S.I. No. 315/1952 - Electricity Supply Board (Confirmation of General Employees' Superannuation (Amendment) (No. 1) Scheme) Order, 1952.

S.I. No. 315 of 1952.

ELECTRICITY SUPPLY BOARD (CONFIRMATION OF GENERAL EMPLOYEES' SUPERANNUATION (AMENDMENT) (NO. 1) SCHEME) ORDER, 1952.

WHEREAS in pursuance of section 6 of the Electricity Supply Board (Superannuation) Act, 1942 (No. 17 of 1942) the Electricity Supply Board has submitted to the Minister for Industry and Commerce the amending superannuation Scheme set out in the Schedule to this Order:

NOW, I, SEÁN F. LEMASS, Minister for Industry and Commerce, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by the Electricity Supply Board (Superannuation) Act, 1942 , and after consultation with the Minister for Finance, hereby order as follows:—

1. This Order may be cited as the Electricity Supply Board (Confirmation of General Employees' Superannuation (Amendment) (No. 1) Scheme) Order, 1952.

2. The Scheme set out in the Schedule to this Order, amending the Scheme confirmed by the Electricity Supply Board (Confirmation of General Employees' Superannuation Scheme) Order, 1943 (S. R. & O., No. 182 of 1943), is hereby confirmed.

SCHEDULE.

ELECTRICITY SUPPLY BOARD GENERAL EMPLOYEES' SUPERANNUATION (AMENDMENT) (NO. 1) SCHEME.

Short Title.

1.—This Scheme may be cited as the Electricity Supply Board General Employees' Superannuation (Amendment (No. 1) Scheme.

Definitions.

2.—(1) In this Scheme, the expression "the Principal Scheme" means the Electricity Supply Board General Employees' Superannuation Scheme.

(2) In this Scheme, a reference by number to a clause is to the clause of the Principal Scheme bearing that number.

Amendment of Principal Scheme.

3. The Principal Scheme is hereby amended in the manner indicated in the subsequent provisions of this Scheme.

Amendment of Clause 1.

4. In Clause 1—

(A) paragraph (7) shall be amended by adding the words "and any person who having become entitled to receive a pension from the Fund is for the time being re—employed by the Board."

(B) paragraph (14) shall be amended by—

adding the word " or " at the end of sub-paragraph (c)

adding the following sub-paragraph

" (d) a Probationer."

(C) paragraph (15) shall be deleted and the following paragraph substituted :—

" (15) (a) "Final Retiring Salary" means the salary received by a contributing member in the year immediately preceding the date of retirement and ending on that date : Provided that in the event of his salary scale having been altered in the five years preceding the date of retirement ` final retiring salary ' shall mean the average yearly salary received by such member during the said five years. Provided also that if the contributing member has been absent on leave at reduced pay or without pay during any part of the hereinbefore mentioned year or five years as the case may be, ` final retiring salary ' shall be calculated by reference to the full rate of salary which would have been payable had the member not been so absent.

(b) In the case of a member who retires or has been retired after the 1st September 1946, the next preceding sub-paragraph shall not apply and ` Final Retiring Salary ' shall mean and shall be deemed always to have meant the salary received by a contributing member in the year immediately preceding the member's normal retiring date (as hereinafter defined) or earlier date of retirement on account of failure of health and ending on that date. Provided that if the member's salary has been altered during the five years preceding the aforesaid date of retirement other than by the normal addition of increments under a salary scale, ` final retiring salary ' shall, if the Committee shall so think fit, mean whichever is the greater of the following two amounts that is to say :—

(i) the amount of the average yearly salary received by the member during the said five years, or

(ii) the amount of salary which would have been received in the year immediately preceding the said date of retirement and ending on that date if the hereinbefore mentioned alteration in salary had not been made.

AND provided that if the contributing member has been absent on leave at reduced pay or without pay during any part of the hereinbefore mentioned year or five years as the case may be ` final retiring salary ' subject as aforesaid shall be calculated by reference to the full rate of salary which would have been payable had the member not been so absent.

