List Of Pensioners In Uganda
Pensioner is a person who receives a pension, especially the retirement pension.
An Act to provide for the grant and regulating of pensions, gratuities and other allowances in respect of the public service of officers under the Government of Uganda.
Appointment of pensions authority.
The Minister may, by statutory order, appoint a public officer of the rank of Permanent Secretary to be the pensions authority.
Pensions regulations.
(1) Pensions, gratuities and other allowances may be granted by the pensions authority, in accordance with the regulations contained in the First Schedule to this Act, to officers who have been in the service of the Government.
(2) The Minister may amend the Schedules to this Act and with the approval of Cabinet by statutory instrument, vary the pensions, gratuities or the allowances provided for under the Act or any law made under it.
(3) Whenever the pensions authority is satisfied that it is equitable that any regulation made under this section should have retrospective effect in order to confer a benefit upon or remove a disability attaching to any person, that regulation may be given retrospective effect for that purpose; except that no such regulation shall have retrospective effect unless it has received the prior approval of Parliament signified by resolution.
(4) Any pension or gratuity granted under this Act shall be computed in accordance with the provisions in force at the actual date of an officer’s retirement or of his or her death in the public service, as the case may be.
(5) All regulations made under this section shall have the same force and effect as if they were contained in the First Schedule to this Act.
Pensionable service for teachers.
(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in this Act in respect of teachers, only service on or after the 1st day of July, 1953, shall be considered as pensionable service, but any period of service in respect of
which a teacher would have been eligible for gratuity under the Uganda African Teachers Gratuity Regulations, 1952, or during which a teacher contributed to the Uganda Teachers Provident Fund established under the Uganda Teachers Provident Fund Regulations, 1952, shall be considered as
qualifying service.
(2) Any pension granted under this Act to a teacher who has completed a period of previous service in addition to his or her pensionable service shall be increased on and after the 1st July, 1953, by one-twelfth of
5 percent for each complete month of previous service.
(3) In this section, “previous service” means service prior to the 1st
July, 1953, which is qualifying service within the meaning of subsection (1).
Pensionable service for officers in the service of a district administration.
(1) For the purposes of this Act, only service on or after the 1st day of January, 1954, with respect to officers in the service of the former Buganda Government, and on or after the 1st day of January, 1950, in respect of officers in the service of the former Eastern, Western and Northern Provinces shall be taken into account as pensionable service.
(2) This section shall apply only to officers in the service of a district administration.
Option for an officer who is a member of a pension scheme established by an urban authority.
(1) An officer who is a member of a pension scheme established by an urban authority in which he or she is serving may, with effect from the date that the pensions authority may determine, opt to be subject to this Act.
(2) Any officer who exercises the option under subsection (1) shall cease to be a member of the pension scheme of the urban authority in which he or she is serving from the date on which he or she exercises that option.
(3) Any pension or other benefit to which the officer may be entitled under the scheme on the date on which he or she exercises the option, and
which on that date has not been paid to him or her, shall not become payable to the officer, but he or she shall become eligible for a gratuity or other allowance under this Act.
(4) For the avoidance of doubt, it is declared that any pension, gratuity or other allowance granted by the pensions authority to any officer to whom this section applies shall be in addition to, and shall not in any way be affected by, any pension or other benefit to which the officer is entitled under any other pension scheme.
Pensions, etc. charged on and payable out of the Consolidated Fund and other funds.
(1) Subject to this section, all pensions, gratuities or other allowances shall be charged on and payable out of the Consolidated Fund without further appropriation than this Act.
(2) All pensions, gratuities or other allowances granted to any Ugandan national under the Pensions Act of the Community shall be charged
on and payable out of the Consolidated Fund without further appropriation
than this Act.
(3) Any pension, gratuity or other allowance granted under this Act with respect to any officer in the service of a district administration or an urban authority shall be charged on and payable out of the funds of the district administration or urban authority, as the case may be, in which the
officer was serving without further authority than this Act.
Income tax not to be charged upon pension, etc.
Notwithstanding any provision in any written law to the contrary, no income tax shall be charged upon any pension, gratuity or other allowance granted under this Act.
Officers entitled to pensions; prohibition of court proceedings.
(1) Every officer employed in the public service who has qualified for a pension shall be entitled to it.
(2) No proceedings shall be brought in any court on the ground that any provision of this Act has not been complied with.
(3) The question whether the President, the Minister, the pensions authority or any other person or authority has validly exercised any functions under this Act, shall not be inquired into in any court.