Section 6: Apportionment of certain pensions.

(1) The following provisions of this section shall have effect in relation to any pension, gratuity or other like benefit (in this section referred to as "the pension") properly payable to any officer to whom this section applies or to the widow, widower, children, dependants or personal representatives of any such officer, under or pursuant to any enactment (other than this Act) relating to pensions, in respect of service of that officer in any public service in the Federation.
(2) The cost of the pension payable in respect of the public service of any officer to whom this section applies shall be shared by the Federation and any State to which the officer is transferred or, as the case may be, by the Federation and each State in the public service of which the officer has served, so that the Federation shall pay such amount of the pension as is proportionate to the aggregate amount of the pensionable emoluments received by the officer in respect of his service in the public service of the Federation within the meaning of this section, and the State to which the officer is transferred or, as the case may be, the State in which he has served, shall pay such amount of the pension as is proportionate to the aggregate amount of the pensionable emoluments received by that officer in respect of his service in the public service of that State.
(3) This section applies to the following officers, that is to say-
(a) any officer in the public service of a former Region who becomes an officer in the public service of the Federation under section 1 or 2 of this Act;
(b) any officer in the public service of a former Region (not being an officer to whom paragraph (a) of this subsection applies), who, on or after the appointed day, is transferred to the public service of any State;
(c) an officer who, under section 4 (2) of this Act, is deemed to have retired from the public service of the Federation in consequence of the abolition of his office.
(4) For the purposes of this section-
(a) service in the public service of a former Region for any period commencing on or after 1st October, 1954 and ending immediately before 1st April 1968; and
(b)
service with the Interim Administrative Councils established under the Interim Administrative Council Act or, as the case may be, with any State, for any period commencing on or after 27 May, 1967 and ending immediately before 1st April, 1968, shall be deemed to be service in the public service of the Federation.