(D) sub-paragraph (ii) of paragraph (17) shall be amended by adding the following words—

" but any such person whose contributions to the Fund remain unpaid for a period of three months may, by a resolution of the Committee, be declared to have ceased to be a contributing member as from such date as the resolution shall specify, but any such person shall, on returning to the employment of the Board and as from the date of such re-employment, be reinstated as a contributing member and shall be entitled to reckon as service the period during which he was seconded if, but only if, he shall have paid to the Fund such sum in respect of arrears of contributions and interest thereon as the Committee may determine, and/or shall have agreed in writing to pay such future rates of contribution as the Actuary may prescribe."

Amendment of Clause 23.

5. Clause 23 shall be amended by adding the following sentence :—

" If by reason of any mis-statement of his or her age by a member the rates of contribution payable by him or her shall have been under-assessed the benefit or benefits payable to him or her shall be reduced by such amount as the Actuary shall certify to be appropriate unless the member shall have made good the deficiency in the contributions paid."

Amendment of Clause 24.

6. Clause 24 shall be deleted and the following clause substituted :—

" 24.—(1) Every General Employee in the service of the Board at the date of the confirmation of this Scheme by the Minister who has attained the age of 20 years, or who attains that age before the 30th September, 1943, may by making application in the manner prescribed by Clause 21 hereof not later than the 1st March, 1953, elect to join the Scheme, and any such person who does not so elect shall be thenceforth precluded from joining the Scheme and paying contributions or receiving superannuation benefits under the Scheme.

PROVIDED ALWAYS that a General Employee who has attained the age of 65 years, or in the case of a female employee 60 years, shall not be eligible for admission to the Scheme.

(2) Every General Employee in the service of the Board at the said date of confirmation who shall not have attained the age of 20 years before the 30th September, 1943, may, when he shall have attained the age of 20 years, by making application in the manner prescribed by Clause 21 hereof within three months of his being notified in writing by the Secretary of the Committee of his eligibility to apply for membership, elect to join the Scheme, and any such person who does not so elect shall be thenceforth precluded from joining the Scheme and paying contributions or receiving superannuation benefits under the Scheme.

(3) Every General Employee who enters the service of the Board after the said date of confirmation may, by making application in the manner prescribed by Clause 21 hereof within three months of his being notified in writing by the Secretary of the Committee of his eligibility to apply for membership, elect to join the Scheme, and any such person who does not so elect shall be thenceforth precluded from joining the Scheme and paying contributions or receiving superannuation benefits under the Scheme."

PROVIDED that no such person shall be eligible for admission to the scheme before he shall have attained the age of 20 years or after he shall have attained the age of 65 years, or in the case of a female employee 60 years.

(4) Every General Employee who has been admitted to the Scheme by the Committee shall be entitled to pay, and shall pay, contributions to the Fund in accordance with the Scheme."

Amendment of Clause 30.

7. Clause 30 shall be deleted and the following clause substituted :—

" 30.—(1) The contributions to be paid to the Fund by contributing members and by the Board respectively shall be the following :

(a) Contributions in respect of subsequent service.

(b) Additional contributions (optional in the case of the contributing member) in respect of prior service.

(c) Optional additional contributions to secure optional benefit of the sum or sums as hereinafter provided in Clause 47 payable at normal retiring age or on earlier retirement on account of failure of health, or on death before retirement.

(2) (a) If a contributing member was not in the service of the Board at the date of the confirmation of the Scheme by the Minister, the contributions of such contributing member and of the Board in respect of such contributing member's subsequent service shall depend upon the age of the contributing member on the date as from which he elects to pay contributions and upon class of service (whether technical, non-technical, or female staff) and shall be paid at the rate expressed as a percentage of salary shown in Table No. 1 hereto, until such contributing member's normal retiring date or earlier date of retirement from the service of the Board, and no longer, save and except that in the case of any female General Employee who joins the service of the Board on or after the 1st January, 1953, the said contributions shall be paid at the rate expressed as a percentage of salary shown in Table No. 1 (b).

