Section 11: Associateship of Fund

11. Associateship of Fund (1) Subject to this section, every officer who has attained the age of 18 and was appointed before 1 January 2013 shall be deemed to be an associate and shall be liable to contribute to the Fund in accordance with this Act. (1A) – (1C) — (2) Where an associate or a contributor to the Civil Service Family Protection Scheme is seconded for duty to a statutory body and his annual salary from the statutory body is greater than the annual salary he was receiving immediately before his secondment, he shall be deemed during the secondment to be an associate. (3) Every officer deemed to be an associate under this section shall, within one month of the initial date of contributions, furnish to the Board in writing and on an appropriate form to be supplied by the Board on his application, the following information supported by such evidence as the Board may require— (a) the date of his birth; (b) if he is married, the date of his marriage and of the birth of his spouse; (c) if he is a widower, the date of his marriage and of the birth and death of his late spouse; and (d) full particulars of any children supported by him. (4) The Board may, within 3 months of the initial date of contributions and after considering such evidence as it may call for regarding the state of health of an officer, decide either that he shall not be deemed an associate or that he shall be deemed an associate on such terms of contributions and benefits as the Board may determine. (5) (a) A decision of the Board under subsection (4) shall be final and shall be notified to the officer without the Board being bound to assign any reason for it. (b) Where, as a result of a decision of the Board under subsection (4), it is necessary to refund any contributions already made to the Fund by the officer concerned, such refund shall be effected forthwith. (6) Every statutory body shall, in every year, not later than 1 August or such other date as may be prescribed, furnish to the Board a list of its associates and of their respective annual salaries. (7) Every associate who resigns from a statutory body to take up employment with another statutory body shall continue to be an associate of the Fund. (8) An officer deemed to be an associate under this section shall cease to be an associate only if he dies or withdraws or attains the age of 60 or the appropriate new retirement date specified in the second column of the Schedule corresponding to the appropriate month and year of birth specified in the first column of that Schedule. [S. 11 amended by Act 1 of 1983; Act 23 of 1988; Act 29 of 1993; s. 34 (b) of Act 18 of 2008 w.e.f. 1 July 2008; s. 25 of Act 26 of 2012 w.e.f. 22 December 2012.] [Issue 5] S40 – 6 Revised Laws of Mauritius