S.L. 260.4 Art. 3Circumstances in whichpensionmay be granted.

No pension shall be granted to any correctional services officer except on his retirement from the Department of

Correctional Services in any one of the following cases:

(a) on or after attaining the age of fifty-five years or if he has completed twenty-five years’ service in the

Department of Correctional Services;

(b) on the abolition of his office;

(c) on compulsory retirement for the purpose of facilitating improvement in the organisation of the Department of Correctional Services, by which greater efficiency and economy can be effected;

(d) on compulsory retirement on the ground of public interest;

(e) on medical evidence to the satisfaction of the Minister that such correctional services officer is incapable by reason of infirmity of mind or body of discharging the duties of his office and that such infirmity is likely to be permanent: Provided that if a correctional services officer is, without his own default, seriously injured during the course of his duties and due to such injury he is incapable of discharging the duties of his office, and has been duly certified by an Injuries Board made up of medical and other professionals appointed by the Minister responsible for Prisons, such officer may be entitled to pensionable emoluments as if he had completed the 25 years’ service: Provided further that, if a correctional services officer, without his own default, dies as a direct consequence of him having carried out the duties of his office, his dependants, unless otherwise precluded at law, will be entitled to the payment of such pensionable emoluments, as provided in regulation 16.