(b) If a contributing member who was in the service of the Board at the date of the confirmation of the Scheme by the Minister elects to contribute in respect of the whole of his prior service as from the date on which he joins the Scheme, the total joint contribution of the Board and of the contributing member in respect of such member's prior and subsequent service expressed as a percentage of salary shall depend on the class of his service (whether technical, non-technical or female staff) and shall be calculated by taking twice the rate shown in Table No. 1 hereto, according to class of service and the member's age on the date as from which he elects to pay contributions and adding thereto twice the rate shown in Table No. 2 according to class of service and age as aforesaid, multiplied by the number of years of the member's prior service. One half of the contribution so determined shall be payable by the member and one half shall be payable by the Board until such contributing member's normal retiring date or earlier date of retirement from the service of the Board, and no longer.

PROVIDED that the Board may commute that part of its contribution which is equivalent to a rate calculated by multiplying the rate shown in Table No. 2 according to the age of the member on the date as from which he elects to pay contributions by the number of years of his prior service by paying instead for a limited term of years an annuity certain of such amount as the Actuary shall certify to be the equivalent of the part of the contribution so commuted, and the member may commute that part of his contribution which is equivalent to a rate calculated by multiplying the rate shown in Table No. 2 according to his age on the date as from which he elects to pay contributions by the number of years of his prior service by paying instead a lump sum of such amount as the Actuary shall certify to be the equivalent of the part of the contributions so commuted.

(c) If a contributing member who was in the service of the Board at the date of the confirmation of the Scheme by the Minister, does not elect to contribute in respect of prior service or elects to contribute, as from the date on which he joins the Scheme, in respect of part only of his prior service the total joint contribution (hereinafter in this paragraph called " the nett joint contribution ") of the Board and of the contributing member in respect of such member's prior and subsequent service, expressed as a percentage of salary, shall depend on the class of his service (whether technical, non-technical or female staff) and shall be determined by deducting from the total contribution calculated in the manner described in the next preceding paragraph the product of the rate shown in Table No. 2 according to class of service and the member's age on the date on which he joins the Scheme multiplied by the number of years of prior service in respect of which he does not elect to contribute. There shall be payable in equal parts by the Board and the member, until such contributing member's normal retiring date or earlier date of retirement from the service of the Board, and no longer, so much of the nett joint contribution as is equivalent to twice the rate shown in Table No. 1 according to the age of the member on the date on which he entered the service of the Board. The balance of the nett joint contribution shall be divided into two parts (hereinafter called " residual contributions ") in the proportion which the total number of years of the member's prior service bears to the number of years of his prior service in respect of which he elects to contribute, and the residual contribution proportionate to his total prior service shall be payable by the Board, and the residual contribution proportionate to the number of years of his prior service in respect of which he elects to contribute shall be payable by the contributing member until such member's normal retiring date or earlier date of retirement from the service of the Board, and no longer :

PROVIDED that the Board may commute that part of its residual contribution which is equivalent to a rate calculated by multiplying the rate shown in Table No. 2 according to the age of the member on the date as from which he elects to pay contributions by the number of years of his prior service by paying instead for a limited term of years an annuity certain of such amount as the Actuary shall certify to be the equivalent of the part of his residual contribution so commuted, and the member may commute that part of his residual contribution which is equivalent to a rate calculated by multiplying the rate shown in Table No. 2 according to his age on the date as from which he elects to pay contributions by the number of years of his prior service in respect of which he elects to contribute by paying instead a lump sum of such amount as the Actuary shall certify to be the equivalent of the part of the residual contribution so commuted.

(d) If a contributing member who was in the service of the Board at the date of the confirmation of the Scheme by the Minister elects, with the consent of the Committee, at a date subsequent to the date on which he joins the Scheme, to contribute in respect of the whole or part of his prior service he shall pay either a lump sum on so electing, or additional contributions during the remaining period of his service with the Board up to his normal retiring date or earlier date of retirement. The amount of the lump sum or of the additional contributions shall be determined by the Committee.

