Public Servants (Continuity of Service) Act, 1938

Saving for certain transferred officers.

5.—(1) Nothing in this Act shall apply to or affect any transferred officer who made, in writing on or before the 31st day of October, 1938, a claim for compensation in consequence of the coming into operation of the Constitution.

(2) Every claim duly made in writing under the Civil Service (Transferred Officers) Compensation Act, 1929 (No. 36 of 1929), on or before the 31st day of October, 1938, by a transferred officer for compensation in consequence of the coming into operation of the Constitution shall be referred to and heard and determined by the Board in accordance with the said Act.

(3) Every question or dispute as to whether any such claim as is referred to in the foregoing sub-sections of this section was or was not made on or before the 31st day of October, 1938, shall be decided by the Board and the decision of the Board thereon shall be final.