Section 2

“appropriate authority” means the pensions authority or management of a statutory or local authority;

“employee” means a person in the employment of a statutory or local authority and who by virtue of his option is bound by the new scheme or who is appointed under the new scheme;

“employer” means a statutory or local authority;

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“last drawn salary” means the last drawn monthly salary in accordance with the salary scales of the new scheme;

“Minister” means the Minister charged with responsibility for pensions;

“new scheme” means the revision of salaries and terms and conditions of service of employees in the statutory and local authorities pursuant to the recommendations of the Royal Commission appointed by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong [P.U.(B) 202/1971];

“pensionable employee” means an employee who has been emplaced on the pensionable establishment or deemed to have been so emplaced;

“pensions authority” means the Director General of Public Services or any officer authorized by him in writing to act on his behalf;

“salary” means a monthly salary including any pensionable allowance payable in accordance with the salary scales of the new scheme;

“service” means service in a civil capacity under the Government, any State Government, or in any statutory or local authority;

“statutory or local authority” means a statutory or local authority within the purview of the new scheme;

“superannuation benefits” means an award or grant which is payable under this Act.