(e) Where a male contributing member is entitled to reckon for superannuation benefits prior service in respect of which the Board has paid contributions, the contributions shown in Table No. 1 shall, in calculating the total joint contribution of the Board and of the member in respect of prior and subsequent service, be reduced by the amount shown in Table No. 1 (A) according to the age of the member at the date as from which he elects to pay contributions and the number of years of his prior service.

( f ) If a contributing member pays contributions in respect of the whole or part of his prior service and if the sum of one-half of his total prior service and one-half of the period of prior service in respect of which he pays contributions and the period of his subsequent service which would be reckonable if he remained in the service of the Board until normal retiring date exceed 40 years, the total joint contribution of the Board and of the member shall be reduced by such amount as the Actuary shall certify to be appropriate.

(3) (a) The optional additional contributions of any contributing member, who shall, with the consent of the Committee, elect to contribute for the benefit hereinafter provided in paragraph (2) of Clause 47 at normal retiring date or on earlier retirement on account of failure of health, or on death before retirement shall be payable either in one lump sum of such amount as the Actuary shall certify to be appropriate, or by additional contributions spread over the remaining period of such contributing member's service with the Board up to the normal retiring date or earlier date of retirement on account of failure of health, or date of death, of such contributing member, and in the latter case the additional contributions shall depend upon the age of the member on the date as from which he elects to contribute for this benefit, and upon class service (technical, non-technical or female staff) and shall be paid at the rate per cent. of salary shown in Table No. 3 hereto. The Board shall, in respect of each contributing member who shall elect as expressed in this sub-paragraph, pay additional contributions to the Fund equal to the additional contributions of the member.

(b) If a contributing member who was in the service of the Board on the 1st April, 1943, elects, with the consent of the Committee, to contribute for the optional benefit hereinafter provided in paragraph (3) of Clause 47, and if from the date of his said election he elects to contribute in respect of the whole of his prior service in relation to the said benefit the additional contribution payable by the member shall depend on his age on the date as from which he elects to contribute for the said benefit and upon the number of years by which the sum of his prior service and subsequent service would exceed twenty if he remained in the service of the Board until normal retiring date and shall be paid at the rate per cent. of salary shown in Table 4 (a) or Table 4 (b) according to the class of service (male or female staff) of the member until such member's normal retiring date or earlier date of retirement from the service of the Board and no longer, and the Board shall contribute a like amount in respect of such member.

(c) (i) If a contributing member who was in the service of the Board on the 1st April, 1943, elects with the consent of the Committee, to contribute for the optional benefit hereinafter provided in paragraph (3) of Clause 47 and if from the date of his said election he does not elect in relation to the said benefit to contribute in respect of prior service or elects to contribute in respect of part only of his prior service the additional contribution payable by the member expressed as a percentage of salary shall be determined by deducting from the rate calculated in the manner described in the next preceding subparagraph the rate shown in the appropriate section of Table 4 according to the age of the member on his aforesaid date of election and one-half of the number of years of his prior service in respect of which he does not elect to contribute, and such contribution shall continue to be paid until the member's normal retiring date or earlier date of retirement from the service of the Board and no longer. The additional contribution payable by the Board in respect of a member who shall elect in the manner expressed in this sub-paragraph shall be calculated in the manner described in the next preceding sub-paragraph of this clause and shall be payable until the member's normal retiring date or earlier date of retirement from the service of the Board and no longer.

(ii) If a contributing member who was in the service of the Board on the 1st April, 1943, elects, with the consent of the Committee, to contribute for the optional benefit hereinafter provided in paragraph (3) of Clause 47 and if from a date subsequent to the date of his said election he elects to contribute in relation to the said benefit in respect of the whole or part of his prior service he shall pay during the remaining period of his service with the Board up to his normal retiring date or earlier date of retirement such additional contributions as shall be determined by the Committee.

(d) If a contributing member who entered the service of the Board after the 1st April, 1943, elects, with the consent of the Committee, to contribute for the optional benefit hereinafter provided in paragraph (5) of Clause 47 the additional contribution payable by the member shall depend on his age on the date as from which he elects to contribute for the said benefit and upon the number of years by which his subsequent service would exceed thirty years if he remained in the service of the Board until normal retiring date and shall be paid at the rate per cent. of salary shown in Table 4 (a) or Table 4 (b) according to the class of service (male or female staff) of the member until such member's normal retiring date or earlier date of retirement from the service of the Board and no longer, and the Board shall contribute a like amount in respect of such member.

