and any 
                                              moneys shall be retained in or 
                                              paid into the Consolidated Fund as 
                                              the case may require.</span></p>
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                                              Section 4&#8212;Pension Suspended where 
                                              Preventive Detention Order Made.</span></b></p>
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                                              17 of 1958 Cap. 30. </span></p>
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                                              (1) If any person is detained 
                                              under the Preventive Detention 
                                              Act, 1958, or where not detained 
                                              is the subject of an order made 
                                              under that Act, any pension or 
                                              allowance granted or awarded under 
                                              the Pensions Ordinance before the 
                                              making of the order shall, during 
                                              the currency of that order, cease 
                                              to be payable to that person or 
                                              his dependants as the case may be. 
                                              Where an order made under the 
                                              provisions of the Preventive 
                                              Detention Act, 1958 ceases to have 
                                              effect, any pension or allowance 
                                              suspended under this Act shall be 
                                              restored; but no restoration shall 
                                              have retrospective effect, and the 
                                              pension or allowance shall be 
                                              payable as if it had been granted 
                                              or made when the order ceased to 
                                              have effect.</span></p>
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                                              (2) This section shall be deemed 
                                              to have come into operation on the 
                                              1st day of April, 1959 and shall 
                                              apply in relation to any order 
                                              made under the Preventive 
                                              Detention Act 1958 before the 
                                              coming into operation of this Act 
                                              as well as to any later order.</span></p>
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                                              Section 5&#8212;Pension Right of D. A. 
                                              Chapman.</span></b></p>
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                                              Cap. 30. </span></p>
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                                              Whereas Daniel Ahmling Chapman 
                                              being a person to whom the 
                                              provisions of a pension scheme 
                                              under the Pensions Ordinance 
                                              applied, duly resigned from 
                                              service with the Achimota School 
                                              Council in the then Gold Coast, 
                                              and for reasons connected with his 
                                              appointment to service with the 
                                              United Nations Organisation it is 
                                              expedient and necessary to make 
                                              provision for the continuance of 
                                              his entitlement as if the 
                                              resignation never had effect: Be 
                                              It Therefore Enacted as follows:&#8212;</span></p>
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                                              For the purpose of determining the 
                                              rights of the said Daniel Ahmling 
                                              Chapman to a superannuation 
                                              benefit or other pension on his 
                                              retirement from service with or on 
                                              behalf of the Government of Ghana 
                                              after the passing of this Act, the 
                                              period during which he ceased to 
                                              be a person to whom the provisions 
                                              of a pension scheme applied shall, 
                                              upon the refund by him to the 
                                              Government of Ghana of the total 
                                              sum of seven hundred and fifty 
                                              pounds, be treated for all the 
                                              purposes of the Pensions Ordinance 
                                              as if he were a person to whom 
                                              such provisions as aforesaid had 
                                              never ceased to apply, and the 
                                              Pensions Ordinance shall have 
                                              effect accordingly.</span></p>
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                                              This printed impression has been 
                                              carefully compared by me with the 
                                              Bill which has passed the National 
                                              Assembly, and found by me to be a 
                                              true and correctly printed copy of 
                                              the said Bill.</span></p>
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                                              K. B. AYENSU</span></p>
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                                              Clerk of the National Assembly.</span></p>
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