Uganda Act or statute

Parliament of Uganda

Salaries and Allowances (Specified Officers) Act

Defines "commission" as including the National Citizenship and Immigration Board and defines "specified officers" as those listed in the First Schedule to the Act. Parliament may, by resolution, a…

Jurisdiction: Uganda
Structure: 6 provisions
Citation: Chapter 291
Dates: As at 31 Dec 2000

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Dates: As at 31 Dec 2000

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“Defines "commission" as including the National Citizenship and Immigration Board and defines "specified officers" as those listed in the First Schedule to the Act.”

Defines "commission" as including the National Citizenship and Immigration Board and defines "specified officers" as those listed in the First Schedule to the Act. Parliament may, by resolution, amend the First Schedule to this Act. Specified officers must be paid the salaries, allowances and benefits prescribed in the Second Schedule; Parliament may amend that Schedule by resolution. The Minister responsible for public service may, by statutory instrument, make regulations to carry the Act into effect. If a specified officer who is not entitled to pension or gratuity ceases to hold office, they must be paid a gratuity equal to one year’s salary or 30% of salary per completed year of service, whichever is greater; certain resignations or removals bar entitlement; gratuity charged on the Consolidated Fund.

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Defines "commission" as including the National Citizenship and Immigration Board and defines "specified officers" as those listed in the First Schedule to the Act.

Section 1

Amendment of First Schedule

Parliament may, by resolution, amend the First Schedule to this Act.

Section 2

Regulations

The Minister responsible for public service may, by statutory instrument, make regulations to carry the Act into effect.

Section 4

Gratuity payable to certain specified officers

If a specified officer who is not entitled to pension or gratuity ceases to hold office, they must be paid a gratuity equal to one year’s salary or 30% of salary per completed year of service, whichever is greater; certain resignations…

Section 5

Protection of accrued rights

Nothing in this Act shall prejudice any rights acquired under the Salaries and Allowances (Specified Officers) Act, 1984, or any other enactment and rights accrued or lawfully enjoyed before the commencement of this Act.

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Amendment 2Provision 2InterpretationCommencement

§ 1InterpretationInterpretation

Defines "commission" as including the National Citizenship and Immigration Board and defines "specified officers" as those listed in the First Schedule to the Act.

Section Interpretation Section In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires— " commission " includes the National Citizenship and Immigration Board established by article 16 of the Constitution; " specified officers " means the officers specified in the First Schedule to this Act.

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§ 2Amendment of First ScheduleAmendment

Parliament may, by resolution, amend the First Schedule to this Act.

Section Amendment of First Schedule Section Parliament may by resolution amend the First Schedule to this Act. A resolution passed under this section shall, as soon as possible, be published in the Gazette .

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§ 3Salaries and allowances of specified officersAmendment

Specified officers must be paid the salaries, allowances and benefits prescribed in the Second Schedule; Parliament may amend that Schedule by resolution.

Section Salaries and allowances of specified officers Section Specified officers shall be paid such salaries and allowances and afforded such benefits as are prescribed respectively in relation to their offices in the Second Schedule to this Act. Parliament may, by resolution, amend the Second Schedule to this Act. A resolution passed under subsection (2) shall, as soon as possible, be published in the Gazette . Subject to article 158 of the Constitution, a resolution under this section may be given retrospective effect. For the purposes of this Act, the salaries and allowances of the chairperson and members of a commission and the Inspector General of Police, the Deputy Inspector General of Police, the Commissioner of Prisons and the Deputy Commissioner of Prisons mentioned in the First Schedule to this Act shall be charged on the Consolidated Fund. For the avoidance of doubt, the cost of any benefits afforded to specified officers under the Second Schedule to this Act shall be charged on the Consolidated Fund.

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§ 4RegulationsProvision

The Minister responsible for public service may, by statutory instrument, make regulations to carry the Act into effect.

Section Regulations Section The Minister responsible for public service may, by statutory instrument, make regulations for carrying into effect the provisions and purposes of this Act.

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§ 5Gratuity payable to certain specified officersProvision

Section Gratuity payable to certain specified officers Section Where under the terms of appointment of a specified officer, he or she is not entitled to receive any pension or gratuity in respect of his or her service, the specified officer shall, upon ceasing to hold office, be paid in respect of his or her service as a specified officer a gratuity amounting to one year’s salary in that office or at a rate of 30 percent of that salary for each completed year of his or her service in that office, whichever is the greater. A specified officer referred to in subsection (1) is not entitled to gratuity under that subsection if he or she resigns from the office or is removed from that office in accordance with the Constitution for inability to perform the functions of his or her office or for misbehaviour or misconduct, except where the removal is as a result of infirmity of mind or body which does not result from his or her own willful neglect or default or misbehaviour. Any gratuity payable under this section shall be charged on the Consolidated Fund.

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§ 6Protection of accrued rightsCommencement

Section Protection of accrued rights Section Nothing in this Act shall prejudice any rights acquired under the Salaries and Allowances (Specified Officers) Act, 1984, or any other enactment and accrued or otherwise lawfully enjoyed before the commencement of this Act.

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First Schedule Section Parliament may by resolution amend the First Schedule to this Act
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Prisons and the Deputy Commissioner of Prisons mentioned in the First Schedule to this Act
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