Malaysia legislation
Section 13
Section 13
Where information not sufficient to determine amount of pension, etc.
Where, for the purpose of granting and adjusting or adjusting any pension or other benefit under this Act, the Director General is not in possession of sufficient information to enable him to determine the amount of pension or other benefit payable, the amount payable shall, in the case of —
(a)
a pension or retiring allowance, be fifty per cent of the highest pension or retiring allowance payable to an officer of an equivalent grade on the current salary scale as the officer whose pension or retiring allowance is to be adjusted under this Act;
(b)
a derivative pension or derivative retiring allowance, be of the same amount as the pension or retiring allowance payable under paragraph (a);
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(c)
a disability pension or an injury allowance, be fifty per cent of the maximum disability pension or injury allowance payable, calculated on the highest factor provided under the written law under which the officer retired and the highest salary payable to an officer of an equivalent grade on the current salary scale as the officer whose disability pension or injury allowance is to be adjusted under this
Act;
(d)
a dependant’s pension, be fifty per cent of the maximum dependant’s pension payable, calculated on the highest factor provided under the written law under which the officer died in service or in retirement and the highest salary payable to an officer of an equivalent grade on the current salary scale as the officer in respect of whose dependant the dependant’s pension is to be adjusted under this Act.
Director General may re-determine proper amount of pension or other benefit