Telecommunications (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1996

Amendment of Principal Act.

11.—The Principal Act is hereby amended by—

(a) the insertion in section 46 (1) after “as it may think fit” of “, or in respect of such persons who were members of the staff of the Department of Posts and Telegraphs and who retired or died before the vesting day as the Minister for Finance may specify” and the subsection as so amended is set out in the Table to this paragraph;

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(1) Each company shall prepare and submit to the Minister a scheme or schemes for the granting of pensions, gratuities and other allowances on retirement or death to or in respect of such members of the staff of the company as it may think fit, or in respect of such persons who were members of the staff of the Department of Posts and Telegraphs and who retired or died before the vesting day as the Minister for Finance may specify.

(b) the insertion in section 46 (9) before “The Minister” of “Notwithstanding the provisions of any other enactment or obligation of law” and the insertion after “Telegraphs,” of “or who were members of the staff of the Department of Posts and Telegraphs and who retired or died before the vesting day” and the subsection as so amended is set out in the Table to this paragraph;

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(9) Notwithstanding the provisions of any other enactment or obligation of law the Minister for Finance shall make such contribution as may, with his consent, be specified in a scheme or schemes under this section towards the pensions, gratuities and other allowances related to reckonable service given before the vesting day which may be granted to or in respect of persons who, immediately before that day, were members of the staff of the Department of Posts and Telegraphs, or who were members of the staff of the Department of Posts and Telegraphs and who retired or died before the vesting day and such scheme or schemes shall, with the like consent, fix the manner and times of the payment of such contribution.

(c) the insertion in section 90 (1) of “and the Telecommunications (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1996,” after “this Act”, and the subsection as so amended, other than paragraphs (a) and (b) is set out in the Table to this paragraph.

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(1) Subject to this Act and the Telecommunications (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1996, the company may make, as respects any of the telecommunications services provided by it, a scheme providing for—