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    The Benefits of Former Presidents Act establishes pension and retirement benefits for former presidents of Zambia. It provides former presidents with (1) a tax-free monthly pension of 80% of the current president's salary, (2) other benefits such as housing, vehicles, medical insurance, and staff as outlined in the Schedule. Benefits are also extended to a surviving spouse and children. The benefits are not paid if the former president is convicted of a crime carrying a prison term over 6 months or if removed from office for misconduct.

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    The Benefits of Former Presidents Act establishes pension and retirement benefits for former presidents of Zambia. It provides former presidents with (1) a tax-free monthly pension of 80% of the current president's salary, (2) other benefits such as housing, vehicles, medical insurance, and staff as outlined in the Schedule. Benefits are also extended to a surviving spouse and children. The benefits are not paid if the former president is convicted of a crime carrying a prison term over 6 months or if removed from office for misconduct.

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    The Benefits of Former Presidents Act establishes pension and retirement benefits for former presidents of Zambia. It provides former presidents with (1) a tax-free monthly pension of 80% of the current president's salary, (2) other benefits such as housing, vehicles, medical insurance, and staff as outlined in the Schedule. Benefits are also extended to a surviving spouse and children. The benefits are not paid if the former president is convicted of a crime carrying a prison term over 6 months or if removed from office for misconduct.

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    The Benefits of Former Presidents Act establishes pension and retirement benefits for former presidents of Zambia. It provides former presidents with (1) a tax-free monthly pension of 80% of the current president's salary, (2) other benefits such as housing, vehicles, medical insurance, and staff as outlined in the Schedule. Benefits are also extended to a surviving spouse and children. The benefits are not paid if the former president is convicted of a crime carrying a prison term over 6 months or if removed from office for misconduct.

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    The Laws of Zambia

    REPUBLIC OF ZAMBIA

    THE BENEFITS OF FORMER PRESIDENTS ACT

    CHAPTER 15 OF THE LAWS OF ZAMBIA

    CHAPTER 15 THE BENEFITS OF FORMER PRESIDENTS ACT

    THE BENEFITS OF FORMER PRESIDENTS ACT

    ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

    Section
    1. Short title
    2. Interpretation
    3. Application
    4. Pension and other retirement benefits
    5. Circumstances when benefits not payable
    6. Death of President
    7. Retirement benefits not payable under repealed Act

    CHAPTER 15

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    BENEFITS OF FORMER PRESIDENTS 40 of 1993


    33 of 1994
    An Act to provide for the pension and other retirement benefits of former
    Presidents of the Republic of Zambia; and to provide for matters connected
    with or incidental to the foregoing.

    [24th December, 1993]

    1. This Act may be cited as the Benefits of Former Presidents Act. Short title

    2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires- Interpretation

    "President" means President of the Republic of Zambia; and

    "repealed Act" means the State Leaders Retirement Benefits Act, 1990, or the 5 of 1990
    Specified Offices (Terminal Benefits) Act, 1989. 9 of 1989

    3. This Act applies to all former Presidents, including those that ceased to hold Application
    office before the commencement of this Act.

    4. (1) Subject to the other provisions of this Act, a former President shall, upon Pension and other
    ceasing to hold office, be entitled to- retirement benefits

    (a) a tax free monthly pension at the rate of eighty per cent of the incumbent
    President's emoluments; and

    (b) the benefits set out in Schedule of this Act;


    all of which shall be a charge on the general revenues of the Republic.

    (2) The pension referred to in paragraph (a) of subsection (1) and item 10 of the
    Schedule shall be paid retrospectively.

    5. (1) The pension and other benefits conferred by this Act shall not be paid and Circumstances when
    shall not accrue during any period when a former President is in receipt of a salary from benefits not payable
    the State.

    (2) A former President shall be disqualified from the pension and other benefits
    conferred by this act-

    (a) if he ceases to hold office on the ground of wilful violation of the


    Constitution or of misconduct; or
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    (b) if he is convicted of an offence and sentenced to imprisonment for a term


    exceeding six months;
    and the National Assembly, on a motion supported by not less than two-thirds of the
    members of the Assembly, resolves that the former President shall not receive the whole
    or such part of the pension and other benefits as it may determine.

    6. Where a former President who is entitled to the pension and other benefits Death of President
    conferred by this Act dies while in or after having left office, his spouse and any children of
    the family who have not attained the age of twenty-one years shall be entitled jointly to-
    (a) a tax free monthly pension at the rate of fifty per cent of the incumbent
    President's emoluments; and
    (b) the benefits set out in items 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11 of the Schedule.

    7. (1) Except as provided in subsection (2) of section four, no person shall be Retirement benefits
    entitled to receive any pension or other retirement benefit under any repealed Act, not payable under
    whether he claimed for benefits before or after the commencement of this Act. repealed Act

    (2) Any person who has received a pension or any benefit under any repealed Act
    before the commencement of this Act shall refund to the Government such pension and
    surrender the benefit received or the monetary equivalent of such benefit within six
    months of the commencement of this Act.

    (3) Where any proceedings to claim any pension or other benefit under any
    repealed Act have been instituted before the commencement of this Act, the court shall,
    on the application of the Attorney-General, forthwith dismiss the claim.

    SCHEDULE

    (Sections 4 and 6)

    OTHER BENEFITS

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    1. An office.
    2. One personal secretary.
    3. Three security persons.
    4. Three cars, with free maintenance, and petrol entitlement to the extent determined by the
    Cabinet, but only one car for the surviving spouse.
    5. Three drivers, but only one for the surviving spouse.
    6. One Administrative Assistant, who shall be at the level of Deputy Permanent Secretary.
    7. Three house employees, which number may be increased by Cabinet.
    8. A diplomatic passport for the former President and his spouse.
    9. A furnished house built or bought in Zambia by the State at a place of the former President's
    choice and ownership of the house shall be transferred to him.
    10. Medical insurance for the former President and his spouse.
    11. In each year, one return air ticket for the former President and one for his spouse.
    12. Funeral Expenses on his death.

    (As amended by Act No. 33 of 1994)

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