Malaysia legislation
Section 4
Section 4
The principal Act is amended by inserting after section 3 the following sections:
“Adjustment of pensions, disability pensions, retiring allowances or injury allowances 3a. (1) Pensions, disability pensions, retiring allowances or injury allowances received by an officer under any written law shall be adjusted in accordance with subsection 3(1).
(2)
The amount of pension, disability pension, retiring allowance or injury allowance to be used as the basis for the first of the adjustments under subsection 3(1)—
(a)
in the case of an officer who retired before or on 1 January 2012, shall be the amount of pension, disability pension, retiring allowance or injury allowance which had been adjusted on that date;
(b)
in the case of an officer who retired on or after 2 January 2012, shall be the amount of pension, disability pension, retiring allowance or injury allowance which had been granted to the officer.
(3)
The adjustment referred to in subsection (1) is subject to any higher percentage of increment which may be made under subsection 3(2).
Adjustment of lowest pensions and other benefits 3b. Where an officer is receiving the lowest amount of pension or other benefit payable pursuant to section 8, the said lowest amount shall be used as the basis for the first of the adjustments under subsection 3(1).”.
Amendment of section 4