Section No : 1980 Revised version WIDOWS' AND ORPHANS' PENSION FUNDMarginal Notes1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Widows' and Orphans' Pension Fund Ordinance.2. Interpretation. 3. Fund how constituted. 4. Money belonging to the fund to be invested with Government. 5. Appointment of directors. 6. Cost of management of fund. 7. Directors may make rules and regulations. 8. Abatement from salaries ,and pensions. 9. Period for which abatement shall be made. 10. Officer retiring on pension not to be called upon to contribute more than four per centum from such pension. 11. Contributions may continue in full if income reduced. 12. Time within which election under section 11 should be made. [ 3, 1 of 1957.] 12A. Computation of contributions in certain cases. [4,1 of 1957.] 13. An officer deprived of his office may continue to contribute. 14. Directors to appoint suitable person to exercise right of election on behalf of insane officer. 15. Provision for case of officers transferred to other employment under the Sovereign of the United Kingdom. 16. Payment of contributions under section 13 or section 15. 17. Resumption of payments by defaulting contributors. 18. Application of this Ordinance to a public officer having more than one wife. 19. Application of section 21 to 25 in the case of a public officer having more than one wife. 20. Effect of a divorce. 21. Officer to furnish particulars within three months of his appointment. 22. Officer to notify marriage. 23. Officer to notify birth of child. 24. Death or divorce of wife,death of child and marriage of female child to be notified. 25. Public officers to furnish supplementary declarations or notifications and proof of statements made therein. 26. Penalty for non-compliance with provisions of this Ordinance. 27. Who shall be entitled to pension. [5, of 1957,]28. Exemptions from benefits of fund. 29. When pension to orphans shall cease. 30. Pension how computed. 31. Periodical valuation of fund. 32. Application of surplus at periodical actuarial valuations of assets and liabilities of the fund. 33. Pension to orphans. 34. Provision in case of widow marrying. 35. Provision in case of a widow and children of a previous marriage. 36. Pension to children of a widower. 37. Pension to be paid monthly. 39. Payment of pension due to a widow. 39. Failure to maintain child. 40. Payment of pension due to a minor. 41. Pensions not to be assigned or levied upon. 42. Questions and disputes to be decided by Secretary to the Treasury. 43. Widow not entitled to pension if marriage contracted after officer had ceased to contribute. 44. Exemption of pensions from estate duty. 45. No increase or decrease of pension if residing in climate less or more healthy than Sri Lanka. 46. Refund of contributions to bachelors. 47. Application of section 46. 48. Special provisions relating to refunds in the case of bachelors. 49. Concessions to widowers without pensionable children. 50. Application of section 49. 51. Special provisions relating to refunds in case of widowers without pensionable children. 52. Calculation of compound interest for the purposes of sections 48 and 51. 53. Provisions to with regard to officers appointed after 14thMarch 1906. 54. Application of this ordinance to such officers. 55. Calculation of pensions Increments of salary of existing public officers. 56. Observance of rules in calculating pensions 57. Computation of pensions of widows or orphans of officers appointed after 14th March, 1906. 58. Actuarial investigation of scheme of paying pensions in respect of public officers referred to in section 53.