Section 21: Continuity of service

(1) Except as otherwise provided in these Regulations, only continuous service shall be taken into account as qualifying service or as pensionable service; except that any break in service which- (a) does not arise from misconduct or voluntary resignation; (b) has been approved by the Pensions Authority on any reasonable grounds; or (c) in the case of an officer of the Ministry of Education who, before the break, was employed as a school teacher, arises from membership of Parliament, shall be disregarded for the purposes of this subregulation. (2) An officer- (a) who has retired from the public service without pension on account of ill health, abolition of office, or re-organisation designed to effect greater efficiency or economy, and has subsequently been re-employed in the public service; or (b) who has left pensionable service under the Teachers' (Superannuation) Act, 1925, of the United Kingdom or any Act of the United Kingdom amending or replacing that Act, or under the Oversea Superannuation Scheme, or under any enactment approved by the Pensions Authority for the purpose of this regulation, with a view to entering public service not being service pensionable under such Act, scheme or enactment, and has, not later than three months, or such extended period as the Pensions Authority may in any particular case approve, after leaving such first-mentioned service, received any salary in respect of employment in public service not so pensionable, may, if the Pensions Authority thinks fit, be granted the pension or gratuity for which he or she would have been eligible if any break in his or her public service immediately prior to such re- employment or employment had not occurred, such pension to be in lieu of- (i) any pension previously granted to him or her from the public funds of Uganda; and (ii) any gratuity so granted which is required to be refunded as a condition of the application to the officer of this regulation, but additional to any gratuity so granted which is not required to be so refunded.