Civil Service Act 1865 (SA)

No. 9.

Atr Act to amend the Law relatinq to the retirement qf O$cers i?r the

Civil Service, and jbr other pzmposes.

[Assented to, 16th Murch, 1866.1

Preamble,

W HEREAS it is expedient to amend an Act No. 12 of 1860, intituled "An Act to repeal an Act No. 21 of 1854, intituled

'An Act to provide for the retirement of Officers in the Civil

Service,' and to provide for the settlement of all claims arising under the said Act, and far other purposes" aid to make provision for officers on the fixed establislirnents of the Civil Service of the said Province who may die while in such service-Be it therefore Enacted, by the Governor-in-Chief of the Province of South Aus- tralia, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council

I Fixed

and House of Assembly of the said Province, in this present

Parliament assembled, as follows:

1. This Act may be cited, for all purposes, as " The Civil Service Amendment Act, 1865-6," Short title.

2. Sections 5 and 6 of the said Act, No, 13 of 1860, are hereby Repeal.

repealed, except as to any matter or thing heretofore lawfully done

thereunder.

3. The legal personal representatives of every officer on the Fixed removal 06 cers ou from death office or to

Establishments of the Civil Service of the said Province, not being a rnOnth'a

Judge or Responsible Minister of the Crown, who since the first day a n l w t h y hnve forevelr been in year the

of January, 1866, has died, or who may hereafter die while in such a,,;,.

service, although his death may have occurred, or may occur, during

the abssnce of mch officer on leave; and every officer on the said

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Civil Sewice Amendment Ac t .1865-6.

Fixed Establishments, not being such Judge or Responsible Minister, on being removed from office, or on being permitted to resign his -

office 06- account of illness, infirm abolition of office, or

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anv other cause whatever except m1 shall, with the consent

of #the Governor in ~xecutive' Council, be kntitl& to and shall be paid by the Treasurer a sum equal to one month's salary for every year that any such officer may have served on the Fixed f3stablish- ments of the said Civil Service; and the average salary received by any such .officer during thc thsec years ncst prcccding such death, resignation, or removal, from office shall be talicn as the salary of such officer, for the purpose of calculating the amount to be paid

by the said Treasurer, as aforesaid: Provided that no such officer

shall be permitted to resign his office, except upon a medical cer-

tificate of illness, infirmity, or age, until he shall have attained the

age of sixty years, or have been twenty years in the Civil Service of

t	th~sj 'lilPi.~vinbe: Provided also, that the personal representatives o f any officer who shall have been called* upon or ;equested to resign his office by the Governor in Executive Council, and who
dmll have neglected or refused so to do shall not be entitled to be
paid any sum of money by virtue hereof.

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tive Council to decide . 4, All questio~s as to compensation arising out of the next

rll pestionr of oom- preceding clause shall be decided by. the Governor in Executive

pepnation,	Council.
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paid t o be annually 5. A statement of all s m s paid by the Treasurer under the

laid boforoParliamk authority of this Act shall be annually laid bcfore Yarliament.

I n the name and on behalf of the Queen I hereby assent to

this Act.

D. DALY, Governor.

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