ADVOKS GLOBAL · KENYA
Asian Officers’ Family Pensions Act
14. Contributions of members
Edition: 1971-06-04 · In force
14. Contributions of members
(1)Save as otherwise provided in this Act, every member shall contribute to the Fund at the rate of four and one-half per centum per annum of his annual salary or pension for the time being:Provided that no member shall be required to contribute at a higher rate than £60 a year.(2)If a member is on leave on part salary or without salary, or is under interdiction, he shall contribute at the ordinary rate.(3)Contributions under this section shall accrue daily, and shall be deducted monthly in arrear from the salary or pension, as the case may be, of each member, and, if during a period of leave without salary a member does not pay his contributions, the amount of his contributions in arrear shall be deducted from the salary payable to him subsequent to such leave in such instalments as the Board may in each case determine.(4)A member may, within three months after the date of his first payment of contribution under this Act or within three months after marrying, by written notice to the Board elect to make an additional annual contribution of two and one-quarter percentum of his annual salary:Provided that a member who has not so elected within the time prescribed by this section may, with the approval of the Board and subject to passing a medical examination to the satisfaction of the Board, be permitted so to elect at any time during the term of his contributions.(5)Any member who elects to make an additional annual contribution shall make it accordingly as from the date on which he first became a member, or as from the first day of the month next after that upon which his notice was received by the Board, or as from the first day of the month next after that upon which the Board’s approval was given to his subsequent election, as the case may be.(6)No member shall be allowed to make more than one additional annual contribution under this Act.(7)No member shall after attaining the age of fifty-four years contribute at a higher rate than that at which he was contributing immediately before attaining that age.(8)Any election to make an additional contribution under this section may be revoked by notification to the Permanent Secretary to the Treasury to discontinue such additional contribution as from the beginning of the month next after that in which the notification of his revocation is received by the Permanent Secretary to the Treasury.