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Prime Minister’s Pension
PRIME MINISTER’S PENSION ACT

CHAPTER 2:51

LAWS OF TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO

Act
23 of 1969

Amended by
41 of 1976

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Prime Minister’s PensionChap. 2:512

Note on Subsidiary Legislation
This Chapter contains no subsidiary legislation.

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CHAPTER 2:51

PRIME MINISTER’S PENSION ACT

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
SECTION

1. Short title.
2. Interpretation.
3. Prime Minister’s right to pension.
4. Gratuity and pension payable to Prime Minister.
5. Widow’s pension.
6. Children’s pension.
7. Source and method of payment of pensions.
8. Protection of pensions.

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*Deemed to have come into operation on 31st August, 1962.

CHAPTER 2:51

PRIME MINISTER’S PENSION ACT
An Act to provide for the payment of pensions to persons

who have served as Prime Minister and to the widows
and children of such persons, and for matters connected
with or incidental thereto.

[23RD JULY 1969]
1. This Act may be cited as the Prime Minister’s Pension Act.

2. In this Act—
“child” includes—

(a) a posthumous child;
(b) an adopted child, adopted in a manner recognised

by law, before the Prime Minister ceased to be
Prime Minister;

“entitled child” means a person who, being a male has not attained
the age of twenty-one years or being a female, has neither
married while under the age of twenty-one years nor attained
the age of twenty-one years;

“Prime Minister’s pension” means the pension payable under this
Act to a person who has ceased to be Prime Minister;

“salary” means the emoluments provided in the estimates of
expenditure of Trinidad and Tobago, exclusive of duty
allowance, entertainment allowance or any other allowance
whatever.

3. (1) Every person who having been appointed Prime
Minister on or after the 31st day of August, 1962, ceases at any
time after such appointment to be Prime Minister shall be paid a
pension under this Act with effect from the date on which he ceases
to be Prime Minister and subject to subsection (2) the pension
shall continue to be paid during the lifetime of that person.

(2) The Prime Minister’s pension shall, if the person to
whom it is payable becomes a legislator or is again appointed
Prime Minister, cease to be payable during the period in respect

23 of 1969.

Commencement.

Short title.

Interpretation.

Prime Minister’s
right to pension.
[*41 of 1976].

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Ch. 2:03.

Gratuity and
pension payable
to Prime
Minister.
[*41 of 1976].

of which that person is a legislator or holds the office of Prime
Minister, as the case may be, but where the rate of the Prime
Minister’s pension exceeds the rate of salary as a legislator, nothing
in this subsection shall prevent the payment of the Prime Minister’s
pension to the extent of such excess.

(3) In subsection (2) “legislator” has the meaning
assigned to it by section 2 of the Retiring Allowances (Legislative
Service) Act.

4. (1) The Prime Minister’s pension payable under this Act
to any person shall be the full amount of the highest annual rate of
salary paid to such person at any time as Prime Minister.

(2) A person to whom a pension is payable under this Act
shall, where he has exercised his option as herein provided, but
not otherwise, be paid in lieu of such pension, pension at the rate
of three-fourths of such pension, together with a gratuity equal to
twelve and a half times the amount of the annual reduction so
made in the pension.

(3) The option referred to in subsection (2) shall be
exercisable, and where it has been exercised, may be revoked, not
later than the day immediately preceding the date of such person
ceasing to be Prime Minister but the Cabinet may, where it appears
equitable to do so, allow him to exercise the option or revoke an
option previously exercised at any time between that date and the
actual date of the first payment of any pension under this Act.

(4) Subject to subsection (3), where such person has
exercised the option referred to in subsection (2), his decision shall
be irrevocable so far as concerns any pension paid to him under
this Act.

(5) Where a person who has not exercised the option dies
after he has ceased to be Prime Minister but before a pension has
been paid under this Act, there shall be granted to his legal personal
representatives a gratuity and a reduced pension as provided for in
subsection (2) as if such person before his death had exercised the
option therein referred to, so however that such pension shall not
be paid in respect of any period later than the date of the death of
such person and shall not exceed in the aggregate the total amount
due and payable to him on the said date.

*Deemed to have come into operation on 31st August, 1962.

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(6) The date of the exercise of the option by such person
shall be deemed to be the date of the receipt of his written
notification addressed to the Secretary of the Cabinet.

5. (1) Where a person dies while he is entitled to receive a
Prime Minister’s pension and he leaves a widow, the widow shall,
subject to subsection (3), be paid a pension at an annual rate
equivalent to two-thirds of the Prime Minister’s pension that would
have been payable to him had he otherwise ceased to hold office
on the date of his death.

(2) Where a person dies while holding the office of Prime
Minister and he leaves a widow, the widow shall be paid—

(a) a gratuity of an amount equivalent to twelve and
one-half times one-quarter of the highest annual
rate of salary paid to such person at any time as
Prime Minister; and

(b) a pension equivalent to one-half of the highest
annual rate of salary paid to such person at any
time as Prime Minister.

(3) A widow is not entitled to receive and may not be
paid a pension under this section in respect of any period after
her remarriage.

(4) Without prejudice to section 16(1) of the Interpretation
Act, a reference in this Act to “widow” includes a reference to
“widower”.

(5) Where a person dies while he is holding the office of
Prime Minister and he does not leave a widow, a gratuity of an
amount equivalent to twelve and one-half times one quarter of the
highest annual salary paid to such person at any time as Prime
Minister shall be paid to his legal personal representatives on
account of the deceased person’s estate.

6. Where a person dies while he is Prime Minister or while
he is entitled to receive the Prime Minister’s pension, leaving
entitled children, each of such children shall be paid, until he dies
or ceases to be an entitled child, such pension at such rate as the

Widow’s
pension.
[*41 of 1976].

Ch. 3:01.

Children’s
pension.

*Deemed to have come into operation on 31st August, 1962.

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Source and
method of
payment of
pensions.

Protection of
pensions.

Prime Minister shall determine; so however that—
(a) where there is one entitled child, the annual

rate of pension payable shall not exceed one-sixth
of the annual rate specified in section 4; or

(b) where there is more than one entitled child, the
aggregate rate of pension payable shall not
exceed one-third of the annual rate specified in
section 4.

7. Any pension payable under this Act—
(a) shall be charged on and paid out of the

Consolidated Fund;
(b) shall be paid monthly in arrears in equal

instalments.

8. Any pension payable under this Act shall not—
(a) be assignable or transferable except for the

purpose of satisfying a debt due to the State or an
order of any Court for the payment of periodical
sums of money towards the maintenance of the
wife, former wife, or child being a minor child of
the person to whom the pension is payable; or

(b) be liable to be attached, sequestered or levied
upon for or in respect of any debt or claim
whatever except a debt due to the State or any
sum recoverable pursuant to such order of any
Court as is mentioned in paragraph (a).

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