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Article 199 — Retiring Age and Pension

Article
199
Index row title
Retiring Age and Pension
Source document
The ghana constitution
Provision ID
9c2586e7-825a-473f-9079-910521ed5c30

140 words

Verbatim text

(1) A public officer shall, except as otherwise pro vided in this Constitution, retire from the public service on attaining the age of sixty years. (2) A public officer may, except as otherwise provi ded in this Constitution, retire from the public service at any time after attaining the age of forty-five years. (3) The pension payable to any person shall be exem pt from tax. 8[(4) Notwithstanding clause (1) of this article, a public officer who has retired from the public service after attaining the age of sixty-fiv e years may, where the exigencies of the service require, be engaged for a limited period of not more than two years at a time but not exceeding five years in all and upon such other ter ms and conditions as the appointing authority shall determine.] CHAPTER FIFTEEN THE POLICE SERVICE

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  • The index files this text under article 199 of the Constitution of Ghana.
  • The row is titled “Retiring Age and Pension”.
  • The passage runs to about 140 words.
  • Read plainly, it mentions pay and pensions — it sets pay, salary, allowance or pension terms (the words used: “pension”); it mentions police powers — it sets out what the police or other security services may do (the words used: “POLICE”).

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