Section 2: Interpretation

2. Interpretation In this Act— “actuarial reserve”, in relation to an officer, means the value at any given date of the accrued pension benefits for which the officer has qualified in respect of his period of pensionable service up to that date; “actuary” means the actuary of SICOM; “beneficiary” means a person to whom a pension benefit is payable; “car benefit” means the monetary value accruing to an officer whose conditions of service entitle him to the use of a chauffeur driven official car, or a self-driven official car, as may be prescribed; S42 – 1 [Issue 7] Statutory Bodies Pension Funds Act “Committee” means the Public Pensions Advisory Committee set up under section 19 of the Pensions Act; “commuted pension gratuity” means the gratuity which would have been payable to an officer if he had retired at the time of his death and had elected to receive a gratuity and a reduced pension under section 11; “contractual employee” means a person employed on a contractual basis in a statutory body and whose office is not a pensionable office; “death gratuity” means the gratuity payable under section 15 (1) (a); “Fund” means the appropriate Pension Fund established in relation to a statutory body under section 3; “individual account”, in relation to a participant, means his individual non-withdrawal account; “legal personal representative”, in relation to a deceased officer or a deceased pensioner, means the person entitled to his succession; “local authority” has the same meaning as in the Local Government Act; “Minister” means the Minister to whom responsibility for the subject of finance is assigned; “officer” means a person in the permanent and full-time employment of a statutory body or a person recruited in a statutory body under a traineeship, studentship, cadetship or apprenticeship scheme; “participant”, in relation to the Scheme, means an officer, a trainee, student, a cadet, an apprentice, or a contractual employee, who adheres to the Scheme; “past service” means past service in a pensionable capacity in the public service, a statutory body or a local authority; “pension benefit” means a pension, compensation, gratuity or other like allowance payable in relation to an officer in respect of his pensionable service with a statutory body; “pensionable emoluments”— (a) includes salary, car benefit, personal pensionable allowance, house allowance, the estimated value of free quarters or rent allowance as may be prescribed and any allowance in the nature of a cost of living allowance or additional remuneration, by whatever name called; but (b) does not include duty allowance, entertainment allowance or any other allowance paid to an officer at the time of his retirement; “pensionable office”— (a) means an office held by an officer; and [Issue 7] S42 – 2 Revised Laws of Mauritius (b) in relation to a local authority, includes an office in the establishment of the local authority or an office which has been declared as such by the local authority with the approval of the Local Government Service Commission and published in the Gazette; “pensionable service” has the meaning assigned to it in section 7; “public service” means service in a civil capacity under the Government of Mauritius; “Scheme” means the Public Pensions Defined Contribution Pension Scheme set up under section 18 of the Pensions Act; “service” means service as an officer; “SICOM” means the State Insurance Company of Mauritius Limited; “statutory body”— (a) means a body sp with the approval of the Local Government Service Commission and published in the Gazette; “pensionable service” has the meaning assigned to it in section 7; “public service” means service in a civil capacity under the Government of Mauritius; “Scheme” means the Public Pensions Defined Contribution Pension Scheme set up under section 18 of the Pensions Act; “service” means service as an officer; “SICOM” means the State Insurance Company of Mauritius Limited; “statutory body”— (a) means a body specified in the First Schedule; and (b) includes, for the purpose of the Scheme, a secondary school as defined in the Private Secondary Schools Authority Act. [S. 2 amended by Act 6 of 1989; Act 5 of 1991; Act 7 of 2000; s. 3 of Act 30 of 2004 w.e.f. 1 July 2003; s. 35 (a) of Act 18 of 2008 w.e.f. 1 July 2008; s. 165 (21) of Act 36 of 2011 w.e.f. 15 December 2011; s. 26 (b) of Act 26 of 2012 w.e.f. 22 December 2012; s. 27 (a) of Act 26 of 2013 w.e.f. 1 January 2013.]