Cap. 260 ст. 15Circumstances in whichpensionmay be granted.

No pension shall be granted to any officer of the

Department of Correctional Services except on his retirement from the Department of Correctional Services in any one of the following cases:

(i) 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;

(ii) on the abolition of his office;

(iii) 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;

(iv) in the case of termination of employment in the public interest as provided in this Act;

(v) on medical evidence to the satisfaction of the Minister that such office of the Department of Correctional Services 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 has, without his own default, been 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: precluded at law, will be entitled to the payment of such pensionable emoluments in accordance with regulation 16 of the Prisons Pensions Regulations.