Pensions Validating Act of 1902 (2 Edw VII No. 22) (Qld)

MINING...LPENSIONS. 2 Enw. VII. No. 22, 1902. Pensions Validatin.1J Act. ---- - - ~- - -- - - expended in or in connection with the sinking of a shaft in the land comprised in the lease aforesaid moneys amounting to five hundred pounds or upwards he shall certify in writing accordingly, and thereupon the Owners shall be entitled to withdraw from the said Bank the sum .so certified to have been expended, or if the balance l'emaining on deposit does not amount to the sum so certi- fied then the balance remaining on deposit, and so from time to time until all the moneys so deposited have been. withdrawn pursuant to such certificates. If the Owners make default in compliance with any of the provisions of this Act, the alHount of money, if any, then remaining on deposit in the said Bank and held by the Secretary for Mines by way of security as aforesaid shall, without any authority or process other than this Act, be liable to forfeiture. 8581 PENSIONS. An Act to Validate certain Pensions Granted to 2 Edw. VIr. Officers formerly in the Public Service of the N; ~ ! 2. State • PENSIONS VALIDATING [ASSENTED TO 26TH DECEMBER, 1902.] ACT OF 1902. "l"XTIIEREAS by section eight of" The Civil Service l'reamble. " " Act of 1863"* it is provided that when the services of any officer in the Public Service to whom that Act applies are dispensed with, not through any fault of his own, he shall receive compensation according to a scale prescribed by the said section: And whereas by section seventeen of the said Act it is further provided that certain sums shall be deducted from the salaries of officers of the Public Service to whom the said Act applies, and paid to the Con- solidated Revenue, and that every officer from whom such deduction has been made, and who has attained the age of sixty years, or is incapacitated through illness, shall retire from active service, and shall receive a retiring allowance according to a scale prescribed by that section: And whereas it has been found expedient to dispense with the services of certain of the said officers, whose names are mentioneil in the Schedule to this Act, before ,those officers have re~ pectively attained the age of sixty years: ------ ------------- - - - - - - - - * 27 Vie. No. 18, S1tpTa, page 122. y

8582 PENSIONS.. Pensions Validatin.q Act. 2 EDw. VII. No. 22, 1902. And whereas agreements have been made, with the sanction of the Governor in Council, between the Minis- terial heads of the Departments and the said several officers, that upon the retirement of the said officers they shall receive annual retiring allowances of the amounts specified in the Schedule, being amounts not exceeding in . amount the allowances to which they would have been . entitled under the said Act if they had attained the age of sixty years at the time of their retirement: . And whereas it is desirable that the said several agreements should be ratified and confirmed: Be it therefore enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legis- lative Council and Legislative Assembly of Queensland in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows : - Short title. 1. This Act mav be cited as " The Pensions Validat- ing Act of 190~ . " ~ Retiring : ~ ~ ho~ f! ~ . 2. From .the date of the passing of this Act, the Treasurer may, from time to time during the respective lives of the officers mentioned in the Schedule to this Act, pay to each of the said officers an annual retiring allowance of the amount set against his name in such Schedule, and all receipts given by such officers or on their behalf respectively therefor shall be good and valid acquittances and discharges for the several amounts therein expressed to have been received. Pavment! 3. All payments of money by way of retiring v ah a · lt ~ d a a d t y edm. ade a • llowance heretofore made to the several officers mentio . ned III the Schedule to this .do ct at the rate set agamst their names respectively shall be deemed to have beetl lawfully made, and all reeeipljS given by them or on their behalf respectively therefor shall be good and valid acquittances and discharges for the several amounts therein expressed to have been received. Name of Olllcer. SOHEDULE. Olllce formerly held by him. I Rate of Retirin: Allowance. William Finucane '" Police Magistrate, Oharle- £333 6s. Sd. per I ville annum. Thomas Kirwan Persse Ohief Olerk, Survey Depart- £317 16s. 8d. per ment I annum.