(4) When a contributing member is absent on leave at reduced pay or has been seconded to another employment with the consent of the Board, there shall continue to be payable contributions of the full amount which would have been payable had the member not been so absent or seconded."

Amendment of Clause 34.

8. Clause 34 shall be amended by deleting paragraph (iv) and substituting the following paragraph :

" (iv) Option of a sum or sums as hereinafter provided in Clause 47 payable at normal retiring age or on earlier retirement on account of failure of health, or on death before retirement."

Amendment of Clause 38.

9. Clause 38 shall be amended by deleting the second paragraph and substituting the following :—

" Provided that in the event of a pensioner dying within five years of the date of his retirement payment of his pension shall be continued to his legal personal representative until the completion of five years from the said date of retirement, if, but only if, the pensioner had not exercised the option hereinafter provided in Clause 49 hereof, but in reckoning the said period of five years any period of service with the Board subsequent to the member's normal retiring date shall be excluded. Provided further that, if requested by the legal personal representative so to do, the Committee may, if they think fit, commute the balance so payable for a single payment of such amount as the Actuary shall certify to be fair and reasonable."

Amendment of Clause 42.

10. Clause 42 shall be deleted and the following clause substituted :—

" 42.—(1) In the event of the death whilst in the service of the Board of a contributing member who has not exercised the option hereinafter provided by Clause 49, there shall be paid to his legal personal representative, whichever of the following amounts is the greatest :—

(a) a sum equal to one year's salary at the time of death and, if the member has paid contributions in respect of prior service, and has commuted part of his contributions by making instead a single payment, a sum equal to the amount of the single payment with compound interest thereon at 3 per cent. and, if the member has paid contributions in respect of prior service and has not commuted part of his contributions in the manner aforesaid, a sum which bears to the amount of his total contributions in respect of prior and subsequent service with compound interest thereon at 3 per cent. the same ratio as a rate calculated by multiplying the rate shown in Table No. 2 according to his age on the date as from which he elected to pay contributions in respect of prior service by the number of years of prior service in respect of which he has contributed bears to the total rate at which he has contributed in respect of prior and subsequent service, or,

(b) a sum equal to the amount of his total contributions in respect of prior and subsequent service with compound interest thereon at 3 per cent., or

(c) such sum as the Actuary shall certify to be equivalent to the present value of the payment for a period of five years of the pension (if any) to which the member would have been entitled if he had retired on account of failure of health on the day of his death.

(2) In the event of the death whilst in the service of the Board of a contributing member who has exercised the option provided by Clause 49 there shall be paid, as the Committee may think fit, either

(a) to his legal personal representative a sum calculated in the same manner as is provided in paragraph (1) of this clause, or

(b) to the named dependant an annual payment for such period and of the same amount as the pension to which the said dependant would have been entitled if the member had retired on account of failure of health on the day of his death.

(3) If a member who has been retained in the service of the Board, or who has been re-employed by the Board, subsequent to normal retiring date dies during such period of retention or re-employment by the Board there shall be paid to his legal representatives or to his wife or other named dependant as the case may be, such sums or sum as would have been payable under Clause 38 or Clause 49 if the member had retired on the date of his death.

(4) In addition to the benefit provided under one or other of the next preceding paragraphs of this Clause there shall be paid to the legal personal representative the benefit or benefits (if any) payable under Clause 47 hereof, provided the member shall not have received payment of the said benefit or benefits during his lifetime."

Amendment of Clause 46.

