Gratuities

(1) Subject to subsections (2) and (3) of this section, every teacher otherwise qualified for a pension who has not completed a minimum period of service qualifying for a pension may be granted, on retirement, a gratuity not exceeding five times the annual amount of pension which if there had been no qualifying period might have been granted to the teacher under section 8 (1) of this Act. (2) A female teacher who has completed not less than five years’ service as a teacher who retires for the reason that she is about to marry or has married and is not eligible for the grant of any pension or otherwise eligible for gratuity under this Act may be granted on production within six months after her retirement or such longer period as the Governor- General may in any case allow of satisfactory evidence of her marriage, a gratuity of an amount not exceeding, (a) one year’s pensionable emoluments; or (b) five times the annual amount of pension which might have been granted to her under section 8 (1) of this Act had there been no 12 qualifying period and had that section been applicable to her, whichever amount is the greater. (3) A gratuity under this Act shall not be payable to a female teacher who was married for longer than a period of six months at the date of retirement.