Indians Education Amendment Act 60 of 1967

Indians Education Amendment Act, 1967 (No. 60 of 1967)

Act

to amend section 13 of the Indians Education Act, 1965, to provide for the retention of certain benefits by certain persons who are transferred to the Service of the Department of Indian Affairs or are deemed to have been appointed under the provisions of the said Act. 

(English text signed by the State President.)
(Assented to 1st May, 1967.)

Be it enacted by the State President, the Senate and the House of Assembly of the Republic of South Africa, as follows:-

Amendment of section 13 of Act 61 of 1965.

1. Section 13 of the Indians Education Act, 1965 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act), is hereby amended by the addition of the following subsection:

"(7) (a) If any person who is transferred to the service of the Department by virtue of the provisions of section 9 or is deemed to have been appointed to a post under the provisions of this Act, and who was not immediately prior to the commencement of this Act a member of or a contributor to a pension or provident fund which is governed by a pension law administered by a provincial administration, for any reason retires or is retired or discharged from the service of the Department or from the public service, he shall, subject to the provisions of paragraph (b), be entitled to the benefit which would have been payable to him under the provisions of that pension law if on that date he had retired or had been retired or discharged for the same reason from the service of his previous employer.

(b) If such person so retires or is so retired or discharged by reason of the age he has attained, he shall for the purposes of such pension law be deemed to have attained the age prescribed for retirement by that pension law on the said date.

(c) If any person to whom the provisions of paragraph (a) apply, dies before his retirement or discharge from the service of the Department or the public service, there shall be paid the benefit which would have been payable in terms of the appropriate pension law referred to in subsection (1) (b) if he had died on the day immediately prior to the commencement of this Act.

(d) A benefit payable in terms of this subsection, shall be paid from the revenue fund of the province concerned.".

Short title and commencement.

2. This Act shall be called the Indians Education Amendment Act, 1967, and shall, in so far as a school is concerned in respect of which the provisions of the principal Act came into operation before the date of commencement of this Act, be deemed to have come into operation on the date on which the principal Act came into operation in respect of such school.

Commencement

10 May 1967