11. Clause 46 shall be amended by

(A) deleting paragraph (2) and substituting the following paragraph :

" (2) If a member ceases to be employed by the Board before normal retiring date for any reason other than misconduct or failure of health and such person is subsequently re-employed by the Board, and such person has continued his membership of the Scheme, or has been re-admitted to membership, the contributions payable by such person and by the Board in respect of such person shall, as from the date as from which he elects to resume payment of contributions, be at such a rate as the Actuary shall certify to be appropriate, and as from the said date the member shall be entitled to receive out of the Fund :—

(a) such benefits as under this Scheme would be payable to a member who first joined the Scheme on the date as from which the member resumes payment of contributions, and

(b) Where such member is, by virtue of paragraph 17 of Clause 1, entitled to reckon for superannuation benefits service in the employment of the Board prior to the hereinbefore mentioned cessation of employment, such additional pension benefit as is equivalent to the amount by which the pension payable under Clause 35 would be increased if the said period of service were added to the period of the member's service subsequent to the date of his re-employment."

(B) adding the following paragraph :—

" (4) Any person who was a member of the Scheme prior to ceasing to be employed by the Board for any reason other than misconduct or failure of health and who has left his contributions in the Fund or has repaid with interest at such rate as the Committee may prescribe any sum paid to him in respect of his contributions with or without interest thereon, shall, on re-employment by the Board be eligible for re-admission to the Scheme whether he is re-employed in a capacity the same as or different from that in which he was previously employed."

Amendment of Clause 47.

12. Clause 47 shall be deleted and the following clause substituted :—

" 47.—(1) In this clause the expression " inclusive service " means the sum of a member's subsequent service and one half of the total number of years of his prior service and one half of the number of years (if any) of his prior service in respect of which he elects to contribute in relation to the benefit hereinafter provided in paragraph (3) of this clause.

(2) It shall be optional for each contributing member to contribute towards the provision at normal retiring date, or on earlier retirement due to failure of health, or on death before retirement, of the payment of a sum equivalent to one year's salary at the full annual rate payable at the date when payment of this benefit becomes due. This option may be availed of by a member at the time of joining the Scheme or, with the consent of the Committee, at a later date.

(3) It shall be optional for each contributing member who was in the service of the Board at the 1st April, 1943, and who is or becomes a contributor under the provisions of paragraph (2) of this clause to contribute also, if the Committee shall so consent, towards the provision of the payment at normal retiring date of an additional sum equivalent to one-thirtieth of one year's salary at the full annual rate payable at the normal retiring date multiplied by the number of years by which the member's inclusive service exceeds twenty years.

(4) If a contributing member who was contributing for the benefit provided by paragraph (3) of this clause retires from the service of the Board on account of failure of health or dies in the service of the Board prior to normal retiring date there shall be paid to him or to his legal personal representative as the case may be whichever of the following amounts shall be the greater :—

(a) a sum equal to the amount of his total contributions under sub-paragraphs (b) or (c) of paragraph (3) of Clause 30 in respect of the benefit provided by paragraph (3) of this clause with compound interest thereon at 3 per cent., or,

(b) a sum equal to one-thirtieth of one year's salary at the full annual rate payable at the date of the member's retirement or death multiplied by the number of years by which the member's inclusive service exceeds twenty years, together with a sum which bears to the amount of the member's total contributions for the benefit provided by paragraph (3) of this clause with compound interest thereon at 3 per cent. the same proportion as the number of additional years which the member would have been entitled to reckon if he had remained in the service of the Board until normal retiring date bears to the total number of years of inclusive service in excess of twenty years which he would have been entitled to reckon if he had remained in the service of the Board until normal retiring date.

(5) It shall be optional for each contributing member who entered the service of the Board after the 1st April, 1943 and who is or becomes a contributor under the provisions of paragraph (2) of this clause to contribute also, if the Committee shall so consent, towards the provision of the payment at normal retiring date of an additional sum equivalent to one-thirtieth of one year's salary at the full annual rate payable at the normal retiring date multiplied by the number of years by which the member's subsequent service exceeds thirty years.

