Section 2: Interpretation

2. Interpretation In this Act— “annual pensionable emoluments” means— (a) the annual salary payable to a member immediately before he ceases to be a member or the current annual salary payable to a member, whichever is the higher; or (b) in the case of a member who also held an office while he was a member, the annual salary which was payable in respect of that office or the current annual salary payable in respect of such office, whichever is the higher; “legislative service”— (a) means service as a member of the Legislature; (b) includes service before 12 March 1968; (c) does not include any break in any such service; “member” means a member of the Assembly and includes the Speaker, notwithstanding that he is not an elected member of the Assembly; “Minister” means the Minister to whom responsibility for the subject of finance is assigned; “qualifying service” means service as a member in each of 2 terms, whether consecutive or not; “retiring allowance” means the allowance payable under section 3; N7 – 1 [Issue 2] National Assembly (Retiring Allowances) Act “retiring member” means a person who ceases or has ceased to be a member; “salary” means an allowance payable to a member under the National Assembly Allowances Act and includes any cost of living allowance, by whatever name called; “term” means a period beginning with the first sitting of the Assembly following a dissolution of Parliament and ending with the next dissolution of Parliament or part of such period. [S. 2 amended by Act 16 of 1988; Act 48 of 1991; Act 1 of 1996; Act 7 of 1996; Act 18 of 1999.]