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SUPERANNUATION ACT 1876
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CHAPTER LIII.
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An Act to make further provision respecting the Superannuation Allowance to be granted to Civil Servants serving in unhealthy Climates. [11th August 1876.]
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[Preamble recites 38 & 39 Vict. c. 4.]
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Unhealthy Places.
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Determination of places to be deemed unhealthy.
22 Vict. c. 26.
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1. The Treasury may from time to time by order declare that any country or place therein named shall be deemed, and the same shall thereupon be deemed, for the purposes of the Superannuation Act, 1859, and this Act, to be an unhealthy place.
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The Treasury may from time to time by order revoke or vary an order previously made under this section, but the amount of superannuation compensation gratuity or other allowance to be granted to any person serving, before the date of the order of revocation or alteration in the unhealthy place affected thereby, shall be the same as if it had not been made.
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Special rate of pension to person who has served in unhealthy place.
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2. For the purpose of reckoning the amount of any superannuation, compensation, gratuity, or other allowance to be granted under the Superannuation Act, 1859, to a person who has served, in an established capacity in the permanent civil service of the State, two years’ service in an unhealthy place shall be reckoned as service for three years, and service in an unhealthy place for any greater or less period than two years shall be reckoned in the like proportion.
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Provided that nothing in this section—
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(1.) Shall alter so much of section two of the Superannuation Act, 1859, as requires a service of ten years before an annual superannuation allowance can be granted; or
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(2.) Shall, without the consent of the Treasury, apply to a person who was residing in an unhealthy place when he entered the permanent civil service of the State.
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Supplemental.
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Orders to be laid before Parliament.
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3. Every order under this Act shall be laid before both Houses of Parliament in accordance with section thirteen of the Superannuation Act, 1859.
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Commencement.
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4. This Act shall apply to persons who have retired from the public service since the seventeenth day of February one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five.
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Construction and short title.
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5. This Act may be cited as the Superannuation Act, 1876, and shall be construed as one with the Superannuation Act, 1859, and that Act and this Act may be cited together as the Superannuation Acts, 1859 and 1876.
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[S. 6 rep. 46 & 47 Vict. c. 39 (S.L.R.)]
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