(6) If a contributing member who was contributing for the benefit provided by paragraph (5) of this clause retires from the service of the Board on account of failure of health or dies in the service of the Board prior to normal retiring date there shall be paid to him or to his legal personal representative as the case may be whichever of the following amounts shall be the greater :—

(a) a sum equal to the amount of his total contributions under sub-paragraph (d) of paragraph (3) of Clause 30 in respect of the benefit provided by paragraph (5) of this clause with compound interest thereon at 3 per cent., or,

(b) a sum equal to one thirtieth of one year's salary at the full annual rate payable at the date of the member's retirement or death multiplied by the number of years by which the member's subsequent service exceeds thirty years, together with a sum which bears to the amount of the member's total contributions for the benefit provided by paragraph (5) of this clause with compound interest thereon at 3 per cent. the same proportion as the number of additional years which the member would have been entitled to reckon if he had remained in the service of the Board until normal retiring date bears to the number of years of subsequent service in excess of thirty years which he would have been entitled to reckon if he had remained in the service of the Board until normal retiring date.

(7) The benefit payable under paragraphs (3), (4), (5) or (6) of this clause shall in no case exceed fifteen thirtieths of one year's salary."

Amendment of Clause 49.

13. Clause 49 shall be deleted and the following clause substituted :—

" 49. (1) A contributing member may at any time before normal retiring date, but not after he has ceased to be in the service of the Board, by notice in writing (hereinafter called " the uotice ") to the Committee, elect to surrender a portion of the pension to which he would be entitled under clause 35 hereof and in lieu of the portion so surrendered there shall be payable either

(a) to his wife or such other dependant named by him in the notice as the Committee may approve a deferred pension, equal in amount to the balance of the pension not surrendered by him, commencing on the day after the date of his death and continuing for the remainder of the lifetime of his said wife or said dependant as the case may be, or

(b) to his wife or such other dependant named by him in the notice as the Committee may approve, a deferred pension, equal in amount to one-third of the balance of the pension not surrendered by him, commencing on the day after the date of his death and continuing for the remainder of the lifetime of his said wife or said dependant, provided that if his wife or dependant shall die before him but after he has ceased to be in the service of the Board the balance of the pension payable to him for the remainder of his lifetime shall be reduced by one-third, or

(c) to such dependant named by him in the notice as the Committee may approve, a deferred pension, equal in amount to the balance of the pension not surrendered by him, commencing on the day after the date of his death and continuing until the date of the death of such dependant or the date on which such dependant attains a specified age, whichever of the latter two dates is the earlier.

The proportion of the pension to be surrendered by a member who elects in one of the three manners hereinbefore provided shall be determined by the Actuary whose determination shall be final and conclusive.

(2) Any such notice may, with the consent of the Committee, be revoked by the contributing member at any time prior to his ceasing to be in the service of the Board, and in the event of the death of his wife or other nominated dependant as aforesaid prior to his so ceasing such notice shall, ipso facto, be deemed to be revoked as if the same had not been given.

(3) In the event of the contributing member naming in the notice a dependant of whom the Committee do not approve such notice shall, ipso facto, be deemed to be revoked as if the same had not been given.

(4) In the event of the Committee failing within forty days of the receipt of the notice by the Committee to notify in writing the contributing member of the fact that the Committee do not approve of the dependant named by him in the notice the Committee shall be deemed to have approved such dependant."

Amendment of Clause 55.

14. Clause 55 shall be amended by deleting from paragraph (1) sub-paragraph (d) and substituting the following sub-paragraph :—

" (d) As from the material date such person shall be entitled to reckon for superannuation benefits under this Scheme the same service as he would have been entitled to reckon if he had been admitted to this Scheme on the date on which he was admitted to the Other Scheme, and as from the material date the contributions payable by such person and by the Board in respect of such persons shall be at such rates as the Actuary shall determine having regard to the appropriate parts of the Manual Workers Sum."

Table No. 1 (b).

RATE OF CONTRIBUTION PER CENT. OF SALARY.

TABLE No. 4 (a)

RATES OF CONTRIBUTION PER CENT. OF SALARY

MALES

Table No. 4 (b)

RATES OF CONTRIBUTION PER CENT. OF SALARY.

Females.

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 5th day of November, 1952.

(Signed) SEÁN F. LEMASS,

Minister for Industry and Commerce.