"pensions benefits" means any pensions, commutation of pensions, gratuities or other like allowances or refund of pension contributions, including any interest payable thereon, for persons in respect of their service as public officers or any ill-health or injury arising out of and in the course of their official duties or for the spouses, children, dependants or personal representatives of such persons in respect of such service, illhealth or injury. (7) References in this paragraph to the law with respect to pensions benefits include, without derogation from their generality, references to the law regulating — (a) the circumstances in which such benefits may be granted or in which the grant of such benefits may be refused; (b) the circumstances in which any such benefits that have been granted may be increased, withheld reduced in amount or suspended; or (c) the amount of any such benefits. 2. Remittability of pensions (1) Any person who is entitled to receive a pension and who is not ordinarily resident in Zimbabwe shall not be prevented from having remitted to him outside Zimbabwe, free from any deduction, tax or charge, other than ordinary charges, made or levied in respect of its remission(a) any payment of a pension to which he is entitled; and (b) subject to such restrictions as may be imposed by or under an Act of Parliament which are not greater than those which could have been imposed immediately before the appointed day, the amount of any commutation of a pension in such cases and to such extent as was prescribed by law immediately before that day. (1a) Notwithstanding anything in subparagraph (b) of subparagraph (1), provision may be made by or under an Act of Parliament limiting the amount of any commutation of a pension which may be remitted to any person outside Zimbabwe in any period of twelve months, and any such limitation may be greater than might have been imposed or prescribed immediately before the appointed day. (2) Any amount which a person is entitled to have remitted under this paragraph shall not be deducted from the amount of money that he may be entitled to have remitted outside Zimbabwe by or under this Constitution or any law. (3) In this paragraph— "pension" means any pension or annuity which is payable (a) from the Consolidated Revenue Fund to any public officer or former public officer or other person by or under this Constitution or any Act of Parliament; or (b) in accordance with the rules of any pension fund to— (i) a person who was a member of that fund upon his retirement on account of age or ill-health or other termination of service or on attaining a specified age; or (ii) the spouse, children or dependants of a person who was a member of that fund upon or after the death of such former member; and which is payable for the lifetime of the recipient or for a specified period or until the happening of a specified event; - 111 -