b) to promote programmes specifically aimed at achieving the greatest possible development of the disabled". Employment Act, 3 April 1995 Section 44. Exception in case of disabled person: "Where the competent officer is satisfied that a worker or person seeking employment is suffering from some disability which makes it difficult for him to compete on the labour market, the competent officer may issue to him a permit exempting the person who employs him from any regulations made under section 40.1a) (wages to be paid) subject to such conditions as the competent officer deems fit to include in the permit. Section 66.1: "A person who has attained retirement age shall not without the written approval of the competent officer or after such approval has been withdraw, remain in the employment of, or take up employment with another person". 2: "An employer shall not employ a person who has reached retirement age unless that person has the written approval of the competent officer and such approval has not been withdrawn". The "International Trade Zone (Employment) Regulations, 1997" contemplates the retirement age in its Regulation 40, in the same way. The creation and maintenance of a Social Security System, together with an improvement on the economy, has allowed, along with other measures, the elimination in the country of the extreme poverty. Pensions Act, 13/05/1933. Laws of Seychelles 1996. Section 6.1: No pension, gratuity or other allowance shall be granted to any officer except on his retirement from the public service in one of the following cases: a) "on or after attaining the age of fifty five years, or in special cases with the approval of the President on or after attaining the age of forty five; or the minister on the completion of twenty five years of continuous service with the government of Seychelles […]; b) in the case of transfer to other public service, on or after attaining the age at which he is permitted by the law or regulations of the service in which he is last employed to retire on pension or gratuity; c) on the abolition of his office; d) on the compulsory retirement […] by which greater efficiency and economy can be effected; e) on medical evidence […]; f) in the case of termination of service in the public interest […]; g) in the case of non-commissioned officers and constables of the police force, on or after attaining the age of fifty –five years or, with the approval of the President at any time after attaining the age of forty five. h) in the case of a designated officer, […] if the officer’s conditions are not fair and reasonable.