Emoluments to be taken for computation of pension and gratuity

For the purpose of computing the amount of pension and gratuity for an officer who resigns from the public service in accordance with section 7 of the Pensions Act, the following rules shall have effectCAP. 30. (a) in the case of an officer who has held the same office for a period of 5 years or more immediately preceding the date of his resignation, the full annual pensionable emoluments enjoyed by him at that date in respect of that office shall be taken; (b) in the case of an officer who at any time during the period of 5 years immediately preceding his resignation has been transferred from one office to another, but whose pensionable emoluments have not been changed by reason of such transfer or transfers otherwise than by the grant of any scale increment, the full annual pensionable emoluments enjoyed by him at the date of his resignation in respect of the office then held by him shall be taken; (c) in the case of an officer who has held the same office for a period of less than five years immediately preceding his resignation, his pensionable emoluments shall be based on his emoluments in his previous office, during the three year period immediately preceding the date of appointment or promotion to the office held by him at the time of resignation, as follows– (i) if during the said three year period he held the same previous office and his pensionable emoluments were not changed otherwise than by the grant of any scale increment, full annual pensionable emoluments enjoyed by 22 him in respect of his previous office shall be taken; (ii) if during the said three year period he was transferred from one office to another, but his pensionable were not changed otherwise than by the grant of any scale increment, full annual pensionable emoluments enjoyed by him in respect of his previous office shall be taken; (iii) if during the said three year period he was transferred from one office to another, and his pensionable emoluments were changed otherwise than by the grant of any scale increment, one third of the aggregate pensionable emoluments enjoyed by him during the said three year period shall be taken. CAP. 30.