67.-(1) Every male teacher so retired who has served for not less than fifteen years and every female teacher so retired who has served for not less than ten years shall on the certificate of the Director that such teacher has discharged the duties of his office with fidelity and zeal receive a gratuity of one month’s salary at the rate of the salary such teacher is then receiving for every year of service.
(2) Every male teacher on the Permanent Staff Register who has served for not less then fifteen years and every female teacher on the Permanent Staff Register who has served for not less than ten years or has become married may be allowed to retire at his own desire and on the certificate of the Director that such teacher has discharged the duties of his office with fidelity and zeal shall, subject always to the provisions of section 68(2) of this Law, receive a gratuity of one month’s salary at the rate of the salary such teacher is then receiving for every year of service.
(3) No male teacher who has served for less than fifteen years nor a female teacher who has served for less than ten years shall be entitled to a gratuity:
Provided that a male teacher on the Permanent Staff Register who has served for less than fifteen years and a female teacher on the Permanent Staff Register who has served for less than ten years and who is being retired on medical evidence to the satisfaction of the Governor that such teacher is incapable by reason of some infirmity of mind or body of discharging the duties of his or her office, and that such infirmity is likely to be permanent may, with the approval of the Governor, receive a gratuity of one month’s salary at the rate of the salary such teacher is then receiving for every year of service after the date applicable to such teacher as in subsection (5) hereof prescribed.
(4) If a teacher on the Permanent Staff Register though not suffering from any particular illness or infirmity of mind or body likely to be permanent becomes unfit in the opinion of the Governor on the advice of the Director for the discharge of the duties of his office although not of the prescribed age for retirement, the Governor may order the name of such teacher to be removed from the Permanent Staff Register, and if such unfitness is not attributable to misconduct or gross negligence and on the certificate of the Director that such teacher has discharged the duties of his office with fidelity and zeal, the Governor may authorise the payment of a gratuity to such teacher of one month’s salary at the rate of the salary such teacher is then receiving for every year of service.
(5) The period of fifteen years of service in the case of male teachers and of ten years of service in the case of female teachers in this section prescribed shall in computing the gratuities of teachers who were serving as teachers in Greek-Orthodox schools on the 1st day of September, 1923, or as teachers in schools other than Greek-Orthodox on the 1st day of October, 1920, be deemed to have commenced-
(a) for Greek-Orthodox teachers on the 1st day of September 1923, and
(b) for teachers other than Greek-Orthodox on the 1st day of October, 1920.