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CHAPTER XV
PENSIONS
Pensions
laws and
protection
of pension
rights.
234. (1) The law to be applied with respect to any pension
benefits that were granted to any person before the commencement of
this Constitution shall be the law that was in force at the date on which
those benefits were granted, or any law in force at a later date that is not
less favourable to that person.
(2) The law to be applied with respect to any pension
benefits (not being benefits to which subsection (1) of this section applies)
shall –
(a)
in so far as those benefits are wholly in respect
of a period of service as a judge or officer of the
Supreme Court, or a public officer or a police
officer or a prison officer or a teacher, or a
member of the National Assembly, that
commenced before the commencement of this
Constitution, be the law that was in force at such
commencement; and
in so far as those benefits are wholly or partly in
respect of a period of service as a judge or
officer of the Supreme Court, or a member of
the National Assembly, or a public officer, or a
police officer, or a prison officer, or a teacher,
that commenced after the commencement of
this Constitution, be the law in force on the date
on which that period of service commenced, or
any law in force at a later date that is not less
favourable to that person.
(b)
(3) Where a person is entitled to exercise an option as to
which of two or more laws shall apply in his case, the law for which he
opts shall, for the purposes of this section, be deemed to be more
favourable to him than the other law or laws.
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