Section 5: Officers on secondment

5. Officers on secondment (1) Where an officer is seconded to service under another Government or under an authority, a body or an agency approved by the President for the purposes of this section, referred to as “an approved employer”, that officer shall, during the period of his secondment, cease to receive the emoluments attached to his office but shall nevertheless, if the approved employer agrees to pay to the Government of Mauritius a contribution in respect of his pension during the period of his secondment at the rate fixed by the President, be deemed to continue to hold such office for the purposes of the pension legislation applicable to him. (2) Where the holder of an office, referred to as “the substantive holder”, is withdrawn from his office for the purpose of being seconded in accordance with subsection (1), an appointment may be made to that office as if it were vacant, and the person appointed to that office shall be deemed to be the holder of that office and shall receive the emoluments attached during such time as the substantive holder is seconded. [S. 5 amended by Act 48 of 1991.]