Section 128: Former employees of Directorate of Industrial

Training on permanent and pensionable terms (1) Nothing in this Act shall affect the pension rights of a pensionable person under the Pension Act, who was formerly in employment with the Directorate of Industrial Training. (2) The Uganda Vocational and Technical Assessment Board may, on the effective date of its operations, accept into its employment a person who immediately before the commencement of this Act was an employee of Directorate of Industrial Training on permanent and pensionable terms and has opted to serve as an employee of the Uganda Vocational and Technical Assessment Board subject to the availability of vacancies. (3) Where an employee of Directorate of Industrial Training on permanent and pensionable terms is appointed as a staff of the Uganda Vocational and Technical Assessment Board in accordance with subsection (2), he or she shall retire from education service or public service in accordance with the enabling law. SCHEDULES Schedule 1 Section 2 Currency point One currency point is equivalent to twenty thousand shillings Schedule 2 Section 4 (4) Seal of Council