Malaysia legislation
Section 2
Section 2
In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires—
“child” means a child of a deceased officer—
(a)
who is a child under twenty-one years of age and includes—
(i)
a posthumous child, a dependent step-child and an illegitimate child of the officer; and
(ii)
a child adopted by the officer under any written law relating to adoption or under any custom or usage, on satisfactory proof of such adoption; and
(b)
who is a child of any age and is mentally retarded or physically and permanently incapacitated and is incapable of supporting himself provided that such child is mentally retarded or physically and permanently incapacitated before the child reaches the age of twenty-one years;
“Director General” means the Director General of Public
Services;
“federal officer” means an officer in the service of the Federal
Government;
“last drawn salary” means the last drawn monthly substantive salary or in the case of retirement under section 12A his actual last drawn monthly substantive salary paid to him by the organization whilst on the same terms and conditions of service as in the New Scheme, and includes any pensionable allowance;
“local federal officer” means an officer who is recruited for, or transferred to, service under the Federal Government in Sabah or
Sarawak and has not been permanently transferred to service outside
Sabah or Sarawak;
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“New Scheme” means the revised salaries and terms and conditions of service of officers in the public service arising from the revision of salaries and terms and conditions of service of such officers made by the Federal Government with effect from 1 January 1976, or from any other subsequent revision made by the Federal Government from time to time;
“officer” means an officer on full-time employment in the public service;
“other public service” means service under a Government set out in the Schedule in respect of officers transferred to public service;
“pensionable officer” means an officer who has been conferred the status of a pensionable officer under section 7 or who is deemed to be a pensionable officer under subsection 6A (6C) or section 8;
“public service” means—
(a)
the Judicial and Legal Service;
(b)
the General Public Service of the Federal Government;
(c)
the Police Force;
(d)
the Railway Service;
(e)
the Education Service;
(f)
the Joint Public Services common to the Federal Government and of one or more of the States;
(g)
the Public Service of each State;
(h)
the Parliamentary Service; or
(i)
such other service as the Yang di-Pertuan Agong may determine to be public service for the purposes of this Act;
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“reckonable service” means service prescribed as reckonable service under the regulations;
“regulations” means any regulations made under section 5;
“state officer” means an officer in the service of the Government of a State; and
“Statutory or Local Authority” means a Statutory or a Local
Authority established by any written law.
Pension, etc., not an absolute right