Section 2: Interpretation

2. Interpretation In this Act— “associate” has the meaning assigned to it by section 11; “beneficiary” means a person to whom a benefit is payable under section 14; “benefit” means any sum payable from the Fund under section 14; “Board” means the Board established by section 4; “child” means a child who, being at the material time wholly dependent on an associate for support, shall, in the event of his being still so dependent immediately before the death of that associate, be an eligible child; * EDITORIAL NOTE: This Act previously bore the title of “The Widows’ and Orphans’ (Statutory Bodies) Pension Fund Act”. S40 – 1 [Issue 4] Statutory Bodies Family Protection Fund Act “eligible child”— (a) means a legitimate posthumous child of an associate and any of the following children who, immediately before the death of an associate, was wholly dependent on that associate for support— (i) a legitimate child of the associate; (ii) a stepchild of the associate whose father was not an associate; (iii) a child lawfully adopted by the associate; (iv) a child born out of wedlock duly acknowledged by the associate or whose filiation has been pronounced by a Court; (b) does not include a person who— (i) being a female, has attained the age of 21 or has married; or (ii) being a male, has attained the age of 18 or has completed his full-time education or is still receiving full-time education but has attained the age of 21, whichever event occurs later; “Fund” means the Statutory Bodies Family Protection Fund established under section 3; “initial date of contributions” means, in relation to a local authority or its officers, 1 July 1966 and, in relation to any other statutory body or its officers, a date not later than 2 months after the publication of a declaration made under section 19; “local authority” has the same meaning as in the Local Government Act; “marriage”, in relation to an associate— (a) means a civil marriage; (b) does not include a marriage contracted after the associate has ceased to be an officer; “Minister” means the Minister to whom responsibility for the subject of local government is assigned; “officer” means a person in the permanent and full-time employment of a statutory body, including an employee of the Fund; “retire” means to cease to be in service before attaining 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, in conditions of physical or mental health which, in the opinion of the Board at the time of the cessation, make the possibility of future employment unlikely; “Secretary” means the Secretary to the Board; “service” means service as an officer; “statutory body” means a local authority and any other undertaking declared to be a statutory body under section 19; [Issue 4] S40 – 2 Revised Laws of Mauritius “withdraw” means to cease to be in service before attaining 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, otherwise than through retirement. [S. 2 amended by Act 29 of 1993; Act 15 of 1998; s. 3 of Act 28 of 2001 w.e.f. 1 July 2001; s. 34 (a) of Act 18 of 2008 w.e.f. 1 July 2008; s. 165 (19) of Act 36 of 2011 w.e.f. 15 December 2011.]